Yeah, why this card has a Realtek ALC898? wtf, it's the main sound chip? Not creative chip? I'm wondering, what is better, Sound Blaster Audigy Rx or Asus Xonar DSX. About this creative, now i don't know, my onboard is realtek ALC887, don't know if the 898 is better or not, all realtek chips are the same to me, same crap with just different numbers. I had a pre-historic sound blaster live 5.1 in the past and sounded a million times better than any realtek chip i ever had, i loved that card, the sound quality was superb. But i'm really sure this audigy FX is much better than my ALC887, at least audio is equalized and filtered by hardware and better drivers than realtek.