Right now the pci-e sound cards are not real pci-e ones and there are the lower end ones that use your cpu unlike the higher end pci xfi cards that off load work from the cpu.
Right now the pci-e sound cards are not real pci-e ones and there are the lower end ones that use your cpu unlike the higher end pci xfi cards that off load work from the cpu.
There is the Asus Xonar, which is an actual soundcard and doesn't use the CPU. I wouldn't buy a Creative soundcard if you ever want to use Vista.