System Builder Marathon: Day Three
Sound Card: Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS
Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS
The majority of builders would be pleased with the high-quality audio codecs found on today's top motherboards, but the enthusiast will want even more quality. A 109 dB signal-to-noise ratio might be just the thing to make this high-end system sound like something worth its price!
Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS with bay mount I/O unit
Unlike the lesser cards in Creative's X-Fi line-up, the Fatal1ty FPS uses the full version DSP for offloading audio workload from the processor. Unique to the Fatal1ty is its 64 MB cache.
The Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS sells for around $170 at online retail stores.
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