ExtremeTech reviews Philips' Ultimate Edge 5.1
Philips. Not a name that leaps to mind when you're talking about PC audio technology. Yet the company has been making PC sound cards for over five years ranging in quality from pretty mediocre to pretty good. None of the products has been an absolute strikeout, but there haven't been any home runs either. Philips bought out LSI's audio processor group several years ago. LSI made a PCI-based audio processor known as the Thunderbird. Several of Philips' sound cards leveraged this architecture, but it appears the time has come for Thunderbird to ride off into the sunset...
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