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20 articles tagged as soundcard

Little Nightmares 2 Review

A prequel done right, even if it won't keep you up all night.

March 4, 2021 | 09:12

The 10 Best Space Sims

Rick counts down the best games about venturing into the great beyond.

March 2, 2021 | 09:01

Aquaceras Part 10 - Making Custom DDC Heatsinks

Aquaceras lives! But it needs some DDC heatsinks to survive.

February 26, 2021 | 22:15

Mad Catz offloads Tritton audio brand

New owners look to streamline.

July 16, 2018 | 10:00

Creative Technologies announces Sound BlasterX AE-5

RGB LED controller built-in.

June 13, 2017 | 11:33

Asus announces Strix soundcard family

Includes Raid Mode functionality.

September 11, 2015 | 12:09

Asus Xonar HDAV 1.3 Slim Review

The HDAV Slim is an affordable, half-height sound card for HD audio. It doesn't monkey around with compressing or 'enhancing' the audio on your Blu-ray disc, it just delivers pure, unadulterated HD audio goodness to your speakers or amp.

August 22, 2009 | 09:27

Creative shrinks workforce by half

Creative has revealed in a financial filing that it lost almost half its workforce during the last financial year as it struggled to compete in a competitive and shrinking marketplace.

January 5, 2009 | 09:08

The bit-tech Hardware Awards 2008

Earlier in the week, we published the best games of the year and today it's time to look back at what's happened in the technology industry over the last year. Find out which products are the best of the year, and also which innovations have caught our eye during 2008.

January 2, 2009 | 17:56

bit-tech Mod of the Year 08 Winner No.2

We've got our second winner for the Mod of the Year competition to reward those of you who took the time to vote. Check out if you won inside!

December 28, 2008 | 11:38

bit-tech Mod of the Year 08 Winner No.1

Our mod of the year is well under way, and to reward those of you who took the time to vote we've got our first winner.

December 27, 2008 | 12:57

Asus Maximus II Formula Competition

Another week, another competition here at bit-tech! Win an Asus Maximus II Formula motherboard, Radeon HD 4850 or GeForce 9600 GT Republic of Gamers graphics cards by answering just a simple question.

August 11, 2008 | 14:49

Asus Xonar DX

Asus Xonar DX is the inexpensive version of the full fat PCI-Express Xonar D2X. Now featuring an extended emulated EAX in addition to Dolby features and high quality components, does this make the Xonar DX the ultimate soundcard?

May 26, 2008 | 08:45

Imperium Romanum Competition

We've teamed up with Kalypso Media to bring you a chance to win a free game and top of the range soundcard. All that we're asking is the answer to one simple question!

February 14, 2008 | 13:08

Asus Xonar D2X - PCI-Express soundcard

Finally, an enthusiast's soundcard that supports PCI-Express is available, some four years after the interconnect's inception! We throw on some cans and take the latest Asus Xonar D2X with its funky lights and black EMI shield for a spin.

January 13, 2008 | 06:15

PC Audio 101

The MP3 is by far the most popular way to listen to music on your PC, but it's not the best way. We have a look at lossless audio and explain how to get the most out of your music.

September 12, 2007 | 11:56

Asus Xonar D2

Asus has hit the sound card market with all guns blazing, but should the mighty Creative start sweating as another computing behemoth lands the heavyweight Xonar D2 into the PC audio market?

September 3, 2007 | 04:19

Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer

The Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer is a recent addition to the very popular X-Fi family, but for its very affordable price, is it worthy of investment if you're an "xtreme" gamer?

July 1, 2007 | 14:16

Asus soundcard launches, gets a name

COMPUTEX 2007: The Asus Xonar D2 now features a few more lights, and a lot more product details. We grabbed some pics of the final product, its box and the low down of what goes on inside.

June 8, 2007 | 01:40

Creative Gigaworks T20 speakers

Conventional wisdom suggests that 2.0 speakers are underpowered and lacking bass. Conventional wisdom crumbles in the face of Creative's awesome Gigaworks T20 speakers.

May 15, 2007 | 13:33

HT Omega Claro soundcard

Today, we have a look at another soundcard based on CMedia's Oxygen HD chip. However, this time the card comes from HT Omega and is packed with more features. The question is though, is it a more attractive solution than Sondigo's Inferno?

March 9, 2007 | 12:00

bit-tech mods wow CeBIT crowds

CeBIT 2006: Visitors to Creative's stand in Hall 23 are in for a special treat this year: a trio of bit-tech case mods to drool over. We built these custom rigs to promote the new X-Fi soundcard range.

March 10, 2006 | 16:48

Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS

Creative are back with a new high-end soundcard for gamers. With 64MB of RAM on board, as well as new technology for recreating surround sound through headphones, is this a kick in the teeth for motherboard audio?

October 31, 2005 | 11:05