Creative is absolute pants, bullocks, or whatever you want to call it. Get a VIA mainboard and get ready for fun sound quality distortion and sample looping!

I have a Hercules Digifire 7.1 here. The sound quality is amazing. The package is amazing. 2 firewire ports. PowerDVD Pro EX, Acid Xpress, and a media editor are all full versions and free inside. At the moment I don't see the point in getting a 24-bit, 96kHz sound card, as there are no 96kHz headphones or speakers . If you just get a 48kHz sound card, if you have a DVD or anything the sound range will be compressed and you'll get the same quality.

There's my rant