The essential audio upgrade for serious PC gamers. Get the fastest performance and the most intense, realistic audio in your games. Sound Blaster® X-Fi Xtreme Gamer - Fatal1ty Professional Series is the essential audio upgrade for serious PC gamers. Endorsed by the world's leading pro gamer, it's the most powerful sound card ever, accelerating Direct X, OpenAL and EAX 5.0 to give the highest quality cinematic audio at faster frame rates, with 64MB of X-Ram to ensure fast loading of high-quality sounds.

Game Mode dedicates the processor 100% to game audio, powering X-Fi CMSS-3D to give ultra-realistic surround sound over stereo headphones for LAN or late-night gaming. In addition, X-Fi 24-bit Crystalizer restores sparkle to low quality audio, upgrading games, MP3, DIVX and TV audio to 24-bit quality.

Designed specifically for gamers, the Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Professional Series sound card delivers the fastest audio performance and the most intense, realistic sound in all your games. Plus it features X-RAM for an even bigger quality and performance boost in games with X-RAM support. It's Sound Blaster...on steroids!

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Features

X-Fi, the world's most powerful audio processor, delivers faster frame rates in games with hardware accelerated Direct X, OpenAL and EAX 5.0.

X-Fi CMSS-3D Headphone delivers incredible surround sound over stereo headphones for gaming, movies and music.

X-Fi CMSS-3D Surround up-mixes audio and video to 5.1 or 7.1 surround.

X-Fi 24-bit Crystalizer makes all audio sound better, enhancing games, MP3/WMA, streaming audio and video, TV and radio, DivX and DVD movies.

X-Fi Active Modal Architecture with ‘Entertainment', ‘Gaming' and ‘Audio Creation' modes dedicates the processor to the task at hand, with an easy-to-use interface for each mode.

64MB of X-RAM for fast loading of high-quality audio samples.

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Basic Requirements

Windows XP:

Genuine Intel® Pentium® III 1 GHz, AMD® 1 GHz processor or faster

Intel, AMD or 100% compatible motherboard chipset

Microsoft® Windows® XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) or Window XP Pro x64

256MB RAM

600MB of free hard disk space

Available PCI 2.1 slot for the audio card

CD-ROM/CD-RW or CD/DVD-ROM required for software installation

Graphics card with DirectX® 9 and OpenGL® compliant 3D graphics accelerator

Internet connection is required to obtain free PowerDVD players with Dolby® Digital and DTS™ decoding

Windows Vista™:

Genuine Intel® Pentium® III 1 GHz, AMD® 1 GHz processor or faster

Intel, AMD or 100% compatible motherboard chipset

Microsoft Windows Vista™ 32-bit or 64-bit

512 MB RAM

600 MB of free hard disk space

Available PCI 2.1 compliant slot (PCI 2.2 and 2.3 also supported)

Headphones or amplified speakers (available separately)

CD-ROM drive installed

Internet connection is required to obtain free PowerDVD players with Dolby® Digital and DTS™ decoding