Can you teach an old card new tricks?

[Fledge]

Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI 64W (WDM)

This thing is in my brother's nine year old PC.
I only have integrated sound, and a 2.1 speaker and s/w thing.

Will the ancient card work in my one year old PC?
If it does, will there be much improvement?
How many PCI pins does it use?

Also, in the old PC there are 3 PCI cards, and I don't have a clue which one it is! (Well I know which one the graphics card is).
This is a long shot but I'll try anyway, does anyone have pics of the old thing?

Thanks

 

[Uriel]

Chances are your onboard (if half decent) will be as good as that old card. (D'oh - I meant much better than that old card)

Soundcards have come a long way in 10 years.

 

[Rroff]

Any half decent integrated soundcard from the last few years will be miles better, especially for gaming - that old soundblaster probably only supports something like 8 channels in hardware mixing. (Yes the specs say they had no hardware acceleration at all but this is wrong).

 

[Fledge]

I'll just let him have it then - thanks