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#SOUND BLASTER X FI MB3 NO SUPPORTED AUDIO DEVICE PRO#
#SOUND BLASTER X FI MB3 NO SUPPORTED AUDIO DEVICE PC#

#SOUND BLASTER X FI MB3 NO SUPPORTED AUDIO DEVICE PRO#

It sadly came without awesome looking drive bay as the Fatal1ty pro ones, but the AD_EXT pins are all there, so that’s for on the wish list. I went ahead and ordered the cheapest I could find for 18EUR, apparently the Extreme Music variant. Well, that’s not entirely true, as there exist different chip versions of the EMU20K1 audio chips with a bit of increased RAM. Multiple versions of the card exist, but luckily, in comparison to the confusing Live! or SB16 revisions (of which there are good and less than stellar cards to pick from), the differences are negligible.

The Sound Blaster X-Fi PCI Xtreme Music Edition. However, it pales in comparison with the Sound Blaster X-Fi or eXtreme Fidelity. The MSI MS-7357 mobo has a Realtek ALC888 audio chip soldered on that is capable enough in its own right.

#SOUND BLASTER X FI MB3 NO SUPPORTED AUDIO DEVICE PC#

My WinXP retro machine never housed a soundcard: instead, it was the first PC I built that relied on embedded, onboard audio, coming from the motherboard.

The PCI cards roughly divided in PCI128/ AudioPCI and Live! (1998), the Audigy (2001), and the X-Fi (2005).

The AWE32 (1994) and AWE64 (1996) digital sample-based synthesis cards.

The Sound Blaster 16, which I wrote about earlier, and Vibra 16 (1992).

8-BIT ISA cards, the original Sound Blaster 1.0/2.0 (1989).

In short, there are 5 generations of older cards I’m interested in: I’ve been doing some research on the Sound Blaster family, and Wikipedia summarizes the cards quite nicely. Their iconic big boxes that accompanied new sound cards were always a joy to open up, and the last PCI card in their Sound Blaster range from 2005, the X-Fi, is no different.

Ever since the “ Sound Blaster” brand became iconic in those 486 PCs, I became a big fan of most products Creative brought to the market.