Affordable RAID-5, X850 vs X800XL showdown

ONLYNEWZ compares five ATI X800XT PE cards. Apart from long names and distribution problems, those cards share all the good things from ATI X800 GPU. Gigabyte, Asus, Visiontek, Sapphire and Connect3D are present. Reviewing video cards using the same chipset is bound to produce the same result : boredom. All cards are within 2% of each other in most cases.

Sound Guru Site, 3D Sound surge reviews the Creative SB Audigy Pro card here. The Audigy family set the standard for the whole sound industry, being only recently to compete with the arrival of VIA's Envy, Intel's Azalia and nVIDIA Soundforce solutions. Will this prosumer card win your heart? Find it here.

Hardware.fr reviews the GT5051 classy speaker set from Altec Lansing. The advantage of this system is the fact that it uses 4.1 setup to emulate a surround system. Over three pages, see whether it succeeds in competing with traditional 5.1 setups.

GamePC explores hardware vs onboard Desktop RAID-5 in this second part of an article on this particular mission critical storage structure. As hard disk with more than 200GB storage are becoming more and more common, it makes sense to investigate ways to keep your data safe, secure and readily available.

Motherboards.org reviews the P5AD2-E motherboard from Asus. With a total of 98/100, it seems like a cracker. Based on the 925XE chipset, it overclocks like crazy and comes with loads of addons like WiFi LAN and Dual GB LAN.

Viperlair has a look at the Soltek EQ3901-300P SFF which with its yellow, silvery purple colour will certainly appeal to some and not to others. Watch out for the flying wings on the front. If you're looking for a socket 939 based SFF, watch out for one candidate here.

In an interesting twist, Bjorn3D puts the X850XT PE against the X800XL and provides us with a short taster of what to expect from a potential 6800GT kliller. With performance not lying too far from the X850XT PE, the X800XL is the one our eyes is watching closely. See it for yourself here.

RBMods plays with the MSI NX6800 Ultra graphics card and does not even ponder whether it is a good card or not. Apart from being expensive and loud, the card has so many pros that the reviewer gaves it a five star. Should we start having reviews without giving marks?