Physical installation of the Sound Blaster ZxR is a cinch as long as you're careful and pay attention to the slot you're trying to shove the main card into. You can use any available PCI-E slot -- 1x, ...

Needing little introduction, Creative Labs has been around for a long time in the PC audio industry, since basically the dawn of it all in fact. They offered first up the Sound Blaster 1.0 ...

Although graphic card technology has progressed rapidly the past few years, sound cards haven't kept up with the pace. Sure, we've seen audio enhancements such as EAX, 3D audio, and Dolby Digital 5.1 ...

It’s astonishing to think that Creative has been in the sound business for thirty years. In the early days of PC gaming, the Sound Blaster 16 was seen as an essential upgrade for any DOOM, Myst or ...

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 ...

It’s only been about a year since we reviewed Creative’s Sound Blaster Recon 3D soundcard and they’re back again with a new line of products, the Sound Blaster Z series. Today we’ll be reviewing the ...

Creative's Sound Blaster heritage is inextricably linked with PC gaming, and this year they're celebrating the 30th anniversary of the sound card with the shiny new Creative Sound Blaster AE-5 board.

When building a rig, most builders optimize aspects of their PC such as the graphics, processing power, and storage space before sound. Yes, it is true that on-board sound has come a long way from ...