Well, done a lot of reading, my socket 775 motherboard has died & I had the Essence PCI ST fitted in this board. Unfortunately I now need to buy a new one. I was looking at the Z97 boards of which few have PCI sockets & those that do, do not overly appeal to me, so with PCIe in mind is it a good...

From my tests of the two drivers I really can't tell much difference. If anything I prefer the Asio drivers that come with my Asus ST card or those supplied by Jriver.