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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

In recent months, we’ve published a fair bit of content revolving around rendering performance of AMD’s and NVIDIA’s latest GPUs, but have only delved as far as Blender for viewport performance. In ...