Physical failures in an on-board sound card can degrade the quality of your computer's audio output in degrees ranging from nagging feedback to complete failure. However, you aren't locked into your ...

It’s the question on everyone’s minds: Your PC can produce pretty decent audio without your having to spend a dime on new hardware, so why the heck are we advocating doing just that? Because you’ll ...

If these were the early 2000s. We would have said that having a sound card is a flex. With good reason, too. You'd slap one into your PC, crank up a media player, and pretend you were mastering audio.

I want to install a second sound card in my system. Why you ask? Because I need a gameport for my Sidewinder 3d Pro (joystick), and this is the cheapest solution since it is free. My current card is ...

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 ...

PC sound cards aren't as popular as they once were, and for good reason. Over the past few years, motherboard manufacturers ...

Very strange that your vid card has dicided that it wants irq 5 when the normal thing would be irq 11.sound cards genraly like irq 5.so try to force your vid card to use 11 were it should be.also a ...

In the past, sound cards were installed to expansion slots -- a socket on the motherboard to which additional hardware could be inserted -- but most modern computers now feature an integrated chipset ...