Easton are making a big impact on both sound and video board makers. It's easy to see why. The integrated board sound and video are more than good enough for most general tasks you have, and will do quite well with many specialized tasks, including games. The question is whether you would recognize that increased performance or not. I believe that for most things you do, you will not.
Integrated video is good enough and getting better.
The integrated sound is also good enough. Speech played through the synthesizer is intelligible. Music sounds OK to me, but I am probably the wrong one to ask, since I can't really tell the difference between the best and good enough in sound boards. If I do, I will tell you. I know they are my first choice when I go to build a new system, and they probably should be yours.