When I was shopping for sound cards I noticed the only difference between any of the live cards was the software shipped with them (fairly certain). Did you get a game with it? I checked there website and unfortunately it's totally changed since 9 months ago and nothing is familiar so I can't say for certain.
This is taken from there new site
"The Sound Blaster Live! X-Gamer is one memeber of the Sound Blaster Live! family of cards, other memebers are the Blaster Live! MP3+ and the Sound Blaster Live! Platinum. They all share the same design and solutions."
It makes no mention of the "Value" so I could be totally wrong. I'd email them and see what Creative has to say.
Psyko
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