Product Description

ExpressCard Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio Notebook

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2680 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Creative Labs
• Model: 70SB071000000
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds

Features

• Make your MP3s sound better than CDs with Xtreme Fidelity. Enjoy headphone surround that sounds like a room full of speakers. Hear immersive EAX® sound effects in your games.
• Play DVDs and enjoy cinematic movie sound with PowerDVD®. Connect to multichannel speakers with the Surround Sound Upgrade Kit (sold separately).
• X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity audio technology intelligently restores the highs and lows for rich, crystal clear music playback.
• Restore detail and vibrance to your MP3s. Hear headphone surround that sounds like multichannel speakers.Turn stereo music and movies into surround.Enjoy Realistic sound effects in games.
• Experience cinematic surround sound from DVD movies

Customer Reviews

It's just so 'meh'
Short Part:
Pros:
-The price is 'Meh'.
-Pulls sound processing power away from the CPU (if you have onboard sound).
-Delivers powerful sound in very RARE situations.
-The seller was amazon certified.

Cons:
-An $85 notebook card for $20 desktop card performance! Seriously!
-You have to shell out another $30+ for any expansions!
-I don't have onboard sound, I have a full fledged internal sound card!
-Lacks many of the additional features of its desktop equivalents including EAX.


Long Part
Pros:
With the ridiculous $40 shelled out for the 7.1 expansion bay, I was able to make my laptop completely 7.1 capable, which was a good thing, because I just happened to have a pair or crappy creative 7.1 speakers handy! (it supplies 7.1)

Cons:
This has to be one of the most mediocre sounds cards I've ever owned. It literally does the absolute basics required of a soundcard and completely manages to leave out all of the cool additional features of it's desktop "equivalent". So typical of creative, to supply the bare minimum to their customers and charge outrageous prices. I thought I would be able to game successfully with this expansion card. All that ultimately happened, was that I uninstalled everything creative related, and switched back to using my internal Realtek sound card. It way not be 7.1, but it sounds a hell-of-alot better going through the speakers than this crap. The only, and I mean THE ONLY thing saving this from a 1 star rating is that it at least allowed for 7.1 audio if you buy the expansion.

Awesome..
The sound quality is really good and I enjoy watching movies and playing games with this sound card. Well, the actual reason I got this card is because my laptop's internal sound card got damaged and this one looked good enough to server the purpose. However, one problem I face very frequently is my laptop hangs while watching videos, audio or playing games and I do a force restart. There may be many reasons behind this but the overall the card is good.

Outstanding Performance
Execelent And High Quality sound, very easy to install and the performance of your notebook was increased, with the combination od the 5.1 or 7.1 sorround sound speakers.
It had manny options to set up your type and quality of sound, for games and music