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    Creative X-Fi ExpressCard -- worth it?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Burgers, Aug 31, 2008.

  1. Burgers

    Burgers Newbie

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    I'm sick of the 'CPU noise' my Inspiron 1520 is generating through the headphone port. I bought headphones with inline volume control to get around this issue, but now I notice when doing recordings with a microphone plugged into the side microphone port it RECORDS that stupid beeping, whining CPU noise in the background. I want better recordings than this and am willing to pay for it.

    I think the ExpressCard Dell offers comes with a microphone and headphone port right on it -- so does anyone know if it would not have the CPU noise? I assume it wouldn't since the inputs are going through a different piece of hardware, but I want to know for sure. Is this product overall a good deal or is there something better available? Also, it would be nice if it supported Soundfonts. :\
     
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  2. Wolfpup

    Wolfpup Notebook Prophet

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    Unfortunately I haven't seen the ExpressCard X-Fi offered ANYWHERE for a couple of weeks. Dell dropped it from their configurations, their online store, and Newegg and Zipzoomfly don't have it either-at least the last time I checked.

    Did you try disabling the 'A' wireless band, if you've got wifi on at all?
     
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