great a tie
see the OEM versions of the Audigy go for like $60 (USD) and the Game Theater XP, as stated in my first post, are $100 (USD).
everyone has rated both of those cards to be great-excellent
i wish one of those on-line sites would do a side by side comparision to settle the arguement
currently i'm leaning towards the Game Theater, only because of the many options it provides
i had a Live! 5.1 but could never get that card to work fine on my machine, so i went back to the orginal Live! card
also my next motherboard will be based on the VIA KT333 chipset...so I also want to aviod problems with compatibility
-ren
PS please feel free to add more feedback....i still have 2 wks