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.

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 ...

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 ...

Get the latest GPU rendering benchmark results in our more up-to-date Blender 3.6 performance article. We’ve been publishing Blender performance articles for each major release dating back to 2.80, ...

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, ...

Growing up, my family had a then-new IBM 286 personal computer. My father was a high school math teacher and when asked, taught BASIC a period each day. In a spectacular deal between his school ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an article we’ve wanted to write for a while – one that introduces a third major GPU vendor that will become a regular feature in our performance testing. Since Techgage‘s launch in 2005, 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.

For those of you not turning your PC on for the first time, Logitech really needs no introduction. However, to be fair of those who might not know any better, Logitech has been a staple of the PC ...

This past Thursday, Valve out of the blue announced 64-Bit compatibility with Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Lost Coast. Don’t mistake this as a simple 64-Bit patch because it is actually a completely ...