Is this the same as an X-Fi Music?

[TooNice]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Creative-Sound...QQcmdZViewItem

Appart from the box, and perhaps warranty, what would I lose from bidding on this instead of buying on an X-Fi Extreme Music?
Would I be able to use this with a DAC?

 

[Sycraft]

Hmmm, I don't know. Seems a little, well, weird. That's not an Extreme Music, and some of the specs, the board layout doesn't match any of the retail X-Fis, and the specs they list don't match,like the 2MB of X-ram, the retail X-Fis have 64MB or 0MB, no inbetween, and the X-Fi isn't AC97 based.

Now that doesn't mean that Creative didn't make some different X-Fis only for systems integrators and such, but Id' be a little sceptical.

 

[jiiteepee]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sycraft Hmmm, I don't know. Seems a little, well, weird. That's not an Extreme Music, and some of the specs, the board layout doesn't match any of the retail X-Fis, and the specs they list don't match,like the 2MB of X-ram, the retail X-Fis have 64MB or 0MB, no inbetween, and the X-Fi isn't AC97 based. Now that doesn't mean that Creative didn't make some different X-Fis only for systems integrators and such, but Id' be a little sceptical.

Model SB0670 (as it says on description) is not listed on Creative Product database and the driver link given points to HP support pages.

Original XtremeMusic

X-Fi Card on eBay

It's from the current series, since there is this heatsink added for DSP. Cheap (plastic) jacks and some connectors moved.

So it seem to be an OEM (so it may be quite modified --> 2MB X-Ram added) version of X-Fi card ripped from some HP Pavilion d4296.se Desktop PC.


jiitee

 

[TooNice]

Thanks. Do you think that the optical out is still intact?

Would you pay more than 60% of the price of an Xtreme Music over that?

 

[Sycraft]

I do not believe that ANY X-Fis other than the Elite Pro have any optical out. They have digital out, but it's Coax. But yes, looks like the shared digital/line jack is on that card.

 

[TooNice]

Ahh ok thanks. Well, i am still a bit confused about the available connectors as I've posted here.

Can you still use that to connect to most DAC? What sort of cable do you need?

 

[marvin]

If your DAC has a coaxial digital input, you can connected it to the X-Fi through the microphone/digital out jack using a RCA -> 1/8" mono cable.

 

[lini]

TooNice: If you can get it for cheap (< 80 Euro), I'd say go for it. That obviously is an oem version customized for some system builder, as it lacks the internal connectors for a drive bay module. If you really need optical and coax/electrical spdif i/o, you can still get the digital i/o module for the flexijack, anyway (it's ~ 30 Euro over here). Nice heatsink on the X-Fi dsp, btw.

Oh, and those 2 MByte ram are perfectly normal for the XtremeMusic and Platinum. So that's no extra.

Greetings from Hannover!

Manfred / lini