oh bummer, i really need 1x PCI and 1x PCI-e so I can add a GT2xxx series car later if needs be...
And this
sound-card has a daughter board which also needs a spare PCI slot (doesn't actually plug into the port) so the extra 5.1 analogue-out ports (2.0 already on the main card) can poke through the PCI brackets.
So I may have to mod a case so that the daughter-board doesnt take up any PCI/e space...
Even then I still really need two PCI/e slots.... sigh