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 ...

I’d what you would call a constant shopper. I’m always scanning all the online stores for new releases… and it doesn’t matter that I know I don’t need any new parts, but I just can’t help myself. I ...

Last month, we published our look at one of ASUS’ popular P55 launch motherboards, the P7P55D PRO. Judging by model name alone, the board we’re taking a look at here doesn’t seem too different. In ...

Oh, the glamorous life of a hardware reviewer. The parties, the girls, the booze… well, I haven’t actually been to a sponsored party yet and the only girls I’ve seen are in pictures of the booth babes ...

A lot can be accomplished in three years. You could start a business, get married, have a child, build a house, watch the Lord of the Rings trilogy and walk across the entire United States. Or for the ...

AMD’s RDNA3 generation Radeon GPUs have arrived, and right out-of-the-gate, the company wanted to release not just one, but two models. Those include the Radeon RX 7900 XT, and the Radeon RX 7900 XTX.

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.

Will there ever be a day when we will be satisfied with our gaming mice? Not as long as Logitech is around. They release many new models per year, and one of the most recent has been the G3. In their ...

Cool keyboards are not reserved just for gamers. Hi, my name is Tom, and I’m a former gamer. There, I said it. I’m over 40, and I just don’t game very much anymore. Even when I do game these days, ...

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 ...

My first laptop was a hunk of junk that had about 20 minutes of battery life, took about 4 minutes to boot to a useable Windows 95 desktop, and would probably give you first-degree burns if you ...