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 ...

NVIDIA had some bold claims when it announced its Ada Lovelace GeForce generation a couple of weeks ago. If you were to ignore those claims, and just stick to the paper specs, even that implied that ...

This past April, AMD helped fill the Radeon HD 6000 series mainstream void with the HD 6790. Compared to the HD 5770 it was essentially succeeding, I felt the card should have been called HD 6830, as ...

Gaming. Pastime for some, necessity for others. Yes, gaming is an integral part of everyday life on the PC and Vista promises to be a great OS for the job. Ignoring the fact of future DX10 games, does ...

Rob founded Techgage in 2005 to be an 'Advocate of the consumer', focusing on fair reviews and keeping people apprised of news in the tech world. Catering to both enthusiasts and businesses alike; ...

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.

They’re out there. The minimalists. People who almost pathologically prefer simple, elegant solutions over larger, more complex ones, simply by virtue of their simplicity. If it’s not bad enough that ...

Real-time ray tracing has been the holy grail of games and simulations for as long as they’ve been around. With each generation of hardware and software, there’s always been this nagging feeling of ...

This past Thursday, Valve out of the blue announced 64-Bit compatibility with Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Lost Coast. Don’t mistake this as a simple 64-Bit patch because it is actually a completely ...

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 ...

Following on the publishing of our look at AMD’s newest RDNA3-based Radeon RX 7900 XT and Radeon RX 7900 XTX GPUs in 4K gaming, we’re going to be turning our attention here to the creator side of the ...

Every GeForce generation needs an X080 Ti model, and with Computex acting as a backdrop, NVIDIA revealed that now is the time to introduce the latest: RTX 3080 Ti. As with previous generation models, ...