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.

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 ...

In Win isn’t exactly a common name at Techgage. Only twice have we looked at anything they produce, the latest being JD’s take on its 707, and the first being all the way back in 2009 when we put the ...

ASUS’ goals for its DELUXE series of motherboards have never been hard to surmise. Outside of the usual “stable” and “overclockable”, “DELUXE” has long meant that a board is seriously feature-packed, ...

It seems like external hard drives are everywhere these days, and are perpetually growing larger in capacity and smaller in size. Competition is fierce, with almost any drive on the shelf coming ...

After what has to be considered one heck of a wait, AMD has finally launched its much-anticipated ‘Big Navi’ (RDNA2) graphics cards – starting with the Radeon RX 6800, and Radeon RX 6800 XT. As ...

Unless you’ve actively been ignoring all sources of tech news and discussion on the internet, you’re probably aware that NVIDIA released its first Ampere-powered GeForce last week. To say the launch ...

The most expensive part we’ll see from this launch is the Core i7-2600K, at $317. It’s a quad-core offering that features eight threads and is clocked at 3.40GHz. Like the Clarkdale models released ...

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 ...

For as long as there have been game consoles, there have been third party peripherals. This is a good thing. It offers choice, instead of the consumer being locked into whatever the console ...

The new GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card from NVIDIA doesn’t hold many secrets, largely in part to the fact that the company revealed the specs for its first three Ampere GeForces from the get-go. That ...

One of the top contenders for “Most Underappreciated PC Component†definitely has to be the sound card. When it comes to spending money on upgrading our rigs, pristine sound quality typically takes ...