For years, I treated motherboard audio as one of those PC features that simply existed in the background. As long as sound came through my headphones and my microphone worked well enough for Discord ...

Motherboard audio is good enough for most people. When it is not, the obvious upgrade is usually an external DAC or headphone amplifier: Easy to connect, easy to reach and easy to carry over to the ...

It's easy to trash motherboard audio — we've been doing it for decades. While it's true that on-board audio on motherboards used to be terrible, things have come a long way in the last 10 years.

I have a Dell Optiplex 980 on my desk at work. It outputs a high-pitched whine from the speaker-out. It's not that loud, but naturally it gets amplified when I turn up the volume on my amp. It's most ...

My music server (an old desktop PC) finally died and I'm looking to build a new box to replace it. Due to the age of my receiver, I need the new server to output digital audio via an S/PDIF coaxial ...

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