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 ...

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 ...

Installing the Maxi Sound Muse sound card was as easy as could be expected. After removing my old Creative PCI 128 and its drivers, I followed the hardware installation instructions as outlined in the ...

When it comes to configuring that new notebook computer, you have a lot of options to choose from. Everything from the screen size, processor, graphics, memory and hard drive can be optimized to fit ...

Inside the box, and a very nice packaging job by PowerColor. You get the Devil HDX main board, the 7.1 channel daughter card, dead-tree installation guide, driver CD ...

When building a rig, most builders optimize aspects of their PC such as the graphics, processing power, and storage space before sound. Yes, it is true that on-board sound has come a long way from ...