PCI Express Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium products: the Official Sound Card of the Championship Gaming Series™
Dubai, UAE - October 20, 2008 - Creative Technology Ltd., a worldwide leader in digital entertainment solutions, today announced two new sound cards that unleash the full power of Creative X-Fi hardware audio processing for PCI Express-based PCs:
- PCI Express Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi® Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
- PCI Express Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series
The new PCI Express Creative sound cards each feature a striking design that screams "high performance." Creative will equip the world's best professional PC gamers, who are now competing in the Championship Gaming Series (CGS), with the new PCI Express Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series, the official sound card of the CGS, the only worldwide professional video gaming league.
"Audio plays a huge factor in professional gaming, where every competitive advantage can make the difference between winning and losing. The Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty edition sound cards significantly enhance any professional gaming rig, enabling us to hear what we can't see and perform at our highest level," said Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel, world champion gaming legend and exclusive on-air analyst for the CGS.
"I demand extreme performance from my PC, and I won't settle for less than Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi. It gives me the huge advantage of hearing my opponent before they can see me, and finishing them off before they can do anything about it," said Yazan "Clown" Ammari, Counter-Strike Source member of the San Francisco Optx CGS team.
Leonard Yap, Marketing Manager for Creative Labs Middle East added, "We've developed the PCI Express models of our Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi gaming sound cards to meet the specific requests that we've received from end users. We've made changes to the architecture of our X-Fi processor in order to deliver even more performance and provide the best audio available on the PC today. You'll know why it's worth the upgrade to PCI Express the second you hear it."
The world's first native PCI Express hardware accelerated sound cards, both PCI Express Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty sound cards also feature:
Creative X-Fi processor specifically designed for high-speed PCI Express slots in modern PCs
X-Fi Crystalizer® technology, which leverages audio algorithms to intelligently and selectively determine how to restore the highs and lows from sound effects, instruments and vocals and voices that were damaged or diminished during the MP3, AAC, game audio or other compression processes
X-Fi CMSS®-3D technology, to create virtual surround sound through speakers or headphones in games or music. In games, you hear your opponents in their exact location. With music, the sound expands so it completely surrounds you
Dolby Digital encoding, allowing single-cable connection to a home theatre system for an awesome gaming experience with compelling 5.1 surround sound
An entirely new I/O drive, with innovative design that can fit either a 3 ½" or 5 ¼" drive bay
Certified UAA compliance for maximum Windows Vista compatibility
Ultra-realistic EAX 5.0 effects and 3D positional audio that provide stunning positional audio realism over headphones and speakers, for a completely immersive gaming experience
Creative ALchemy™ to restore EAX® and surround sound in DirectSound game titles running under Vista
X-RAM dedicated audio memory to boost performance in select games
THX Certified surround sound for cinematic movie audio playback
PowerDVD software with DTS-ES and Dolby Digital-EX decoding
24-bit audio quality and 109db SNR audio clarity
ASIO recording support with latency as low as one millisecond with minimal CPU load
The new PCI Express Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series sound card includes all of the features of the PCI Express Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series but adds an internal I/O drive for quick front panel connection to headphones and headsets. This versatile internal I/O drive design offers the choice of placement in either a 3 ½" or 5 ¼" drive bay. The 3 ½" drive features mic-in and headphone-out connections. This drive slides inside the 5 ¼" drive, which adds RCA line-in connections.
Both PCI Express Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty sound cards are available now at the following prices:
- Professional Series: AED 599
- Champion Series: AED 999
For more information on the PCI Express Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty sound cards and all other Creative products, visit www.ae.creative.com and www.soundblaster.com
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About Creative
Creative is a worldwide leader in digital entertainment products. Famous for its Sound Blaster sound cards and for launching the multimedia revolution, Creative is now driving digital entertainment on the PC platform with products like its highly acclaimed ZEN™
portable audio and media players. Creative's innovative hardware, proprietary technology, applications and services leverage the Internet, enabling consumers to experience high-quality digital entertainment -- anytime, anywhere. www.ae.creative.com
About Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel
Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel became the world's first full time professional video gamer in 1999 and since then has dominated competitions all over the world, competing on 6 continents throughout his 8-year professional career and winning an unprecedented 12 world titles in 5 different games. His dedication to the concept of competitive video gaming led him to create a range of gaming gear that carries the Fatal1ty Brand.
In honour of his contributions, Johnathan was awarded the first ever Lifetime Achievement Award in the four-year history of the eSports-Award for "showing exceptional sportsmanship, taking part in shaping eSports into what it is today and for being the prime representative of this young sport. He has become the figurehead for eSports worldwide."
Johnathan has joined forces with Championship Gaming Series (CGS) as exclusive on-air analyst and global spokesperson, maintaining his ongoing efforts to establish competitive video gaming as a 21st century sport. Watch Johnathan and the CGS on DIRECTV in North America and Latin America, BSkyB in the UK, Eurosport in Europe, ESPN-STAR and STAR in Asia and STAR in Australia.
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