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 ...

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 ...

Creative's Sound BlasterX G5 external USB 7.1 sound card is great for perking up lower grade headsets, but it's hard to justify buying this product when you can just spend more on a headset. This ...

At the beginning of the year, EVGA surprised us by releasing a discrete audio solution, adding yet another product notch to its belt. Now as we get ready to enter 2020, EVGA is again launching a ...

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 ...

Creative’s new BlasterX H7 is a solid gaming headset. With so many options to choose from, picking the right headset can be a daunting task. Creative, the audio company best known for its PC sound ...

Before the release of the Intel AC '97 standard, computer sound was frequently an add-on feature. To use anything other than a small, monophonic internal speaker, you'd need to buy a card that plugged ...

Discrete audio might not be as sexy or even necessary as it once was, but for those who demand higher end sound, Asus continues to answer the call. It's newest product, the Xonar U7 MKII, is a compact ...

2. There's no way to get 7.1 or better audio from an external device into the PC for playback through the PC's audio system. There's no eARC/ARC into a PC, PC sound cards can't decode 5.1 over SPDIF, ...