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 ...

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 ...

Sound cards have been a staple in PC gaming for years - whether they’re internal, external, or built into the USB connection of your fancy gaming headset. Today, we’re looking at a portable sound card ...

Stereophile magazine's John Atkinson loved the Asus Xonar Essence ST/STX sound cards. They are, by far, the least expensive way of turning a PC into a genuine high-resolution audio source. Ex-movie ...

Creative Labs’ Sound BlasterX AE-5 has a message for PC gamers: The sound card isn’t dead. Unveiled on Monday morning, this is the company’s first discrete product in more than five years, made ...

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Creative has a couple of new flagship sound cards to choose from. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. I get it, onboard audio in this ...

Well today the net is flooded with reviews for the brand spankin new Athlon64 FX-57 CPU(San Diego Core). Here at HH, Marco and Dave both had the pleasure of reviewing one of these bad boys, and of ...

You should know that this software works on specific hardware and is not available for all Sound Blaster devices. So, make sure to check if you have the specific hardware. However, you can always try ...

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 ...