![]() The Recon3D Fatal1ty Champion is the absolute top-of-the-line sound cards from Creative. There are two other similar cards, priced for users with different budgets. The one we’re reviewing, of course, is Fatal1ty branded to attract gamers. Fatal1ty, a well known professional gamer has his branding on a number of other gaming accessories and components, spanning across several brands. The usual 3.5mm audio connects, including two optical ports The external packaging and the contents are also designed to keep the gamers happy. ![]() The Recon3D Fatal1ty Champion comes with, of course, the card, a PC dock, called the Sound Blaster I/O drive that sits in one of the 5.25-inch slots, where your DVD drives usually go and there’s also a bundled microphone. The sound card is at the heart of the entire set-up. It fits into a PCIe x1 slot and it’ll fit fine on even a PCIe x4 or x16 slot, if you don’t have an x1 slot free. The rear of the card has the usual set of analog 3.5mm audio ports - three for the surround sound speaker set-up, one for headphones, a line-in port that doubles up as a microphone-in jack. The interesting bit is the two optical ports, one for output, which is standard on most audio cards on discrete solutions as well as motherboards. The second is an audio input for those who might want to connect other devices to the PC. There are more connects found on the forward dock for those who want easy access. These include two RCA stereo jacks, a headphone jack and a microphone in jack. The sound card itself has a 24-bit DAC that supports audio sample rates upto 96kHz. There’s also 16 and 24-bit recording capability for sample rates ranging from 8 to 96kHz. The Recon3D is then a very versatile and scalable sound card that isn’t just made for gaming. Creative also boasts of an inbuilt 600 Ohm headphone amplifier, which should interest those with high-end headphones. Such users usually have to depend on external headphone amplifiers. The driver and user interface deserves a clear mention.
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