The newer Intel motherboards are indeed decent. It is easy enough to try anyway. Install it and see if standard Microsoft drivers make it work. If you get the Creative drivers be sure to go in their control panel and disable stuff they turn on especially forced resampling which I find awful. Then you can go in the sound control panel and set that or your current motherboard as default and compare. You need to start and stop playing music so there is a bit of delay but should be able to make a good assessment.