Really?
What's the rest of your beast?
There are some driver issues with VIA chipsets and the Aureal Vortex series cards - which is exactly why I can't use them.
"What do I care for your suffering? Pain, even agony, is no more than information before the senses, data fed to the computer of the mind. The lesson is simple: you have recieved the information, now act on it. Take control of the input and you shall become master of the output."