I'm moving to 64-bit Vista Ultimate on my new computer (I can revert to XP with less RAM if I hate it). I could use a recommendation on a new sound card please. I play DX9 games and listen to stereo ...

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.

I dunno, might be worth a shot once before it was all put together... Our failure rate for onboard sound isn't THAT bad - but again to be fair we don't extensively ...

Ben has been testing and reviewing PC hardware and peripherals for over 12 years. He has a deep love and understanding of electronics in general. PC sound cards aren't as popular as they once were, ...

Madeline (She/Her) is a PC Author at XDA with 13 years of experience in tech journalism. She focuses on gaming, computer hardware, components, and software. Audio and desktop PCs have a long history ...

Audio Blast From the Past: Creative Technology doesn't believe the sound card market is completely dead yet. The Singapore-based company has announced a new discrete audio solution, urging users to ...