For those who don't use Linux, or do use Linux but aren't aware, the audio system found within the OS is horrible. Not in quality, features or performance, but rather in configuration and execution.

A handful of months ago, AMD teamed up with the folks at CyberPowerPC to debut a $499 gaming rig that could endure the ultimate test: VR. A couple of months later, an upscaled version of that build ...

If there’s one thing that’s more true today than ever, it’s that you can get some incredible gaming performance for not too much money. Taking a look at a GPU like a GeForce 9600 GT can prove that. At ...

The latest iteration of GTC (GPU Technology Conference) has just kicked-off, and for the third year in a row, it’s coming to us in the form of an online-only event. Fortunately, it’s free for everyone ...

Get the latest GPU rendering benchmark results in our more up-to-date Blender 3.6 performance article. In our Blender 2.93 performance deep-dive posted months ago, we mentioned that we’d soon be ...

When ASUS launched its first Xonar audio card in the early fall of 2007, I wasn’t sure what to think. After all, ASUS wasn’t known as an audio company, and for good reason… the Xonar D2 was the ...

Seeing as how I obsess over hardware most of the time while I’m awake, I tend to visit a large number of online retailers to see what is on the market and for what price. If you’re like me, chances ...

This past April, AMD helped fill the Radeon HD 6000 series mainstream void with the HD 6790. Compared to the HD 5770 it was essentially succeeding, I felt the card should have been called HD 6830, as ...

I took an in-depth look at NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1080 a couple of weeks ago, and mentioned that there was more content en route. When I said that, I didn’t realize that the ever-elusive poltergeist in ...

Arc! The Herald Alchemists sing! Following on the launch of the first Arc desktop release in early June, Intel has finally rolled-out Alchemist’s top-end models – A750 and A770. The wait for these has ...

When I posted my look at NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX TITAN X at its launch last month, there were a couple of tests I had to skip over due to a lack of time, one of which was overclocking. As it is now, ...

She – err, I mean the company – was one of my first loves in this hobby. Back when I started building my own PCs in 2006, I wanted to buy one of its iconic PC-V2000 chassis and put my first Socket 939 ...