Creative Xi-Fi 5.1 USB for Mac OS X

#C Hi,
I just bought the new iMac 27" i7 and want to update the soundcard with an external one.
Is the Creative Xi-Fi 5. the best external solution I can get from Creative? And will it support Mac OS X Snow Leopard?
I have the Creative Gigaworks s750 surround set. It's a 7. set, but a 5. external surround card is ok, as I don't think i will find a 7. external sound card!
Please give me your thoughts!
thanks :-)

hi,
i don't know about the MAC OS suppport, but the support for "newer" windows is terrible, since some years, since Vista.
I use atm the onBoard sound for gaming. my very expensi've X-FI-Gaming-card is useless (and that hurts^^ so I try to sell it, and buy me a Xonar^^...without software support EAX is dead at all too, on a newer OS), because there are no good drivers & software without massi've sound-bugs for Win7. and this problem has nearly every Win7 user.
at the moment I would not buy so things before i know about realy working drivers

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