Quote Originally Posted by dfour View Post
The CMSS and Crysilizer make a big difference to mp3 but the main upgrade I found over the onboard sound was when playing games especially as all onboard are limited to EAX2 and the X-FI is EAX HD5 (or something like that) and the difference is night and day there (I use XP so no idea with the way vista screwed the sound all up if it will be the same).
I find no difference with 99% of games - we've got one system with a creative card and one with onboard.