The RX 9800 PRO is another card based on the RADEON 9800 PRO GPU that returned reasonable default resolution results, but slipped under in higher resolution synthetic benchmarking.

Think of sound cards and chances are you're probably thinking of Creative. Thanks to its phenomenally successful Sound Blaster line of cards, Creative is easily the leader of consumer PC audio. The Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum Ex is the latest in this range, and is by far the most feature rich. The question is do you need most of these features?

The Nomad Jukebox Zen is Creative-s go at aping the Apple iPod (November 2002, page 40), an MP3 player built around a notebook hard drive, and has done a remarkable job of it.

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With solid-state media still expensive and offering limited capacity, MP3 players with hard disks seem like the perfect solution.

Creative has raised the stakes again with the Audigy, this time from 16- to 24-bit sampling.

Creative has enjoyed a long reign as the driving force in consumer-grade PC audio for the better part of a decade.