XFI extreme music or extreme audio?

matt100 · 25 Nov 2007 at 22:31

Whats the difference? For the pretty basic user is there any noticable difference?

I can get an extreme music for £35-£40 second hand so the difference is about £10/£15.

I've been building for about 3 years and after a pretty disasterous soundcard experience a few years back I've always made do with on board but having a set of decent headphones/speakers I'm tempted to get something a bit better now but I'm kinda lost!

Tute · 25 Nov 2007 at 22:34

Music certainly. It has a whole load of features the Audio does not.

As for which features they are, you'd need to wait for someone who knows more, but i'm sure i'm right!

MeatLoaf · 25 Nov 2007 at 22:46

Ive had both the PCI-E X-Fi ( a totally different cartd to the PCI version ) and an extreme music.

Both worksed great and sounded great in games.

1mm3 · 26 Nov 2007 at 05:37

Music. The quality of the components is better.

Would have been a lot easier if you'd carried out a search.

SS-89 · 26 Nov 2007 at 06:58

Definitely the extreme music.

Shakey_Jake33 · 26 Nov 2007 at 07:52

The XtremeAudio is just a rebadged AudigySE. Most definately go with the XtremeMusic.

MeatLoaf · 26 Nov 2007 at 08:41

Shakey_Jake33 said:
The XtremeAudio is just a rebadged AudigySE. Most definately go with the XtremeMusic.

That may be the case with the PCI version, but the PCI-E version is a totally different beast. But the extreme music is the better card, as said before