The Creative X-Fi Scandal

[Brian]

The Creative X-Fi Scandal (http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/9930/The+Creative+XFi+Scandal/)

"The media around the world already covered it and revealed all these issues many months ago. Creative even confirmed some of these issues. Today after many months, we did a little research to find out what has happened since then. We found out that only a few manufacturers have released BIOS updates to solve some of these issues. Creative has made a mysterious firmware upgrade that cannot be found on their website, and some users claimed it killed their card. According to users in their forums, most of the effected consumers are STILL having issues with the X-Fi series."

Read full story here (http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=Articles&go=read&arc_id=76)

[PowerUser]

NGOHQ guys would sell their mums as guinea pigs to get some attention... Those nForce4 problems that many different devices exhibited were solved 5 or 6 MONTHS ago with the bios updates. There is nothing "mysterious" about a bios update unless you are a moron turned IT journalist like perhaps this NGOHQ person. Look up these threads and see for yourself what I mean:
http://forums.hardwarezone.com/showthread.php?t=1287905&page=6&pp=15
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=181332
Yes, I have X-Fi and it works fine ;)

[blackjet]

I never heard about this before, I always had a very high opinion of all creative products. From now on I will research any potential creative purchase much more thoroughly!