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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A nice feature many Android devices offer is a microSD slot, and nicer still is the fact that the Android OS allows you to move many apps over to external storage to help free up space on the main ...

Cool keyboards are not reserved just for gamers. Hi, my name is Tom, and I’m a former gamer. There, I said it. I’m over 40, and I just don’t game very much anymore. Even when I do game these days, ...

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”, ...

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 ...

Gaming. Pastime for some, necessity for others. Yes, gaming is an integral part of everyday life on the PC and Vista promises to be a great OS for the job. Ignoring the fact of future DX10 games, does ...

If you’re interested in Windows performance, you may want to take a look at our experiences with the 3990X here. It’s been a lot of fun watching AMD and Intel duke it out over CPUs the past few years, ...

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 ...

Real-time ray tracing has been the holy grail of games and simulations for as long as they’ve been around. With each generation of hardware and software, there’s always been this nagging feeling of ...