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The chips these things use in the analog section are horrendously under-spec'ed for serious audio work. Again, you're looking at a card manufactured by a gaming card company that still doesn't really understand a whole lot about audio.
As long as transient response and slew rate aren't important things to you, then the cards we're talking about should do just fine. The analog sections in these cards are designed for one thing: to keep noise specs down in an effort to improve their published dynamic range so that the unwashed masses will ooh and ah over it's specs. That's not to bash the converter chips, which are more than up to the task. But what good is it to use such nice converter chips when the audio is essentially compromised right before it hits them?
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