Physical failures in an on-board sound card can degrade the quality of your computer's audio output in degrees ranging from nagging feedback to complete failure. However, you aren't locked into your ...

Device drivers enable the computer hardware in a Dell PC to communicate with the operating system and the installed software. The sound card -- the component responsible for outputting audio through ...

Dedicated sound cards may be far less prevalent than they were in the early days of PC gaming but they haven’t disappeared completely. If you grew up building your own gaming computers, Creative and ...

When it comes to configuring that new notebook computer, you have a lot of options to choose from. Everything from the screen size, processor, graphics, memory and hard drive can be optimized to fit ...