Greetings!

I've been postponing this for a long time, but I think it's high time to get an actual sound card - I still use the on-board one.
In the future, I plan to buy a good set of speakers, but for now I've funds just for the card.
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer seems like a good choice. I listen to the music a lot and also use my computer for gaming. So the quality of sound is quite important for me. What would be your advice?

Let me just add that my computer operates on Vista and that in near future I'd like to buy these speakers : http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/ [...] NTID=10928

for gaming always go for creative is my opinion. a x-fi of whatever name will do just fine.

you may want to read up on the changes made in vista though as i aint sure how old games stand regarding direct sound. it might cause problems, it might not, i haven't heard of any though.

And, when it comes to listening to music (that's most important to me), is there any significant difference between that card and the fatality edition or the Platinum ed. ?

no, all they have is a front panel and some more onboard ram in the fatality's case.

AFAIK the electronics are the same. the only one that is different is the elite pro which has far higher quality components but is really meant for home recording.

I see, so the X-Fi extreme gamer seems like the best choice for me, aye?

if you don't need the extra connections the front panel offer then yes it will do fine.

I don't suppose I do. I plan to buy the http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/ [...] NTID=10928 in the future - but that's still being decided - I'm not sure in my small room, where the computer is such high quality speakers would be a good choice.

I have a Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Extreme music and I think its phenomenal. I have to admit, though, that its the only soundcard that I have experience with - but I did put one in two of my computers.

this is my personal favorite this is the real gamer deal right here all these pepoles products are top notch.

ven microsoft has teamed up with these pepole razor and have come out with razor \ microsoft mouse

but if your into gaming get the baracuda

http://www.acousticpc.com/razor_ba [...] _card.html

here is a link to a bunch of razor products
http://www.acousticpc.com/razor_store.html

best keyboard and headphones and the razor copperhead mouse is the hands down the best mouse 2000 dpi

some pepole say fatality is also excelent but i will stick to razor

here is the link to the top of the line creative sound blaster fatality edition so you can compare

http://www.acousticpc.com/fatality [...] r_xfi.html

one more thing if you get a razor mouse with you will need for gaming you will need this.

http://www.acousticpc.com/ultimat.html

razor makes a really good mantis mouse surface but the steel pad are the bomb

of course you forget to mention that it don't support eax 3+. strange that.