stuff arrived!
February 11th, 2006over the last week or so, but there’s work in between all of this :p
creative x-fi platinum. i can finally say goodbye to my ancient sblive and actually play games using eax (lol). the 24-bit crystallizer thing works nicely on music and general sound, and the software including isnt too bad. except the program to manage the included remote control wont install… format time is coming up methinks.
i have the card connected to my yamaha system via both optical and 6 channel analog input. any non-dolby already compressed dvd content that is processed by EAX or such is only output as 2ch audio over optical, so for gaming and stuff i just hit a button to swap to analog input. luckily the x-fi outputs on both digital and analog simultaneously.
and a g7 to boot. this mouse is quite a piece of work. compared to the bluetooth predecessor, there’s almost no lag in movement, and the tracking is awesome. not to mention its battery is about 10x lighter than the 2 AAs in the bluetooth version.
