Pros

• Sound card built-in allows HDMI to send video and sound
• Retail boxes come with three games from Steam

Cons

• ATI’s top-of-the-line cards don’t perform as well as their NVIDIA competitors

Verdict
If you are an ATI fan and are looking for a video card in red to put into your gaming machine, the PowerColor HD 2900 XT is about as good as it gets right now. You can get more performance from NVIDIA, but ATI has put some appealing technology into the HD 2900 XT video cards like the onboard sound card, which can save you some room in a cramped gaming rig, or a media center PC. In the end if you want higher performance than ATI offers, NVIDIA has it.