Just buying a new case won't help. The mainboard still has only 2 PCI slots, one of which is blocked by the graphics card fan. You'd need a new mainboard too. A fully external Audigy 2 is probably the easiest solution. Another thing is that controller card connected to the drives. Do you have your drives in a RAID array, is that it? That would be an explanation for the presence of that card. If that's the case, you could opt for breaking the RAID array and plugging the drive cables into the ATA slots on the mainboard. Then the controller card isn't needed anymore and you can replace it with a good sound card. On the other hand, if the mainboard has only parallel ATA connectors (standard on older mainboards) and your drives are Serial ATA, you have a problem - then you NEED that controller card and the only viable option is an external USB audio card.

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