You wouldn't be the first person to think the DG is pants with a "5.1" headset. I've seen someone else say they found it to be poor with 5.1 speakers.
Seems it's best used with 2.0/2.1, rather than 5.1.
Having owned both, the DG is the better card. It sounds better than the Audigy SE, but then I've only used it for stereo.
Any 7.1 sound card will work with 5.1, as you just change the output to 5.1.
You may have to use Daniel K modified drivers for the Audigy SE, to get it to work in Win 7, assuming you are using that OS.
You did criticise Asus in your other thread, well Creative are worse IMO. For years they left people with dodgy drivers once Vista came out, and didn't seem bothered at all. It took Daniel K to sort them out and get them working properly, for a lot of people.
They also decided to abandon people with older cards, preferring people to buy their nice new shiny cards, rather than use an old Audigy's. Hence, why I said you may have to use modified drivers. The SE has being doing the rounds for more than 10 years now, in one guise or another. Creative just repackaged a card that isn't even an Audigy.
Neither company is great, when it comes to drivers. Both needing modified drivers to work properly, for a fair number of people.
