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.

Wesley has been passionate about technology from a young age, passion that led him to pursue a Bsc in Computer networking. His curiosity about how things work sparked an intrest in building PCs and ...

The Realtek ALC887 hides on countless mainstream motherboards, handling everyday PC sound without fuss. What the compact audio codec really offers, where its limits show in practice, and why investors ...