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Type: Blog post Tags: Multimedia

Nvidia announced its Enthusiast System Architecture back in November, promising to consolidate system and hardware monitoring under a single communication protocol. ESA-certified hardware is now...

Type: Feature article Tags: Systems Software

Windows Vista has largely changed the game for PC audio solutions, and two new sound cards are set to challenge Creative's dominance of the market....

Type: Feature article Tags: Multimedia

Okay, Intel didn't actually spoil my entire vacation, but it came awfully close. To understand why, you need to go back a couple of months:...

Type: Blog post Tags: Motherboards Multimedia Windows

Back in November we explored EAX performance with onboard audio and discovered that Realtek's HD audio drivers weren't properly implementing occlusion and obstruction effects....

Type: Blog post Tags: Software

LAUNCHED BACK IN 2001, Apple's iPod has arguably become the most iconic electronic device...

Type: Feature article Tags: Multimedia

I've been playing S.T.A.L.KE.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl these past few days....

Type: Blog post Tags: Software

WHEN ABIT WAS ACQUIRED last year, the new owners pruned the company's product line...

Type: Feature article Tags: Multimedia

CREATIVE HAS ALL BUT OWNED the market for PC audio cards since it introduced...

Type: Feature article Tags: Multimedia

I spent most of last night conducting a round of extensive listening tests for an upcoming article, and after far too much fiddling, I've come...

Type: Blog post Tags: Multimedia

IF THE LAUNCH OF Intel's new quad-core Core 2 Extreme QX6700 processor has made...

Type: Feature article Tags: Gaming Software

ANALOG DEVICES RECENTLY published a document challenging reviewers not only to benchmark...

Type: Feature article Tags: Multimedia

IT'S RARE THAT a new product completely outclasses its competition, but that's what...

Type: Feature article Tags: Multimedia

FOR A WHILE THERE, the PC audio market was pretty boring. Creative had...

Type: Feature article Tags: Multimedia

OVER THE PAST WEEK we've seen a deluge of Counter-Strike: Source performance articles....

Type: Feature article Tags: Multimedia

IN WHAT SEEMS LIKE no time at all, VIA's Envy24 audio controller has...

Type: Feature article Tags: Multimedia

Mad Dog Multimedia's Entertainer 7.1 is one of the first discrete sound cards to...

Type: Feature article Tags: Multimedia

ASK ME ABOUT THE COOLEST piece of technology I've bought in the...

Type: Feature article Tags: Software