Lol Netham45. Personally I had no issues with the realtek soundcard I had on my old computer. I liked how it let me record from computer speakers, which most new sound cards lacks (you need to use Fraps on a muted game/video while playing some sounds in another app like Audacity, then convert the AVI to wav/mp3). However, my old sound card was slow when it came to creating music with advanced softwares. With more than 6 tracks with VST instruments, it lagged like crazy.