Your Sound Blaster audio card

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio

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Your Sound Blaster audio card

Your audio card has the jacks and connectors below to enable the attachment of a wide variety of devices. The availability and position of the jacks and connectors may vary, as shown below:


	Jack or Connector	Description
1.	Line Out 3 jack	Connect the following inputs on powered analog speakers or a home theater receiver to this jack: On 5.1 systems: Front Center and Subwoofer On 6.1 systems: Front Center, Subwoofer and Rear Center On 7.1 systems: Front Center, Subwoofer and Side Left

Line Out 2 jack

Connect the following inputs on powered analog speakers or a home theater receiver to this jack:

On 4.1, 5.1 and 6.1 systems: Rear Left and Rear Right

On 7.1 systems: Rear Left, Rear Right and Side Right

Line Out 1 jack

Connect the Front Left and Front Right inputs on powered analog speakers or a home theater receiver to this jack. You can also connect your stereo headphones with a 3.50 mm (1/8-inch) plug to this jack.

Digital I/O / Line In / Mic In jack

Performs a 3-in-1 function, supporting Microphone-in, Line-in and Digital I/O connections.
Connect one of the following to this jack:

analog devices like cassette players and other line-level sources

a microphone

the Digital I/O Module*

external digital audio devices that accept stereo PCM or compressed Dolby Digital/DTS Bitstream from the Digital output

See Configuring your Digital I/O module.

Aux In connector

Connect an analog CD cable (available separately) from the analog output on an audio device like a TV tuner to this connector.

Front Panel Header Audio connector

Connect one end of the Intel Front Panel Audio cable (available separately) to this connector. See Front Panel Header for specifications.

Notes

*Available as an upgrade accessory in some regions.

6.1 channel audio is not supported by Windows Vista.

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