[HostileReality]

thanks for the advice, i'll go with the delta then. can i not just have 2 cards in the same machine?

actualy anoter idea: the way it's setup is that i have one hard drive for games, and one for music, and depending on what i need to do i choose which drive to load windows from when the pc starts up. so i guess i could maybe load the drivers for the delta on the music drive, and keep the x-fi loaded on the games drive, and just find a way of stopping it from saying 'new hardware found' all the time (maybe)... anyone know if this might work?