Creative Awakens The World With A New Sound

By Digital Trends Staff August 9, 2005

Creative have announced to the world, the awakening of a new dawn in sound card technology with their Sound Blaster X-Fi range of sound cards.

Following on from Creative’s Audigy range of sound cards, Creative reawaken sound enthusiasts with new blood, rather than tweaked variants of older technology.

Recommended Videos

Boasting a wide range of features, the Xtreme Fidelity range of sound cards from Creative come with promises of an entirely new audio standard for music, movies and games.

Debuted at e3 2005 in Los Angeles during May 2005, Creative’s X-Fi Audio Processor holds rank at a count of not only 51 million transistors, but also being capable of 10,000+ MIPS.

Features being touted include Creative’s 24-bit Xtreme Fidelity Crystalizer technology, EAX Advanced HD 5.0 and a modal system, dedicating resources and power to perform specific tasks.

Being released in several variants, each targeting particular user groups, Creative are tantalizing users taste buds with entry-level solutions such as the Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic, with anMSRP of $129.99, to the top of the range Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro, coming with a just as elite price tag of $399.99 MSRP.

Digital Trends Staff

Digital Trends has a simple mission: to help readers easily understand how tech affects the way they live. We are your…

Computing

New World PC performance guide: The best settings for optimized frame rates

Character using lightning in New World.

New World is Amazon's first foray into the world of video game publishing -- and it made a splash when its beta began melting graphics cards. That's not a problem anymore, thankfully, but that also doesn't mean it'll run smoothly across every PC hardware setup.

After testing the game at launch, we have put together a New World PC performance guide to help you get the best out of your system while playing the game. We're going to cover the optimal settings to increase your frame rate, how the game runs across graphics cards and resolutions, and some of the unique options buried in the settings menu.

Computing

Nvidia’s new voice A.I. sounds just like a real person

Nvidia Voice AI

The "uncanny valley" is often used to describe artificial intelligence (A.I.) mimicking human behavior. But Nvidia's new voice A.I. is much more realistic than anything we've ever heard before. Using a combination of A.I. and a human reference recording, the fake voice sounds almost identical to a real one.

All the Feels: NVIDIA Shares Expressive Speech Synthesis Research at Interspeech

Computing

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT sets new world record at 3.2GHz

amd radeon rx 6900 xt new world record clock speed

Overclocker Der8auer set a new world record with the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT. In a YouTube video released Wednesday, the German overclocking legend used a liquid nitrogen cooling rig to push AMD's flagship Big Navi GPU to 3.2GHz, setting a new world record for graphics card speed. The 6900 XT is already an absurdly fast graphics card with a boost clock of 2.25GHz, but Der8auer was able to take the card 1GHz beyond even its fastest speed.

The clock speed goes beyond the artificial clock limit of 3.0GHz on the 6900 XT. That's because Der8auer was using a PowerColor LiquidDevil Ultimate card, which has a clock limit of 4GHz. It uses the updated XTXH variant of the Navi 21 processor inside the 6900 XT, upping the previous version's frequency limit.