Look at the supreme fx card, it is now an x-fi powered card.... That's kinda strange isn't it?

Asus now has its own brand of sound card, and they are pretty serious about the sound card market. I can't believe they will bring X-Fi into their premium motherboard product line.

and there were some shots being fired between Creative and Asus, over the EAX5 implementation. I don't believe it is the right time 2 companies would sleep in the same bed and make something together (love or something else, like a sound card)

I agree that they really need to bundle a better card then (the original) supreme fx. Com'on, if you can spend a premium price to buy a top of the line motherboard, there is a high chance that you will buy a decent sound card too. I end up paying more that a cheapy sound card that you won't use. And seem you can't use it on other computer also.... complete waste

Bundling a X-Fi card is technically a good move, assuming that it is really a decent card instead of just a marketing gimmick. However I really wonder why it would happen, on a business perspective....

Hardware-wise, is there any real difference between this and the previous supreme fx card? I really wanna know.