Today's onboard sound vs. X-Fi Titanium

[Sumanji]

Hey,

I'm putting together a component list for a new gaming machine and I'm wondering if onboard audio on high end motherboards today (e.g. an ASRock X470 Taichi Ultimate) is better than an old sound card I have (X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro)?

I play a lot of FPS (PUBG, CSS) so positional audio is pretty important to me - I don't really know much about audio, so please shine your wisdom on me

Cheers,

Su

(P.S. Even though it's like ~8 years old, the X-Fi seems to have Windows 10 drivers available).

 

[Sumanji]

...however when it got to around 10 years old was definitely starting to degrade in quality

Ah interesting; do you mean physical degradation? Like maybe the caps on it were getting old or something? Or just software not keeping up?

Cheers,

Su