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.

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 ...

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 ...

The other day, I received a strange error – No Audio Output Device is Installed on my new HP laptop recently. I saw it when I hovered my cursor over the sound icon ...

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 ...