Best USB sound card for gaming under £100/$100: Epos Sennheiser GSX 300 Specs: 91x81x41mm, 160 grams, 2x 3.5mm Pros: Good sound stage, compact design, convenient controls.

Conversely, audio input via a sound card has been minimal and chat focused so analog to digital circuits have been pretty rudimentary. Most small audio interfaces support either 16-bit/48kHz or 24-bit ...

Beyond that, most certainly the ZxR components color sound their way, so does every sound output module, on a card or onboard. I just like the way it sounds and I could not reproduce it on the S1220.

Sound cards have been around for as long as I can remember and up until the introduction of DACs, there was no competition for them when it came to PC audio quality. Onboard audio is limited in ...

Today's onboard audio chips and USB sound devices are generally very good for what they are, but at least we now have a clearer picture of the conundrum. Worth buying a sound card? Yes or No.

As I already had the sound card, I thought I'd just make use of it. The only other consideration I had, was that as a result of wanting to use the card, I had to get a mobo with a PCI slot.

Before the AdLib sound card, sound on PCs was in a terrible shape. Since the dawn of IBM, all PCs included a speaker, but this PC speaker was only capable of sounding one note at a time. Chords on … ...

The AdLib Music Synthesizer Card was the first sound card for IBM PCs to gain widespread software support. It utilized a single Yamaha YM3812 FM synthesis chip to generate music and sound effects.

TheCreative Sound Blaster AE-7 is an excellent sound card for PC gaming, and it offers great value, along with being feature-rich. It can deliver up to 127Db of sound with no noise, and it is ...

Sound cards were expensive back then and, because the good ones weren’t very common, are expensive still for the retro gamer. But if you don’t need the real thing, [polpo] has you covered with ...