It’s the question on everyone’s minds: Your PC can produce pretty decent audio without your having to spend a dime on new hardware, so why the heck are we advocating doing just that? Because you’ll ...

Physical failures in an on-board sound card can degrade the quality of your computer's audio output in degrees ranging from nagging feedback to complete failure. However, you aren't locked into your ...

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 ...

I've got a win7 x64 system that I need a sound card for. Who else is making PC sound cards other then Sound Blaster brands? I've have poor results from 3 of SBs line up, I figure driver issues mainly.

Dedicated sound cards may be far less prevalent than they were in the early days of PC gaming but they haven’t disappeared completely. If you grew up building your own gaming computers, Creative and ...

Device drivers enable the computer hardware in a Dell PC to communicate with the operating system and the installed software. The sound card -- the component responsible for outputting audio through ...

Although graphic card technology has progressed rapidly the past few years, sound cards haven't kept up with the pace. Sure, we've seen audio enhancements such as EAX, 3D audio, and Dolby Digital 5.1 ...

At a time when many home computers included sophisticated hardware used to generate music and sound effects, IBM's first PC - designed primarily for small business use - only came equipped with a ...