Soundblaster X-Fi information released on the web
 

The most powerful audio processor ever built will soon be providing previously unimaginable benefits to users around the world. Delivering such benefits as accelerated frame-rates in games, providing the most realistic headphone surround experience and even adding back in to music the sparkle that is lost during MP3 or WMA compression - this new technology is going to transform the world of entertainment. Whatever you enjoy doing, if it involves audio, is never going to be the same again!

http://www.soundblaster.com/products/x-fi/technology/

Better frames in games?

I'll believe it when I see it!

And even then it ould have to be a dramatic gain in fps, to make buy one.:grum:

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What! A couple of lousy frames?

And for that pay tens of Euros? No way.

ALC850 and ALC858 come for free with the motherboard and will do just as well.

muha hahaha. hahaha.

sound quality with the SB series is much higher then the onboard AL chips;

not only does the SB sound better, it also takes away load from the CPU:)

Well if it does, it doesn't show up in games.

it sure does, Doom 3 and HL2 will run faster with Sound Blaster cards!