Needing little introduction, Creative Labs has been around for a long time in the PC audio industry, since basically the dawn of it all in fact. They offered first up the Sound Blaster 1.0 ...

Physical installation of the Sound Blaster ZxR is a cinch as long as you're careful and pay attention to the slot you're trying to shove the main card into. You can use any available PCI-E slot -- 1x, ...

The Sound Blaster X-Fi Go! makes for a nice upgrade to any notebook that is lacking high quality audio, and the device's USB connectivity makes sure no user is left out. Even desktop users could ...

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 ...

I’ve been using sound cards ever since my introduction to the Sound Blaster 16 way back in ’93. I couldn’t ever imagine gaming on a system without one. Even with onboard soundcards becoming the de ...

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 ...

Dedicated sound cards provide better audio quality, more features and more stable drivers than on-board audio, but most of us aren't prepared to pay the Earth for one, particularly if we spend more ...

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 ...