| Below is a list of articles with the most recent ones listed first. |
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How to Choose a Sound Card by MDofPC |
Topic: Sound Cards |
| This article will help you with your decision by elaborating on the different factors to consider when buying that new sound card. Armed with this information, you'll be able to make better purchase decisions |
| Published: Sunday 26 April, 2009 |
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Sound Cards - part 1 by MDofPC |
Topic: Sound Cards |
| Sound is a relatively new capability for PCs because no-one really considered it when the PC was first designed. The original IBM-compatible PC was designed as a business tool, not as a multimedia machine, so it's hardly surprising that nobody thought of including a dedicated sound chip in its archi... |
| Published: Friday 27 April, 2007 |
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Sound Cards - part 10 by MDofPC |
Topic: Sound Cards |
| PCI audio chips started to emerge during 1996 and are either integrated on the motherboard or on a card in a PCI expansion slot. By mid-1998 a trend towards PCI cards providing enhanced features for both gaming and music applications had become firmly established. As greater demands are made on audi... |
| Published: Friday 27 April, 2007 |
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Sound Cards - part 11 by MDofPC |
Topic: Sound Cards |
| Swiss semiconductor company Micronas has developed a technology which could render the sound card obsolete on future multimedia PC systems. Its USB audio controller integrates a DSP, DAC, operation amplifier, and a USB controller into an external unit which contains everything required to balance a ... |
| Published: Friday 27 April, 2007 |
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Sound Cards - part 12 by MDofPC |
Topic: Sound Cards |
| While of only indirect relevance to "sound cards", a place has to be found somewhere for a technology that took the PC world by storm in the first half of 1999 - and this seems to be the most appropriate. |
| Published: Friday 27 April, 2007 |
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Sound Cards - part 2 by MDofPC |
Topic: Sound Cards |
| The modern PC sound card contains several hardware systems relating to the production and capture of audio, the two main audio subsystems being for digital audio capture and replay and music synthesis along with some glue hardware. |
| Published: Friday 27 April, 2007 |
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Sound Cards - part 3 by MDofPC |
Topic: Sound Cards |
| The first widespread technology to be used in sound cards was Frequency Modulation, or FM, which was developed in the early 1970s by Dr John Chowning of Stanford University. FM synthesisers produce sound by generating a pure sine wave, known as a carrier, and mix it with a second waveform, known as ... |
| Published: Friday 27 April, 2007 |
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Sound Cards - part 4 by MDofPC |
Topic: Sound Cards |
| Since 1998, when the fashion was established by Creative Technology's highly successful SoundBlaster Live! card, many soundcards have enhanced connectivity via use an additional I/O card, which fills a 5.25in drive blanking plate and is connected to the main card using a short ribbon cable. |
| Published: Friday 27 April, 2007 |
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Sound Cards - part 5 by MDofPC |
Topic: Sound Cards |
| As well as producing sound, sound cards double-up as CD-ROM interfaces, supporting the three proprietary interfaces for Sony, Mitsumi and Panasonic drives in addition to the increasingly popular SCSI and IDE/EIDE standards. |
| Published: Friday 27 April, 2007 |
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Sound Cards - part 6 by MDofPC |
Topic: Sound Cards |
| Originally developed in 1997 in collaboration NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) for use in flight simulators, Aureal's A3D technology has subsequently progressed through a number of versions. |
| Published: Friday 27 April, 2007 |
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