Meh
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The Titanium HD and ASUS Essence ST/STX are both great cards. I've had both, but ultimately kept the STX because of the higher impedence it supports. That being said the HD was a solid card, and I could find it for about $30 cheaper, though judging by how you don't mind spending $500ish I doubt you'd card about that amount of money. Creative is also first and foremost a computer audio company so yes they have better support for gaming audio, but I can't say that I heard any discernable difference between using one card over the other in a game. Also, EAX used to be huge in the PC gaming scene but I can't recall the last time that EAX was even an option in any recent games.