Hi Robscux,...It appears that you are sort of the sound card Guru on this forum as well as Guru3D.I too am a forum member there and have read your posts.If you had a choice of sound cards to be used for gaming,without concern as to how much they cost,would you go with Auzentech,Creative or Xonar. I don't know enough about EAX to even care if a card has it.Or should I care?Is there really enough of a difference that I would even notice? If you have time, please let me know. Thanks.