Has anyone purchased a X-FI music with the 64mb memory on it?

[irev210]

I just got an OEM X-FI today, and it has a hynix memory chip on it.


Has anyone else purchased a X-FI and recieved on-board memory?


I just did a little more research

HY57V161610ET x16 16Mb 2K Ref. 3.3V 5/55/6/7/8/10/15 TSOP Mass production

uhh, 16Mb of memory on my card... that is fuggin strange.


Okay, I am totally confused.

Some come with none? Others with 2mb? Others with 64... okay, so elite and fatality get 64mb, but what about regular music? Anyone here get it without any ram, or 2mb, or 16?

Thanks. This makes no sense.

[Snufkin]

Mine will arrive tomorrow.

[OmegaMerc]

they all have some ram on it, the two higher end models got tons of useless ram on it, thats about it.

[MuskBassist]

You don't have 16MB, you have 16Mb. 16Mb = 2MB.

[JoeBar]

You don't have 16MB, you have 16Mb. 16Mb = 2MB.
Exactly.

[irev210]

You don't have 16MB, you have 16Mb. 16Mb = 2MB.


sorry, yes 16Mb.


Anywho I thought some had none, others 2, others 16, then the rest 64.

[jakedeez]

I still don't really see the point of putting ram on a sound card...

[krille]

I still don't really see the point of putting ram on a sound card...You probably won't till software (or drivers) actually utilizes it. So far only BF2 supports it.

Anyway, it's just the same thing as with video memory. Reduces latencies really and avoids excessive usage of the PCI bus. All chips have a buffer of sort, X-Fi has a large external one.

[InSanCen]

I still don't really see the point of putting ram on a sound card...

I'd rather load up a Soundcard with RAM than rip into my System memory...
Soundfonts for MIDI work... I have a Piano here weighing in at 600MB+... yes, a single Piano (I dare someone to do a blindfold test, and tell it from the real thing on my setup)

when I can chuck a load of RAM (1GB) on a soundcard, I'll be happy.

PS: This is assuming the RAM works in the same way as the AWE32/64 cards. Otherwise, no reason for it at all at this moment in time.

[ripken204]

i dont see the point either, if no one supports it yet then no one cares. this card has been out for a while now and more than 1 game should have supported it by now.

[i||uSi0n^]

i just got me a x-fi music, no ram on it and the damn thing wont work under vista...creative really suck @ driver support...

i||uSi0n^

[JoeBar]

x-fi xrememusic has 2mb onboard memory.

[classic_leon]

As I know your OEM X-Fi does not provided AC3/DTS decoding supported. But the sound card can work exactly as an X-Fi retail through softmod as the sound card is the same as retail one but a few chips are older.

[i found nemo]

i dont see the point either, if no one supports it yet then no one cares. this card has been out for a while now and more than 1 game should have supported it by now.

yea just like dual cores are useless cuz no one supports them for games ( in masses ) and operating systems.

the less the card has to access your system memory the more your system memory can do with other things. duh! :slapass:

[joshd]

yea, I think it is more for making the cards future proof, when games support higher quality audio, and the cards will be able to take advantage of it.

[JoeBar]

The return of the dead... :p: