Audio cards - 6 articles

The combination of Creative chip and Auzentech PCB magic was been a success before with the likes of the X-Fi Prelude 7.1. That card fitted a normal PCI slot but today we have its successor which slots into the PCI-e instead. I give you the Auzentech X-Fi Forte 7.1; can this card carry on the success of its predecessor and even go further in terms of sound quality and performance? Time to find ...

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So you want a gaming sound card? Creative it is then. Ah, see that’s where you are wrong. Creative have recently released their X-Fi chip to Auzentech who have worked their PCB trickery into producing a card with the good aspects of the X-Fi with the window open to use Dolby Digital Live, DTS Interactive, and DTS NeoPC in the future. Considering as this was one of the major complaints with the ...

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Club 3D have a fairly large array of sound cards, but now they have the Theatron Agrippa which looks a hell of a lot like the AuzenTech Xplosion card. In fact the specs, the drivers and the chipset are the same. Read on for more…

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Whether you love or hate them, Creative has become the most well-known PC audio add-in card supplier. While their X-Fi range of cards pleased many gamers, the lack of Vista drivers caused an equal quantity of miffed customers. Auzentech are now out to prove there are alternatives out there, and they are even releasing an X-Fi chip card soon. Today however I have their HDA X plosion 7.1 DTS ...

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Creative own the audio market. When people say PC audio, the reply is Creative. No one has really had the balls to try and take them on in the gaming audio arena. That is, until now. Step in the Razer Barracuda AC-1, built by and for gamers.

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Fata1ty branded stuff has never really caught my eye, and I’ve never used any of ‘his’ products. But today, I have the privilege of checking out the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty edition. Hopefully, this should change my mind about his endorsements.

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