Sunday, June 21st 2009
X-Fi I/O Bay Titanium Now Available from Auzentech
Auzentech announced today the immediately availability of the X-Fi Titanium I/O Drive for purchase from the Auzentech Online Store. According to the Auzentech website, the X-Fi Titanium I/O Drive is "the ideal way to harness the power of connectivity for select Auzentech PCI Express X-Fi Sound Cards. With the ability to go straight to gaming mode with the push of a button, Headset Connectivity, volume controls and the ability to record your own music, the I/O drive expands your system with a wealth of options."
"We received many requests for the X-Fi Titanium I/O Drive after releasing the X-Fi Forte Sound Card earlier this year," said Auzentech President Stephane Bae. "It greatly expands the connectivity of compatible PCI Express sound cards, so we are pleased to offer it to our customers."
Manufactured by Creative Labs, the X-Fi Titanium I/O Drive is compatible with the Auzentch X-Fi Forte Sound Card sound card, the soon-to-be-released Auzentech X-Fi HomeTheater HD sound card, and certain Creative sound cards.
The X-Fi Titanium I/O Drive upgrade kit will sell at $79.99 alone, or it can be purchased with the Auzentch X-Fi Forte Sound Card sound card for a combined total price at $199.99.
For more information, visit the links below.
X-Fi Titanium I/O Drive
www.auzentech.com/site/products/xfi_iodrive.php
X-Fi Forte PCI Express Sound Card
www.auzentech.com/site/products/x-fi_forte.php
Source:
Auzentech
Manufactured by Creative Labs, the X-Fi Titanium I/O Drive is compatible with the Auzentch X-Fi Forte Sound Card sound card, the soon-to-be-released Auzentech X-Fi HomeTheater HD sound card, and certain Creative sound cards.
The X-Fi Titanium I/O Drive upgrade kit will sell at $79.99 alone, or it can be purchased with the Auzentch X-Fi Forte Sound Card sound card for a combined total price at $199.99.
For more information, visit the links below.
X-Fi Titanium I/O Drive
www.auzentech.com/site/products/xfi_iodrive.php
X-Fi Forte PCI Express Sound Card
www.auzentech.com/site/products/x-fi_forte.php
83 Comments on X-Fi I/O Bay Titanium Now Available from Auzentech
I only see gamers buying it just to show of the "Fatal1ty" branding.
There's no way an audiophile would buy this. First because of the extremely poor connectivity options and then because of the "Fatal1ty" branding...
Off topic: I miss the old Creative, they had products very few had and they were very good products. Today Creative it's but a shadow of its old self. I wish they would bring back the 550D and the 250D. Especially the 250D...
inferiorgay UART, Azalia standards, and stripping DirectX 10+ of hardware sampling/mixing for DirectSound.On the flip side, i know creative users are crapping themselves - you should see the raging on the killing floor forums, if you have an x-fi you cant use surround sound in the game without a BSOD.
X-Fi isn't a bad product, Vista made it bad, by not letting it function like it should. Before Vista and X-Fi, didn't we like Audigy, and want one of those in our gaming PCs? Heard of "buggy" going with Audigy and its Windows XP drivers? I think not.
hmm, pre vista.. . creative, creative, creative.
Post vista: auzentech, and asus have constantly released new cards, with better and better features. Creative is still releasing (re-releasing) the same crap, with poor driver support as always.
If you're a creative fanboy things arent looking too good... but they never did.
bta if by killing competition you mean providing a set of open specs and opening the market to competition from a wide and varied array of manufactures i agree...wait.
ASUS uses the same AV100/AV200 chips in every sound card it makes, and qualifies for "is still releasing (re-releasing) the same crap" as much as Creative does.
Have we moved along from 24-bit/192kHz since 2005? Have we been able to make games sound more immersive with this "new" standard Microsoft laid out? Have we been able to let hardware acceleration improve (processing 100s of different voices, leaving the CPU alone?) Have we made connecting peripherals for HD audio any easier? The answer is no, hence it's stagnated.
More companies to choose from isn't a bad thing per say, but companies selling things that are not much better than the others', is a dangerous precedent. Both ASUS and Auzentech sell you sound cards that offer the same features., neither of which make games sound better, or improve realism. At least for 10 years, Creative kept developing EAX, which genuinely improved realism.
i'm sorry BTA, creative sucked and needed to be shut down. they were choking the market hard.
talking about dated crap, wasnt it creative who had the same audio processor (and 99% the same hardware) from the SB live 5.1 all the way to the audigy 4? i seem to remember very simple driver mods that enabled all those fancy "hardware" features on my audigy 1.
Creative didn't choke the market, it stayed ahead of times when it came to PC audio technologies. Nobody could match it, and it's not Creative's problem if they can't. All Microsoft made sure is it axed the "superior", and let the "inferiors" compete in the market. It's like axing Intel, and letting AMD and VIA sell processors.
Yes, Creative used EMU10K for over two generations, but even today nobody other than Creative has an audio processor as powerful as that. NVIDIA SoundStorm came close.
every game that used EAX, immediately ruled out anything that wasnt the latest creative cards from using surround sound. what do you think all those threads were about when people moved to vista, and they lost surround sound in games? EAX didnt work, so no 5.1.
After that, there was nothing. it was buy creative or get F*cked, as far as surround sound gaming was concerned.
EAX works fine in vista... creative released alchemy for a reason, and at the same time this allowed other companies to do the same, finally breaking open EAX to everyone. funny how these 'hardware' features work great, even on onboard audio.
Now don't you think it's more convenient if there's just one format to choose from? It's either good quality Creative audio, or archaic standards from UART. Microsoft forced UART upon you with Vista.
ALchemy lets you use EAX, but I don't think the audio is hardware accelerated.
EAX won the war, and creative only allowed their own hardware to use it.
That is the difference.