"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 ...

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.

Ben has been testing and reviewing PC hardware and peripherals for over 12 years. He has a deep love and understanding of electronics in general. PC sound cards aren't as popular as they once were, ...