[Gloucs] Sound Cards

[John Kilgour]

Please can anyone give me some advice? I want to transfer my old LP records to 
CD. I know that I can connect the output from a turntable via a pre-amp to 
the sound input to my PC and my integrated sound card will digitise this and 
produce a sound file that I can write to a CD.

My system is a Packard Bell PC with an Athlon XP 2200+; 256MB ram and a 
Soundblast compatible sound chip on the Explorer motherboard. I run SuSE 10.0 
happily on it.
the SuSE Yast identifies it as:-

VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller
Configured as sound card number 0
Driver snd-via82xx

My question is; how good will the digital sound be with this on board chip? 
Should I get a separate Sound Card - and if so what type?

Thanks in advance

John Kilgour