Whether or not adding a sound card makes sense really depends on how you're regularly using your PC.

Games are more than just an interactive visual experience. The time and effort that developers spend in creating and incorporating immersive audio and soundtracks are not experienced to their fullest ...

"I can't tell the direction of footsteps in FPS games," "My PC audio sounds muffled," "I was told my voice chat audio is full ...

You've got your trusty wired PC headphones and a computer primed for best sonic performance. But a quick glance reveals two connection portals: the friendly old headphone jack and a modern USB ...

If these were the early 2000s. We would have said that having a sound card is a flex. With good reason, too. You'd slap one into your PC, crank up a media player, and pretend you were mastering audio.

Marc Storch is a commerce writer currently based in Denver, Colorado. He is passionate about making tech accessible to all and being excellent to each other. Outside of writing about tech and video ...

And it's all Windows' fault.

Madeline (She/Her) is a PC Author at XDA with 13 years of experience in tech journalism. She focuses on gaming, computer hardware, components, and software. Audio and desktop PCs have a long history ...