Always check motherboard compatibility before buying a PCIe card. You might think that sound cards and other audio add-ins are defunct… and you wouldn’t necessarily be wrong. Few people really ...

and receive a reproduction of the first successful sound card. All the files are up on Github should you want to build your own. Now all we need is someone making modern 486 motherboards.

I f you've been a PC user for a while, you might remember the days when a sound card was an essential part of building a gaming PC. It was the only way to ensure quality audio out ...

Taking considerably less space than digital audio, MIDI files require a wavetable synthesizer on the card, which holds digitized samples of the instruments. See MIDI.

A solution for some sensors comes courtesy of [Ruslan Nagimov], who shows us how the PC sound card can become a measurement interface. The idea is that simple resistive or capacitive sensors can ...