Product Description

Few recognize that, with the PC's improved graphics performance, sound cards only barely matched audio performance demands. Here's a sound upgrade card that greatly improves your sonic experience. Chosen by professional gamers, the PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatality Professional Series sound card delivers the ultimate PC gaming audio experience. You'll hear realistic EAX 5 sound effects and 3D positional audio that's so accurate you can locate opponents by sound - even over headphones. Plus, get unbeatable performance in your games with hardware accelerated audio and X-RAM. Cinematic surround sound from DVD movies - Watch your DVDs in cinematic surround sound with PowerDVD software featuring DTS and Dolby Digital-EX decoding 24-bit Analog-to-Digital conversion of analog inputs at 96kHz sample rate 24-bit Digital-to-Analog conversion of digital sources at 96kHz to analog 7.1 speaker output 24-bit Digital-to-Analog conversion of stereo digital sources at 192kHz to stereo output 16-bit to 24-bit recording sampling rates - 8,11.025,16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1, 48 and 96kHz ASIO 2.0 support at 16bit/44.1kHz, 16-bit/48kHz, 24-bit/44.1kHz 24-bit/48kHz and 24-bit/96kHz with direct monitoring Enhanced SoundFont support at up to 24-bit resolution 64MB of X-RAM Analog output Signal-to-Noise Ratio (A-weighted) - 109dB Connectivity - Line in / Microphone in (shared 1/8 mini jack); Speaker out (4x 1/8 mini jacks); Optical out (TOSLINK); Optical in (TOSLINK); Intel HD Audio Compatible Front Panel Header (2x5pin) Requires available PCI-Express slot in desktop PC Speaker Support up to 7.1 speakers

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5873 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Creative Labs
• Model: SB0886
• Released on: 2008-06-10
• Dimensions: 7.90" h x 2.40" w x 11.20" l, .45 pounds

Features

• Accurate 3D positional audio
• Dolby Digital Live encoding - Connects directly to your home theater system through a single digital cable for compelling 5.1-surround sound.
• Hardware accelerated performance - Get unbeatable performance in your favorite games with hardware-accelerated audio that blows motherboard audio away
• X-RAM - Boost performance even further in games like Quake 4, Battlefield 2, Prey, Unreal Tournament 3 and others that take advantage of X-RAM
• Clearer voice chat - Plug in your headset or microphone and hear the difference. With high quality inputs and hardware audio processing, your teammates will hear you loud and clear

Amazon.com Product Description
Chosen by professional gamers, the PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series sound card delivers the ultimate PC gaming audio experience. You'll hear realistic EAX® 5 sound effects and 3D positional audio that's so accurate you can locate opponents by sound - even over headphones. Plus, get unbeatable performance in your games with hardware accelerated audio and X-RAM.

Realistic EAX® 5.0 sound effects in games Hear crackling gunfire and earth-shattering explosions, EAX® 5.0 delivers sound effects that pull you into the game.

Accurate 3D positional audio with X-Fi CMSS®-3D Locate enemies by sound alone - you’ll get amazing surround sound, even with normal stereo headphones.

Sound Blaster X-Fi is Fatal1ty's Choice for Audio! "When I'm competing I need top-notch performance and the most realistic sound to help me know where my opponents are and Sound Blaster X-Fi really delivers for me...there is nothing faster or better." Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel is the best-known professional gamer in the world with 38 1st place wins in nine years of tournament play.

Hardware accelerated performance
Get unbeatable performance in your favorite games with hardware accelerated audio that blows integrated motherboard audio away.

Clearer voice chat
Plug in your headset or microphone and hear the difference. With high quality inputs and hardware audio processing, your teammates will hear you loud and clear.

X-RAM
Boost performance even further in games like Quake 4, Battlefield 2, Prey, Unreal Tournament 3 and other popular titles that take advantage of X-Ram technology.

Dolby Digital Live encoding
Connects directly to your home theater system through a single digital cable for crisp 5.1 surround sound.

Record your own music
PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium has fantastic inputs and low-latency ASIO drivers for great music recording.

