Onboard audio has gotten decent over the past decade. Motherboard manufacturers have been quietly dropping better Realtek ...

Games are more than just an interactive visual experience. The time and effort that developers spend in creating and incorporating immersive audio and soundtracks are not experienced to their fullest ...

Affordable PCIe Audio Done Right? There was a time when dedicated sound cards were a default component in any enthusiast-grade PC build. Over the past decade, however, integrated motherboard audio has ...

If you have been building or supporting PCs for any length of time (twenty-plus years) then you have likely heard of Creative Labs, it's a brand well known for its Sound Blaster audio cards. I had ...

If these were the early 2000s. We would have said that having a sound card is a flex. With good reason, too. You'd slap one into your PC, crank up a media player, and pretend you were mastering audio.

An affordable external sound card proved to be more than an impulse buy, massively enhancing my sonic experience and ...

I just inserted an Asus Xonar SE ($69) sound card. It works in a new Intel i5-12400 boxen. I spend enough time in the office to listen to sound and music through a more than decent Yamaha / Dynaudio ...

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Audio Blast From the Past: Creative Technology doesn't believe the sound card market is completely dead yet. The Singapore-based company has announced a new discrete audio solution, urging users to ...

I'm looking for a device to add 5.1 surround to my PC. The AMD APU doesn't support 5.1 over HDMI for whatever reason, only stereo, or I'd use my normal HDMI optical audio extractor as usual. I have a ...