Add in board partners to the likes of NVIDIA and ATI need to do something special to their products to differentiate them from the competition. You'd expect a graphics card from Crucial, makers of high quality RAM, and kings of customer satisfaction, to be cream of the crop. However, this Hexus review suggests that while the card is good, it's nothing special compared to any already on the market. Still, regardless of whether it stands from the competition, you can't go wrong with Crucial kit. So, if you want a new speedy graphics card, the review may be worth checking out. Snip: It's safe to say that any card, and I mean any card, based on the R420 GPU will be a good one. Greater rendering parallelism and higher core and memory speeds ensure that benchmark performance will be stellar. That point of view is corroborated by decent benchmark results from Crucial's X800 PRO. If, then, all X800 PROs are considered to be 'good', what makes one better than another?. What immediately springs to mind are cards that arrive pre-clocked at higher-than-default levels, or ones that bundle in the very latest games, or, for most buyers, the ones that are the cheapest.

Crucial fails to hit the mark when evaluated on any of these criterias. That's the problem right there.