Championship Gaming Series™ (CGS) is the only worldwide professional video gaming league. Only the best gear is rigorously tested and approved by CGS for the highest level of professional gaming competition.

Cinematic surround sound from DVD movies

Watch your DVDs in cinematic surround sound with PowerDVD software featuring DTS™ and Dolby Digital®-EX decoding.

 

 

 

 

System Requirements

• Microsoft® Windows Vista® (Service Pack 1)
  or Windows® XP (x64, Service Pack 2 or Media Center Edition)
• Intel® Pentium® 4, AMD® Athlon™ or equivalent 1.6 GHz processor
• 256MB RAM (512MB for Windows Vista)
• 600MB of free hard disk space
• Available PCI Express® slot (x1, x4 or x16)
• CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
• Internet connection to download PowerDVD software

 

What's in the Box
PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium sound Card, Quick Start leaflet, Installation CD.

 

Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series Connectivity Chart

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Customer Reviews

Fantastic Sound Improvement - But The Installation ...!
Pros:

Upgraded from the Soundblaster Platinum because it started to inexplicable snap, crackle and pop intermittently. Hoping it was a speaker problem, I replaced those first (less expensive). (I suspect that "built-in" obsolescence was initiated with some of the latest drivers, but my therapist says it might just be a coincidence. Not too sure about that, so I fired the therapist.) Short story long, moved from X-Fi Platinum with 2.1 speaker system to X-Fi Titanium Pro with 2.0 speaker system and the sound difference is phenomenal! Not crazy about Creative Labs in general BUT, they're the 800-pound gorilla in the sound card field so watcha gonna do but swallow? Hard. Unreal amount of software and apps come with it (and I cannot believe reading these Goldilocks who complain it's either too much or not enough. I guess, in that respect, Creative Labs is damned if it does and damned if it doesn't.) but the minimal install is VERY reasonable.

Cons:

For the installation, please make sure to reserve at least an entire day, have an enormous supply of your favorite comfort foods and liquor handy, and a couple of handfuls of Xanax and/or Valium at the ready (or beforehand) because it is going to be a long and very frustrating haul! And I'm a relatively savvy, intelligent and technical guy. Had the temerity to first install the card in a PCI Express 16x slot because there was a little more room. Followed the instructions to the letter and installed the applications from the Creative Labs CD. Please MIND YOU! There is this Creative Labs habit to, during the installation of its applications and drivers, to take up the entire screen so you cannot get at anything behind it. Or, if it does not take up the entire screen, after the primary window has done whatever it has done doing, a secondary - much smaller screen - will be right behind the first one! Not that you would know, because it does NOT show up in the task bar, it does not show up in Task Manager so, like an idiot, you wait and wait and wait (that's where the comfort food comes in). Until it dawned on me to move the first screen out of the way (canNOT minimize it!) to see if there was anything hiding behind it. Needless to say, my French vocabulary has expanded tremendously today. But after all this frustration, only the Microsoft driver for (something along the lines of ...) advanced digital sound thingamayig (you see, the Xanax and liquor have taken their toll) would install and, despite numerous removals of this driver from Device Manager and numerous reboots, nothing changed. Took out my shotgun, re-opened my case and moved the card to the 1x PCI Express slot and it and I pretended that the previous four hours never happened. After roughly five (5) hours (and, yes, the typical install takes a long time to install too plus, you cannot just walk away because for every breath it takes with every application installation, it wants you to pat its hand at least three or four times and tell it, "It's okay!"), everything is finally working as advertised. But my nerves are raw.

WORKS GREAT-NO PROBLEMS
I installed this sound card in about 10 minutes,hooked all my power up,turned on the PC,when it booted Vista installed the driver without even running the software?I personnaly have had not 1 glitch with this card or the software and the sound is excellent.I only use this for music listening so I could not respond as too how well it works for gaming.

Activation ???
Superb Sound ! Worked great with Vista SP1. Installed easy. But Creative has lost me as a customer due to the activation required after installing sound card, and no MP3 recording support, only WMA out of the box. Come On Creative $9.99 for an MP3 encoder download (Creative MP3 Audio Pack)to rip mp3's.
Would have given 4 stars but Creative has gotten greedy.