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 ...

A computer motherboard supports audio via an onboard chip or an add-on sound card. Those that include a sound chip typically have expansion slots that allow you to install a more powerful sound card.

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 ...

I want to install a second sound card in my system. Why you ask? Because I need a gameport for my Sidewinder 3d Pro (joystick), and this is the cheapest solution since it is free. My current card is ...

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.

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 ...

PC sound cards aren't as popular as they once were, and for good reason. Over the past few years, motherboard manufacturers ...

I have a laptop that is a clone of the Dell Inspirion 5000. I have set up four hard drives with various installitions of different distros. Two of them have Suse v8.0 with KDE upgraded to v3.1. All ...

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 ...