ELSA ERAZOR X2 DDR GeForce

Conclusion

Sometimes making the final decision about any product is a very difficult one, in other cases, it couldn’t be easier.  The latter is about the level of difficulty we’ll have with pretty much all of the DDR GeForce boards on the market, since they’re all pretty much the same (they all closely resemble the same reference design).

The ERAZOR X² comes with ELSA’s trademark 6 year warranty which may or may not tilt the balance of the card in your buying favor, it also comes with a fairly unique software bundle.  Including OEM versions of CorelDraw 7 and CorelPhotoPaint 7 adds some value to the card itself, but for the most part, when purchasing a DDR GeForce board you should be attracted to its cost as the most important feature. 

With DDR SGRAM already running fairly high in price, expect to pay an added premium of $50 - $100 more than the SDR ERAZOR X for the X² version.  One thing the ERAZOR X² does guarantee you, as a result of ELSA’s attention to quality, is crisp 2D output at 1600 x 1200 which is often times very important to those users with larger monitors. 

All in all the ERAZOR X² isn’t a bad card, if you’re in the market for a DDR GeForce it’s a perfect candidate, but it won’t be the cheapest and is unfortunately a little harder to find in North America when compared to competing DDR products from Creative Labs and Hercules.