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Creative Labs Sound BlasterX Vanguard K08 Keyboard

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Creative Labs Sound BlasterX Vanguard K08 Keyboard

SaskAudioGuy

438

Mar 15, 2019

Community focused eh? How little they remember the absolute nightmare that was when Vista came out. The drivers were bugged, and in the release notes, they blamed Vista for being too efficient the drivers couldn't keep up. Let alone the feature strip from the X-Fis because they didn't want to enable features. Hacked drivers, made by the community gave the X-Fi an extended life, then there were the feature gutted X-Fi's that weren't really X-Fi's. I still have my pci based X-Fi, the remote, the 5 1/4" front panel, with it's evil key'd ribbon cable, so you couldn't just replace it with a better cable. It's actually my second, my first was a better card, as it wasn't a near fail, as it lived without a glued on heatsink. I'm rambling because I had used SoundBlaster's from an ISA SB16, my favourite was my Awe 64 Gold(that was a beastly card), to that X-Fi redux. I still use sound cards, some cheap, some not so cheap, I'm running a modified Strix Raid Dlx currently in my desktop. I'm rambling aren't I, but if this thing needs 'Creative' software, I'd be worried about support going forward. Edit: After reading the reviews, looks like it's the same old Creative, decent hardware, lousy software. Went to Creative's support page, firmware is 2 years old, but at least the 'control' software has been recently updated last month, with mentions about performance improvements and bug fixes. Link: https://support.creative.com/Products/ProductDetails.aspx?prodID=22925&prodName=Sound+BlasterX+Vanguard+K08 TLDR: Sounds like a solid product for a great price, the software side isn't great, but it is very tempting for the price. The big dampener is that unless you reside in the US, no warranty for you. Edit2: The Switches are extremely similar to the Romer-G Linear switches that Logitech uses. The total stroke has only been extended from 3.2mm to 3.5mm and the plastic colours are different.

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UchihaItachi

Mar 16, 2019

SaskAudioGuyGot it in the last drop, ordered the mouse too. Both are great. Great quality for a very decent price. The software realy isn't that great, but it works fine and it's not very important. Actually, the only thing about it is the lagging, but still, not that bad. For this price, it's a realy good deal. I'm glad I bought it.

SneakeLlama

Jun 2, 2019

SaskAudioGuyI don't get the hate. I have no issues with anythinf

SaskAudioGuy

438

Jun 2, 2019

SneakeLlamaMe and Creative have a very strained relationship. I used to be a real fan boy but after getting burned by the XFi, their shit with Vista, their ditching hardware with buggy drivers/firmware, stripping features and their general piss poor attitude towards the community for years. I will say that I almost dropped the cash for a Sound BlasterX AE-5, but a Asus Strix Raid Dlx fell into my lap for far less money.