shuttleboi
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From my understanding, the X-Fi has two benefits: (1) improved audio (e.g. better positional sound); and (2) offloading of audio-related computation from the CPU to the soundcard for improved gaming performance. See this link on CPU performance with different sound cards. Note that those tests were with the X-Fi Xtreme Music; I suspect that the Elite Pro model would have much better performance.
Originally Posted by MikoLayer I am genuinely curious about it, does the performance differ significantly even when you play w/o EAX? I am probably wrong, but I thought EAX wasnt all that for use with headphones and has to be paired up with multichannel speaker system to show its potential (which a lot of people do not have). Would the games without EAX or HRTF via headphones benefit greatly from having a latest creative card? Before I start recommending people what to get, I may as well do some homework first |
From my understanding, the X-Fi has two benefits: (1) improved audio (e.g. better positional sound); and (2) offloading of audio-related computation from the CPU to the soundcard for improved gaming performance. See this link on CPU performance with different sound cards. Note that those tests were with the X-Fi Xtreme Music; I suspect that the Elite Pro model would have much better performance.