Do I need a new sound card?

[Sabenza]

I just built my gaming rig for BS, Lockon & FSX: Win 7 64 bit, i7 920 (OC to 3.8G), Asus P6T Deluxe V2, XFX GTX295, 6G OCZ Platinum running at 1600MHz, WD 1TB SATA II, Antec 900 case, Cosair Power Supply HX850W, Saitek X52 Pro & Rudder, Logitech G15 v2. Everything appears to be running smoothly (except some quirks on the X52 Pro MFD).

 

I am currently running the on board sound chip, but I have an old Creative X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty Champion Series, which uses the old PCI type of slot. Is it worth buying a newer version such as the Creative PCI Express X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro Series, which uses PCI express? Or should I be looking at the Asus Xomar Series, which also uses PCI Express?

 

Would I see improved performance with PCI Express? For compatibility with Win7 64 bit, should I stick with Creative or try Asus?

[CAT_101st]

I am running a XFi gammer PCI with Win 7 64bit build 7100 and it sounds better than it does with my XP running on same system. Win 7 allows the full pontichel of the XFi card to be used. I would say save the mone and just run the one you have untill you do some more recherch or save up money and buy a PCI-E sound card. I would just stick with sound blaster if you buy another card.

[Maximus_G]

Would I see improved performance with PCI Express?

 

That's a definite No!

[Ivonq]

The old X-Fi is good, mate...you built a nice rig!

[Sabenza]

KOOL, I'll give the old card a go.

[sweinhart3]

Sound cards dont use up enough bandwidth take full advantage of pci-express. I personally just use onboard sound but external sound card is supposed to use less cpu resources