Most basic sound cards connect to the PC via a PCIe connection or a USB connection. To connect external peripherals like speakers or headphones, most come with 3.5mm input/output jacks.

Sound cards have been around for as long as I can remember and up until the introduction of DACs, there was no competition for them when it came to PC audio quality. Onboard audio is limited in ...

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 ...