I cant decide between these sound cards. Anybody owes thes 2 cards, and wish of these cards provides the best sound in Games, Music, Movies. Sound card will be hookup to a 7.1 surround speakers.
I've heard good things about the Asus but also Creative. The Asus looks very good. From the reviews I've read it has good vista drivers and is a high quality media card, although from what I've heard it doesn't stand out against any other generic PCI cards when it comes to gaming. tricky decision!
I got A supreme FX II (non X-fi version) and a X-FI titanium .
IF X-fi would fix the amazingly shitty drivers that create distortion and work EAX withouth updating ALchemy, id say its better.
So in my case, if i could buy now again id go for a Asus Xonar.