Xtreme Audio or Gamer for best quality music playback, game audio and TV audio?

I'm looking for a soundcard to improve audio quality in music playback, game audio and TV audio through my TV card.. I've got a Logitech Z-5400 5.1 digital speaker set, which can output both through optical or standard 3.5mm jacks ..

I can get Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi cards in OEM for pretty cheap but then which card would be best ... The Xtreme Audio or Xtreme Gamer card? And both are availible in either PCI or PCI-E .. Are there any benifits in PCI-E or PCI for soundcards?

So what'cha think guys??

Cheers

Never go for the X-Audio!!!

The X-Audio bears the X-Fi label, yet it doesn't have the true X-Fi DSP, but a "relabeled" Live24! DSP (CA0106 and yes, the chip on the X-Audio has a freakin' sticker on it.).

The X-Gamer is the lowest of the X-Fi line with a REAL X-Fi DSP (EMU20K1) and it replaces the X-Music, which is discontinued.

So if you really want to go X-Fi, go at least for the X-Gamer.

If you want the top-of-the-line sound card for either gaming and multimedia purposes i would recommend the Auzen X-Fi Prelude 7.1.

As for the PCI and PCI-e question: Only the X-Audio is available in both PCI and PCI-e and the rest only PCI, which is lame. Why only using your absolute low end crap card to utilize the PCI-e bus? A PCI-e Elite Pro would be nice. Would save another PCI slot and no latency (for some) issues.

I'll keep that in mind then .. The money I had kinda burnt a hole in my pocket however and I got another GPU to CrossFireX with X2 .. TV and Sound card will be my next upgrade tho ..

Cheers