Sound Blaster X-Fi™ Fatal1ty

Jon G · Dec 5, 2006

I have a Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty sound card, and I'm trying to hook it ut to my Bose Lifestyle 48 Series III DVD home entertainment system using a fiber optic cable. I contacted Bose tech support ,and thy told me it should be working you can hear a little sound but not much. Eany one have eany ideas?

FLY3R · Dec 5, 2006

i have had the worst luck trying to get my sound cards hocked up to a recever, i have a problem with getting the sub out put to work when i use mutli channel in. I bet you can turn up the volume all the way, and make sure its selected to use digital out only. Other than that try updating drivers. I have these sound cards, i cant get any of them to work its compleat bullshit.

JC316 · Dec 5, 2006

My realtek has volume control for the outputs, namely my coax output. If it is turned down or off, I wouldn't get any sound at all.

Jon G · Dec 6, 2006

FLY3R said:
i have had the worst luck trying to get my sound cards hocked up to a recever, i have a problem with getting the sub out put to work when i use mutli channel in. I bet you can turn up the volume all the way, and make sure its selected to use digital out only. Other than that try updating drivers. I have these sound cards, i cant get any of them to work its compleat bullshit.

Well I finally got to talk to tech support at Creative ,and they told me that card will not work well with my home entertainment system ,and suggested the Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro . So I'm going to return the card I have and get that one I hope it works its $100 more but they say you can tell the difference

Deleted member 24505 · Dec 6, 2006

they would say you can hear the differance tho' for an extra 100 bucks.

Jon G · Dec 7, 2006

tigger69 said:
they would say you can hear the difference tho' for an extra 100 bucks.

Well I also have a friend that has one, and he said it a good one to also I talked to some people online how recomended it. Do you have eany input?

DaMulta · Dec 7, 2006

I love the X-Fi line when it works right. Worth every penny to me.

Deleted member 24505 · Dec 7, 2006

i'm not knocking it,i wish i could afford one.i'll probs end up with an extreme music or the gamer one oem.which would you say out of them two tho'?.the're both about £60 ish oem.

DaMulta · Dec 7, 2006

Same card only the gamers have ram on it. I went for the fatilty because of the cd-rom bay and the memory.

Jon G · Dec 7, 2006

tigger69 said:
i'm not knocking it,i wish i could afford one.i'll probs end up with an extreme music or the gamer one oem.which would you say out of them two tho'?.the're both about £60 ish oem.

I would go for the Xtreme gamer Geared for gaming with hardware-accelerated game audio and Xtreme Fidelity sound quality.

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Processor	Core 2 duo X6800 1-SwiftTech APOGEE
Motherboard	Asus P5N32-E SLI 1-SwiftTech MCW30 for chipset water-blocks
Cooling	Water chiller Air 7-120mm fans 1-10" 660cfm ac fan total 1200 cfm
Memory	4 gigs XMS2 DOMINATOR 1111Mhz 2-Koolance RAM-30-V06
Video Card(s)	2 GeForce 8800 GTX 2-Danger Den 8800GTX water blocks
Storage	2 raptorX 150 2 WD Caviar 500gigs 2-Danger Den Aua-Drive water blocks
Display(s)	LG 37" LCD HDTV LCD and 42 in plasma
Case	custom made
Audio Device(s)	Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro Bose 7.1 surround sound
Power Supply	Turbo-Cool 1KW water cooled custom made water blocks
Software	MS XP Pro 64

Processor	Core 2 duo X6800 1-SwiftTech APOGEE
Motherboard	Asus P5N32-E SLI 1-SwiftTech MCW30 for chipset water-blocks
Cooling	Water chiller Air 7-120mm fans 1-10" 660cfm ac fan total 1200 cfm
Memory	4 gigs XMS2 DOMINATOR 1111Mhz 2-Koolance RAM-30-V06
Video Card(s)	2 GeForce 8800 GTX 2-Danger Den 8800GTX water blocks
Storage	2 raptorX 150 2 WD Caviar 500gigs 2-Danger Den Aua-Drive water blocks
Display(s)	LG 37" LCD HDTV LCD and 42 in plasma
Case	custom made
Audio Device(s)	Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro Bose 7.1 surround sound
Power Supply	Turbo-Cool 1KW water cooled custom made water blocks
Software	MS XP Pro 64

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