Azuentech Auzen Prelude sound card

has anyone heard of this card? its suposed to rival any creative card outthere with 64mb vram and eax 5.0 support with X-fi.

the retail so far on the card is $229 at newegg which sounds high.

anyone know if this card will drop in proce once its readily available? its stilla new hard tofind sound card.


also would a sound card make any difference if its a pci or pci-e 1x interface? do sound cards really need pci-e to transfer data