Which sound card should I buy ?

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Hi !

I am in the process to build my new intel core-4 machine. Am thinking
of getting a brand new sound card for it as well.

Budget that I have for the new sound card is less than $750 - what can
I get in that range ?

Oh, I compose music, and I do need very good sound card. The current
sound card that I use, the one on my old machine is Creative X-Fi
Elite Pro - hardware-wise it isn't bad, but software ... if Creative
would make their software better it would be nice.

Basically what I need in the sound card is simple - I need it to
support at least 48 bits / 384KHz input and output, on hardware. Of
course, I need great softwares for it too !

So what's your recommendation ? What should I get ?

Many thanks !