X-fi driver causes 6-8 degree celsius rise in my CPU Processor!!!

Heres the simple and short version of my problem:
I have a X-Fi Titanium Fatalty Pro Series PCI-E in an AMD Phenom 9950 Black processor, Gigibyte motherboard, with 2x 2 GB 066 Mhz sticks of OCZ ram.
When the SB driver is enabled it causes my core temperature of my processor to jump 6-8 degrees celsius. When disabled it drops immeadiately to back down to what it was before. The card is of course still in the motherboard, I have tried it in my friends computer and we get the same results. The driver is causing the core processor to jump in temperature significantly. I thought maybe it was my card so I took it back and switched it out for another, SAME THING. I switched out the motherboard, the ram and the cpu, same issues. All my drivers are up to date.
Here is the long version I sent to Creative tech support:
First off I want to say I love the way the card is built and designed and how it looks but the driver support could be much better. I have always liked creative products and have purchased mp3 players to speakers to sound cards in the past years.
That might change, I have never had more issues putting together a computer in EVER all because of this sound card. I bought put everything together and every single day I would get at least one blue screen error. I tried trouble shooting the WHOLE computer. I swapped out parts and figured it was the sound card. So I contacted tech support back in January. They tried to help me and told me what to do and I did what they said. I still had issues, so they figured it was the card itself and to see if I could swap it out at the store I bought it from or warranty it out for another. I did the first of those and tried it out and still had the issue. So I figured, well maybe its my motherboard that does not like this sound card. So I bought a new motherboard, still got the blue screen error with the sound card. I put up with the issue for sometime hoping a driver my take care of the problem. Well about 3 or 4 weeks ago a driver came out and fixed the blue screen problem ( the release notes failed to even mention such a fix in it) . There is a major problem still and the driver is at blame. My CPU processor jumps about 6 degrees celsius turning my computer into a heater when enabled. When I disabled the driver in the driver management window the temperature drops dramatically. I either want this fixed soon or I want my 49.99 back that I paid for this item.So, tech support responded back and was no help at all. Has anyone else noticed this issue and anyone have any idea around it's The only thing I can think of is that there is a major flaw in the driver design that creative has put out.

Not familiar with youp-pax. Found them on the web. Do they install like the regular creative driver pack or do I unpack and install through device manager?Also test the X-Fi in another PC with XP. Works beautifully so it must be a vista/driver incompatibility issue. I also tested the 2/28 "beta" driver. Installed and now my PC does not recognize the X-Fi card. Uninstalled these and ran driver cleaner, still no go. Will I need to remove my card, clear cmos, reboot...and then install the card, clear cmos, and reboot to recover? Or is there a simpler way?

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