Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro

Grab the highest quality, most feature-rich sound card in its class
Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro delivers the highest fidelity of all Sound Blaster X-Fi products with pristine 116dB SNR audio playback at up to 24-bit/192kHz.

Record your latest track
This smart sound card gives you a dedicated audio creation mode that lets you record at up to 96kHz or digitally matched to the frequency you chose. Plus the X-Fi I/O Console offers digital and analog connections for all of your audio gear.

Put a powerful audio conversion engine to work for you
Record at your preferred audio resolution without worrying about the final output quality. This audio engine converts your recordings to any resolution at near transparency (136dB THD+N).

Enjoy cinematic DVD movie sound
Get THX-certified surround plus cinematic DVD movie playback with PowerDVD software featuring DTS™ and Dolby Digital-EX decoding.

Control it all from your couch
Browse through your music, movies and pictures with the X-Fi wireless remote and Entertainment Center software.

Here's the speed you need
This powerful audio processing engine boosts real game performance by more than 15% over ordinary motherboard audio.

Hear your enemies before they find you
Slip on your headphones or put your multichannel speakers to work for you with positional audio that's so accurate you can locate enemies by sound.

Revitalize your compressed game sounds
X-Fi Crystalizer makes gunshots sound crisp and sharp and explosions really boom for the most intense gaming experience yet.

Enjoy clearer voice chat
Talk it up and hear the difference Sound Blaster X-Fi makes. Every voice comes through loud and clear.

Features

• Enjoy low latency ASIO recording
  Get ASIO recording with latency as low as one millisecond and zero CPU load for the most precise audio recording capabilities in any class!
  
  
• Access advanced music creation features
  Use up to eight different 24-bit hardware effects-all of which are accessible through the special Audio Creation Mode interface and can be used through any of the inputs. Plus, you'll enjoy hardware synthesis capabilities with 24-bit SoundFont sampling.
  
  
• Make MP3s sound better than CDs
  X-Fi Crystalizer technology restores the detail and vibrance to your compressed music and movies. All the highs and lows are intelligently enhanced so you'll hear everything in crystal clarity.
  
  
• Turn stereo music and movies into surround sound
  X-Fi CMSS-3D technology expands your stereo MP3s and digital movies into surround sound over multichannel speakers, stereo speakers or even headphones. Voices are centered in front of you and ambient sounds are moved all around you.
  
  
• Boost game audio performance even further
  Free up system memory and improve your audio quality and performance in games such as Battlefield 2, Prey, Quake 4, Doom 3 and others that take advantage of X-RAM.
  
  
• Battle in a 3D soundscape
  Bullets whiz past your head. Explosions shake the room. Take your games to the next level with EAX® ADVANCED HD™1 sound effects.
  
  

• Microsoft® Windows Vista™ or Windows XP (Service Pack 2, x64 or Media Center Edition)
• 1GHz Intel® Pentium® III, AMD or equivalent processor
• 256 MB RAM (512MB for Windows Vista)
• 600 MB of free hard disk space
• Available PCI 2.1 slot
• CD/DVD-ROM drive
• Graphics card with DirectX® 9 compliant 3D graphics accelerator