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.

They’re out there. The minimalists. People who almost pathologically prefer simple, elegant solutions over larger, more complex ones, simply by virtue of their simplicity. If it’s not bad enough that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

As hard as it is to believe, a launch of a brand-new Windows OS is right around the corner. Despite having only been announced in June, Windows 11 is set to launch in less than a month – October 5, to ...

The latest iteration of GTC (GPU Technology Conference) has just kicked-off, and for the third year in a row, it’s coming to us in the form of an online-only event. Fortunately, it’s free for everyone ...

This past April, AMD helped fill the Radeon HD 6000 series mainstream void with the HD 6790. Compared to the HD 5770 it was essentially succeeding, I felt the card should have been called HD 6830, as ...

Logitech, no introduction needed, has been the go-to company for computer and gaming peripherals for many years. On occasion, the company does a product refresh, covering the same price point but ...

A couple of months ago, I refreshed Techgage‘s gaming GPU test rig, using Corsair’s Crystal 570X mid-tower chassis to wrap the gear up in. Some people called me crazy because I chose to use a chassis ...

In the past, we've taken a look at the latest hardware statistics of PC gamers with the help of Valve's Steam platform, and going forward, I'd like to begin doing that monthly. Steam is currently the ...

After spending quite a number of hours testing AMD’s Radeon RX Vega in both gaming and compute workloads, I wondered if there was some other interesting angle I could take a look at the card from.