Creative SB X-Fi on HDX 16t

Was thinking of re-ordering an HP HDX once WINDOWS 7 ships and was wondering if anyone knows how the Creative Sound Blaster X-FI card works on this system? Does it stick out? I would be using this to replace the crappy IDT sound. Was wondering if anyone has it with the HDX series?

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage...&cp=1&id=1218036213970#tabbed-customerreviews

 

'crappy idt sound'???

Do you *really* need 'pro gamer' XiFi sound (remember that this implies paying royalty money back to fatality for using his name) or will 5.1/7.1 surround do the trick?

 

LOL, actually yes, I'm a major audiophile was just wondering if anyone has used it on the HDX 16t? When I had the HDX the IDT sound had low volume and made clicking noises.

 

Clicking noises are usually a driver problem. make sure that your sound and chipset drivers are fully up to date.

I would think that a 'major audiophile' wouldn't stand for all of the sound manipulations and distortions that Creative uses to produce WiFi.

 

Well then what's the best sound for a laptop. When I had my HDX16t I did everything under the sun to fix the stuttering crackling audio. Latest drivers and latest bios and a CLEAN vista install didn't do anything .

 

What were you listening to when you head the crackling sound, cuz I only hear it on vista startup.

 

I would browse the web and hear it, click on My computer and hear it.

 

That sucks. idk man. Did you call up HP?

 

Yeah, I think every HP laptop does this and I'm just picky or most people don't notice it.

 

*rubs his forehead* Creative again. Stay away from their crap. They make horse**** drivers where they recycle their code from OS to OS and its the core reason for stability issues. They sue people when they try and shoehorn newer drivers and upload them for others to use. They take months to release new drivers for newer OS's, if they ever do. And finally they have a tendency to kill perfectly good hardware by not supporting current OS's. I had a audigy that was less then a year old. Win Vista came out. They never did release drivers for it to allow access to the features of the card. I'd sooner go without sound on my system then use SB again.

 

ok are you lisetning to very well recorded/ripped music or gaming or a mix?

headphones or speakers? wireless, Bluetooth, 2.4Gz propriatary, or wired?

do you care about synthetic 5.1/7.1 or is your source material actually real honest to godness 5.1/7.1/thx??

I personally lean towards TurtleBeach and (yes) the Intel IDT hardware for my laptop(s) and the htpc setup.

 

Newsposter, I appreciate you trying to troubleshoot with me but it was something that couldn't be fixed. The laptop was defective. I'm gonna probably give the HDX series another go come November with pre-installed Windows 7. That could make the world of difference.

I was also wondering when HP is gonna release some new models? I think the HDX series came out a year ago. We're gonna need some systems built only for Windows 7.

 

win7 doesn't need anything special in the way of hardware. As long as the base hardware drivers are there (chipset, disk, cpu, network, video, etc) win7 will boot, load and run.

I believe that the min requirements are 1gz of cpu, 1Gb of ram, and a DX9/10 capable accelerated video card. The cpu guess is pretty accurate, more ram is always better (and cheap!). Video seems to always be the defining item for that thrice-damned 'experience score' so if fanbois points are important to you, go for a faster video card/chip.

Back to sound; the question about synthetic surround vs 'real' stands. Are your real-world sound 'purity' needs such that you need something more sophisticated than what is built-in (and presumably functional) with your laptop?

 

This crackling noise could very likely be related to another driver, such as wireless LAN (hence the sound when web browsing). I was looking at the HDX 16t but I've heard a few people mention this problem. Would you mind running this tool to check the latency of this system, and maybe get on the internet or something while you're running it? If it spikes into the red, see if that correlates with the sound crackle. I'd really appreciate it if you could do that and post the results!

http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml

 

Ah, nevermind. I found your other thread about it.

 

Hi, every one....

I have a new Hdx18t, i buy because it was a multimedia hd laptop..
i work with sound, i suppose that will have the best hardware of audio, video, etc..

I check the latency with DPC.
It's bad, when you don't use nothing.. the latency is between 300-800 us.
When you move your mouse or change windows, it goes over 8000 one moment (1 bar).

When you conect a WireFire Audio Interface, it sucks!!!!!
The Chipset of FireWire it's bad, not for multimedia... audio or video streaming. (This unit doesn't have a Texas Instrument ChipSet-FireWire)


I'am disappointed with this HDX, all works fine, but it's a common laptop...not for extreme multimedia, audio recording or video streaming.
why the HDX ?? doesn't have nothing of HIGH !!!!! only the price

I have spend more than 2400 U$D for this laptop hdx18....