Im with you with no creative rubbish.

So i got my current card, a HDA Mystique. Absolutely superb, 24bit playback and recording and on the fly Dolby Digital Live encoding. Makes my old Fortissimo III (which was an outstanding leap from onboard) sound grumbly and muffled.

Unfortunately the only place i could find that sold it was OcUK, so i had to buy it from there