Product - Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty Champion Series, Retail

Get the fastest, most realistic game play
& connections for all your audio gear

Serious gaming demands powerful audio performance! The Sound Blaster® X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty Champion Series sound card delivers fast, smooth frame rates and the most intense, realistic sound effects in your games. Plus you get unbeatable headphone surround, convenient front panel audio connections and Xtreme Fidelity audio playback for all of your music, movies and games.

Get the speed you need
This powerful audio processing engine boosts real game performance by more than 15% over ordinary motherboard audio.

Boost game audio performance even further
Free up system memory and improve your audio quality and performance in popular games such as Battlefield 2, Battlefield 2142, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Prey, Quake 4, Doom 3 and others that take advantage of X-RAM.

Hear your enemies before they find you
Slip on your headphones or put your multichannel speakers to work for you with positional audio that's so accurate you can locate enemies by sound.

Battle in a realistic 3D soundscape
Bullets whiz past your head. Explosions shake the room. EAX® ADVANCED HD™ delivers realistic sound effects that take your gaming experience to the next level.

Revitalize your compressed game sounds
X-Fi Crystalizer makes gunshots sound crisp and sharp and explosions really boom for the most intense gaming experience yet.

Enjoy clearer voice chat
Hear the difference Sound Blaster X-Fi makes to your voice communications. Whether you're chatting in game or catching up with distant friends, every voice comes through loud and clear.

Make MP3s sound better than CDs
X-Fi Crystalizer technology restores the detail and vibrance to your compressed music and movies. All the highs and lows are intelligently enhanced so you'll hear everything in crystal clarity.

Turn stereo music and movies into surround sound
X-Fi CMSS-3D technology expands your stereo MP3s and digital movies into surround sound over multichannel speakers, stereo speakers or even headphones. Voices are centered in front of you and ambient sounds are moved all around you.

Enjoy cinematic DVD movie sound
Get THX® certified surround sound plus PowerDVD software featuring DTS™ and Dolby Digital® -EX decoding for cinematic DVD movie playback (free download with purchase)

Control it all from your couch
Browse through your music, movies and pictures with the X-Fi wireless remote and Entertainment Center software.

Get advanced audio and music creation features
Ready to record your latest track? This smart sound card gives you a dedicated audio creation mode plus digital and analog connections for all of your audio gear. You'll get near transparent conversion between any resolutions, digital-matched recording, low-latency ASIO support and more.

- Microsoft® Windows Vista™ or Windows XP (Service Pack 2, x64 or Media Center Edition)
- 1GHz Intel® Pentium® III, AMD or equivalent processor
- 256MB RAM (512MB for Windows Vista)
- 600MB of free hard disk space
- Available PCI 2.1 slot
- CD/DVD-ROM drive
- Graphics card with DirectX® 9 compliant 3D graphics accelerator

• 24-bit Analog-to-Digital conversion of analog inputs at 96kHz sample rate
• 24-bit Digital-to-Analog conversion of digital sources at 96kHz to analog 7.1 speaker output
• 24-bit Digital-to-Analog conversion of stereo digital sources at 192kHz to stereo output
• 16-bit to 24-bit recording sampling rates: 8, 11.025, 16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1, 48 and 96kHz
• ASIO 2.0 support at 16-bit/44.1kHz, 16-bit/48kHz, 24-bit/44.1kHz 24-bit/48kHz and 24-bit/96kHz with direct monitoring.
• Enhanced SoundFont support at up to 24-bit resolution
• 64MB of X-RAM

Audio Performance (Rated Output @ 2Vrms)
• Signal-to-Noise Ratio (20kHz Low-pass filter, A-Weighted)
- Stereo Output: 109dB
- Front and Rear Channels: 109dB
- Center, Subwoofer and Side Channels: 109dB
• Total Harmonic Distortion + Noise at 1kHz (20kHz Low-pass filter) = 0.004%
• Frequency Response (-3dB, 24-bit/96kHz input ) = <10Hz to 46kHz
• Frequency Response (-3dB, 24-bit/192kHz input) = <10Hz to 88kHz (Stereo only)

On-Board Connectivity
• Shared Line In / Microphone / Digital Out via 1/8” mini jack
• Line level out (Front / Rear / Center / Subwoofer / Rear Center) via 3x 1/8” mini jacks
• Internal line-level analog input via 4-pin Molex connector
• X-Fi I/O Console upgrade connection (26 pin)

I/O Drive Connectivity
• Two RCA jacks for coaxial SPDIF input and output
• Two RCA jacks for Auxiliary input
• Two optical connectors for optical SPDIF input and output
• Two mini MIDI female connectors for MIDI input and output
• Headphone output and volume control via 6.35 mm (1/4-inch) stereo jack
• Shared line-level analog Line/Microphone input via 6.35 mm (1/4-inch) stereo jack

- Sound Blaster X-Fi sound card
- X-Fi I/O Drive with screws and cable for installation
- Remote control with 2 AA batteries
- 2 MIDI adapter cables (mini-to-standard)
- 1/8-inch to 1/4-inch plug adapter
- Power splitter cable
- Quick Start leaflet
- Installation CD

Creative offers a twelve (12) month(s) limited hardware warranty.