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Hah, that front was NOT going to be put into the mod looking like that. Those pics were mockups of what was going to come up, then the pics of it all scratched up were me sanding it so the vinyl would stick well. I had intended to put CF on it all along!
Well either way it looks great. Looks like my Logitech G7 lol.
sweet job man, looks professional as far as i'm concerned. +rep.
I bet it looks even better in real life ;) Photo's arent good voor CF.
My Xfi came in today. Here are some pics for your pleasure.
Honestly, I hate this guy (Fatal1ty). I have a friend who met him and said he was a spawn camping jerk at E3, he was rude, and as far as I can tell, he seems like a punk kid who plays too many video games, and people act like if you use his hardware you will be a better gamer. Regardless, I bought "his" card.
I mean... it IS a nice card. Its a nice black color with gold accents, and the sound quality cannot be beat in this price point. The fact that I only payed 60 bucks for it may have had something to do with it's purchase as well...
This is Fatal1tys logo... I can't do much about it... However, I am considering changing out the red LED that throws off my case theme for a blue LED, but I am not sure if that is worth voiding my warranty... I am going to make sure it works well before I mess with it.
The cool thing about this card is that it has 64 megs of onboard RAM, in addition to (correct me if I'm wrong) a 200mhz processor, which is some hardcore tech for a soundcard. What it's for is buffering all the sound files into the card so that it uses up less system ram and less of the PCI bus, which is good in my book. Here is the "XFI Ram Module (X-Ram)"... I think it's just a hunk of plastic and the um... RAM modules to the bottom left of it are the X-RAM, but whatever.
I also ordered a 22" Samsung monitor today... should be here by friday, can't wait to boot up TF2 in High Def!
Nice, new tech, can't go past that.
Nice card and an even better monitor:)
After looking at that PCB again I would say the RAM is the two chips directly above the heatsink. From what I remember from seeing other pics of that board that "plastic chunk" has a cable in put on it allowing you to attach a Fata1ity faceplate/control center for the sound card (volume, treble, bass, headphones, mic etc...)
Yeah, like I said you would think the RAM modules would be the RAM, but leave it to creatives er... creative marketing team to mess up definitions.
The cable for the front plate is that big long connector on the right edge of the card. That plastic hunk just houses the LED and the Fatal1ty logo, I realized this as there are only 4 leads going into it, there are no traces on the board itself.
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