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.

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 ...

NVIDIA had some bold claims when it announced its Ada Lovelace GeForce generation a couple of weeks ago. If you were to ignore those claims, and just stick to the paper specs, even that implied that ...

The new GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card from NVIDIA doesn’t hold many secrets, largely in part to the fact that the company revealed the specs for its first three Ampere GeForces from the get-go. That ...

During the virtually-held Computex earlier this month, NVIDIA announced both its sixth and seventh Ampere-based GeForces: RTX 3080 Ti, and RTX 3070 Ti. We took a look at the RTX 3080 Ti last week with ...

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 ...

Following on the publishing of our look at AMD’s newest RDNA3-based Radeon RX 7900 XT and Radeon RX 7900 XTX GPUs in 4K gaming, we’re going to be turning our attention here to the creator side of the ...

External hard drive enclosures are a dime a dozen, but those that build in wireless functionality are not. So I had great interest when I discovered Vantec’s just-launched NexStar WiFi dock, one that ...

Last month, we published our look at one of ASUS’ popular P55 launch motherboards, the P7P55D PRO. Judging by model name alone, the board we’re taking a look at here doesn’t seem too different. In ...

After what has to be considered one heck of a wait, AMD has finally launched its much-anticipated ‘Big Navi’ (RDNA2) graphics cards – starting with the Radeon RX 6800, and Radeon RX 6800 XT. As ...

As hard as it is to believe, a launch of a brand-new Windows OS is right around the corner. Despite having only been announced in June, Windows 11 is set to launch in less than a month – October 5, to ...

It’s full-tower review time again! This time around we have the latest and hopefully greatest from Thermaltake, the Chaser MK-1. This case was previewed at Computex in Taiwan earlier this year and has ...