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.

The current hotness surrounding PC gaming at the moment is, without a doubt, keyboards with mechanical keys. Out of nowhere, peripheral makers from all over have begun releasing one or more models, no ...

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 ...

As we inch close to the midway point of the ongoing Formula 1 season, Codemasters has let the latest iteration of its tie-in series loose: F1 2021. This update includes current rosters, cars, and ...

For me, building a computer is much more about the details than just the flash. Like most of you, I always try to focus on the fastest CPU, the most memory, and a robust chassis. Build after build, I ...

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 ...

This past September, Intel released a follow-up to its successful Nehalem architecture, called Lynnfield. Throughout its launch campaign, Intel touted Lynnfield as being “Nehalem for the mainstream”, ...

I’d what you would call a constant shopper. I’m always scanning all the online stores for new releases… and it doesn’t matter that I know I don’t need any new parts, but I just can’t help myself. I ...

When I was in the market for a new sound card, I immediately thought about buying an Audigy 2 ZS. To my surprise, friends kept telling me to get a Chaintech AV-710 instead, which costs less than half ...

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 ...

A couple of weeks ago, we posted a look at ASUS’ VivoBook X202E, a modest notebook that came just shy of earning itself “Ultrabook” status. Despite its lacking performance, we ended up loving ...