Multiple soundcards feasib

I want to try a technique with Acid 5 which requires two sound cards. I have an Audigy 2 SZ in a Shuttle SP8P with no free expansion slots. I do, however, also have an NX.
I suppose I could just go ahead and try it, but I've often gotten the impression that multiple sound card setups on the same PC are problematic for various reasons.
I'm wondering if anyone has any advice on doing this.

Well, I've gone ahead and done it. It wasn't an issue with the software exactly, it was a question of whether the PC would install them properly. I've read various posts over the years regarding attempts to have an SB and and MAudio, for example, and difficulties getting the drivers to install correctly for each card (e.g. the MAudio installer will try to install its drivers into the SB card and so on). As with games that won't work with multiple CD-ROMs, it's probably the result of an assumption by driver developers that there will only be one card on the machine.
Really all I wanted to do was have another card that I could route through a hardware effects chain so as to play MIDI into the Acid track in real time with pedal effects. The Acid software should allow you to utilise both cards within the program as separate busses. As it happens, it doesn't seem to be enumerating the NX for some reason (although everything else does). Anyway, I could get a similar effect by playing the MIDI on my laptop and running it into the line in, but it wouldn't be as neat.
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