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Those are pretty much all garbage. For that price you should be buying a DAC and AMP.
yolomeister
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It's not so much about the DAC / AMP - in which case we all know dedicated gear will sound better.
It's for getting proper surround sound in games which adds a lot to immersion and enjoyment. The DACs on those cards are more than sufficient for that. Of course the best setup would be: sound card (surround processing) -> DAC -> AMP -> headphones. Purely from a gaming perspective of course.
yolomeister
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What Helikaon said. My SB x-Fi Titanium HD feeds my SMSL sd793II via optical then goes to my old vintage Yamaha. Upgrading to an SMSL M8 through a drop now but I'm sure I'll still be using the sound processing available to me with my soundcard.
Fair warning: those creative cards won't work on linux https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55541