Last week, we've completed a round up and comparison of socket 939 motherboards. The MSI K8N SLI Platinum is one of the first boards to offer Creative's Live! 24 bit as integrated audio. Infact, it is this very reason that made us recommend this motherboard. However, we didn't have time to really examine it. Today, we're going to see just how much better the Creative Live! 24 bit is to the competition - the ALC 850 codec and NVIDIA NForce 4 Sonata audio controller.