I just realized that I almost have enough spare parts for a second machine for the wife including a Xitel Storm Platinum sound card. I'm really only concerned with basic sound, nothing extraordinary.

I've read that the issues with the Vortex 2 drivers were pretty much solved with Windows XP...Well, I've got a KM400 mobo with "C-Media" onboard that begs to differ...When I installed the MX300, ...