I have a Dell Optiplex 980 on my desk at work. It outputs a high-pitched whine from the speaker-out. It's not that loud, but naturally it gets amplified when I turn up the volume on my amp. It's most ...

It's easy to trash motherboard audio — we've been doing it for decades. While it's true that on-board audio on motherboards used to be terrible, things have come a long way in the last 10 years.

CES 2012: The Republic of Gamers team is pretty damn awesome, not only do they make some truly kick arse motherboards, but they also have gaming accessories like keyboards, mice and headsets and are ...

My music server (an old desktop PC) finally died and I'm looking to build a new box to replace it. Due to the age of my receiver, I need the new server to output digital audio via an S/PDIF coaxial ...

One of those motherboard features that never really mattered much is the onboard audio circuitry. Let's not forget that it wasn't really a thing until the AC'97 audio standard became widespread in the ...

We had to check the calendar when we saw that EVGA had announced a new sound card, and sure enough, it's 2019. Sure, we're barely into 2019, but the fact that a major hardware player is getting into ...

The purpose of adding an expansion card or board to a computer's motherboard is to add or expand some sort of functionality to the computer that it did not have before. Expansion cards are a way to ...

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 ...

Maybe PC audio is still important after all. At CES 2019 on Tuesday, EVGA introduced Nu Audio, its first-ever sound card with claims that it will bring “lifelike gaming” to your ears. EVGA partnered ...

Not all computers are designed the same way. Though two computers in your office may have on-board graphics chipsets, it may be that only one of them would take a video card. The devil is in the ...