I have an old Sound Blaster Live! CT4780, pulled from a very old dell, and I was wondering how the quality would compare to my current integrated AC'97 Audio.

How old is your current PC?

This kid seems to be popular for the review of it
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/927919/3899496

Year and a half old. Here is the exact audio chipset

What operating system was on the old machine and which one do you have on yours now?

Generally sound cards are better then integrated audio (sometimes by a slight difference).

There seems to be a few of the Sound Blaster Live CT4780 that have 5.1 surround sound, if so then that would definitely be a lot better

The old machine was windows 98.

I believe my os and other specs are in my profile, and there is a quick link under my details on the right of my posts

It is the 5.1 version, but that does not necessarily mean it is better, as it is over 8 years old, and my current one is a year and a half old.

Haha,

I'd probably say that Vista won't support that card and since its 8 years

I'd stick with the integrated sound

Sorry! Didn't realise it was that old >.<

Well, the manufacturer still has the drivers on it's website. But it would probably not make too much of a difference quality wise, and wouldn't be worth the hastle.

Why not buy a more recent soundblaster?, I just went from my onboard to a 5.1 XFI for rather cheap actually

Would never go back, I'm in love with it

Well, the problem with buying things, is that it costs money...

Anyway, I was only asking because I found it burried in my box of old computer parts when I was cleaning it out.

There's no harm in trying it out. With Vista, it shouldn't cause any problems with having two sound cards.

Are there Vista drivers for it though?

It has xp, but no vista, so it might work, but no guarantees. From reading some other forums, it seems people also have issues when you have over 2 gigs of ram.