PCI express Multi channels Audio card ?

Hello, I need to build a Audio/Video player for an installation witch will run 365 days per year.
The system need to be fully automated and it need to have minimun human support.
I could use a Mac Pro for this since it's easier to setup the needed hardware such as the video card and the sound card, but the Mac Pro does not have light out management it does not fit on racks and it does not have redundant power supply.
So I'm trying to build this media server with xserve for the reason I explane above .
As video card I've found this ATI Radeon X1300 witch is good for my kind of application since I need to run a quicktime movie 1400x1050 Animation
For the sound I wish I could not use an external firewire card to minimize possible issues like power supply fault ( most firewire card are sold with little powersupply and very cheep power connectors )
So I'm searching for a PCI Express card to be integrated in the Xserve that could output 6 discrete audio channels from my quicktime movie.
Does anyone know any good one ?
thanks

Your question is very specific, so you might find better answers looking somewhere like M-Audio.
A quick search does, indeed, find a lack of PCIe-based solutions. However, you shouldn't necessarily discard PCI-X options. The XServe can accept either PCIe or PCI-X cards - you just need to order the PCI-X riser card for your server. That way you can still leverage the multitude of PCI-X options out there.

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