Just received my Xfi fatal1ty from bliz  past 2 days ... assembled at today 1am...
everything works fine...

Can join the club here

ah.. May I ask a noob question to all sifus ?
Do you enable all the EAX , 24-Bit Crystalizer , SVM and EQ ?

If I enable all , isit messed up or ?
I very noob at audio , so sorry

Sorry for being noob here.
What the difference by changing those panasonic capacitor?

-pWs-

Anyone can do it for me?
My hand will shake when soldering.

-pWs-

hehe, ppl here all swap opamp, not the coupling cap...ask Najmods or UNDERGROUD see whether they can do it for you...

EDIT: since you are using VS4121 , throw it away before any modding on the sound card because VS4121 not deserve to pair with X-FI and the mod won't give you any audible improvement...

The opamp will give the biggest improvement of all, 2nd is the decoupling caps. The DSP is only for longer lifespan since the Jamicon crap is prone to leaking and burst

I suggest you check the voltage on the places you want to change the caps, buy the one that have the closest one to the nominal voltage, going too high is not advisable, since it will makes the spec worse because you don't use at their rated voltage

hehe, here is the voltage of all caps...

http://img135.imageshack.us/my.php?image=x...voltagesgl3.jpg

EDIT: OMG, just test the RMAA, all 3 distortion and intermodulation test went down 10% after i only change the DSP supply cap, unbelievable...

EDIT2: well, i have addicted on modding so i take out the card once again and do "second phase" modding ...i desolder the Rubycon MBZ 1000uf 10v from still working MX440 GC and put into the C46 opamp supply cap....OMG, this time i really hear the different when i plug the earphone and set it to max bass + max volume...the image the of bass still there and the sound only suffer minor distortion even on those setting compare with unmodded...huge different man...   BTW, i think i will change that cap to another later because the cap is too 'fat' and actually the cap already 5-6 year...