A £40 graphics card? Surely that's as useful as a chocolate teapot? We take a look at AMD's latest and cheapest Radeon from the HD 5000 series, the HD5450, see how it stacks up against integrated graphics and find out in what situations it might be a great buy.
February 9, 2010 | 08:09After being impressed by the AMD's new ATI Radeon 4770 HD 512MB graphics card, we're taking a look at our first partner design from Gigabyte. At £88 it's more expensive than both the reference design and other models on the market, so we take a look at what we get for our extra few quid.
May 12, 2009 | 09:09AMD has released the ATI Radeon HD 4770 this morning and it's based on the world's first 40nm GPU. It comes in at around £85 (inc. VAT) and AMD believes it will disrupt the mid-range market in quite emphatic fashion. Does it succeed? Read on to find out...
April 28, 2009 | 08:35The last few weeks have been full of blood, sweat and BIOS revisions in the bit-tech benchmarking sweatshop. We've been feverishly putting our new Core i7-based graphics card test systems together and now we're here to report how the graphics landscape is reforming itself.
December 17, 2008 | 13:42Nvidia has released the GeForce 9800 GTX today. Is this the next GPU to break the performance barriers down and make its way into masses upon masses of gamers' systems like the GeForce 8800 GTX did... Or is it one to forget about for the time being? Read on to find out...
April 1, 2008 | 18:10We look at BFG Tech's GeForce 9600 GT OC 512MB graphics card to see if it offers enough to entice users away from some of the great deals that can be found in the performance mainstream market. Does it manage to succeed in a very competitive segment? Let's find out...
March 12, 2008 | 07:38HIS is a company that is renowned for its innovative take on ATI's graphics cards - the company has often taken an average card and made it into a good card. Today we have a look at its Radeon HD 3850 IceQ 3 TurboX 512MB to see if it can turn a great card into a must-buy.
March 8, 2008 | 08:29PowerColor decided to throw the Radeon HD 3850's reference design out of the window when it came up with its HD 3850 Xtreme PCS 512MB graphics card. Is a decent factory overclock, a new cooler and an interesting display output choice enough to win us over? Let's find out...
February 18, 2008 | 04:49We have a look at BFG Tech's GeForce 8800 GTS OC 512MB card to find out if the post-Christmas price drops make the 8800 GTS 512MB a more attractive proposition than it was at launch. We also have a sneak peek at the company's latest watercooled edition card.
February 1, 2008 | 07:42Just a couple of short weeks ago, Nvidia launched the GeForce 8800 GT and many hailed it as one of the best mid-range graphics cards ever released. We have a look at BFG Tech's GeForce 8800 GT OC to find out if it is worth the premium over a stock-clocked 8800 GT.
November 12, 2007 | 17:05Today we have a look at Inno3D's GeForce 7950 GT. It comes complete with a factory fitted Zalman cooler and everything else you'd expect to get from a GeForce 7950 GT. However, is it enough to tempt away from waiting for the first DirectX 10 hardware?
October 23, 2006 | 17:31Today, NVIDIA is launching a new high-end video card as an update to the GeForce 7900 GT. We check out XFX's pre-overclocked and silent GeForce 7950 GT 570M Extreme, evaluating real-world performance against the reference GeForce 7950 GT and ATI's Radeon X1900XT 512MB to find out which one is worth your money.
September 14, 2006 | 19:14This machine utilises the latest chip from AMD, and comes configured with two 7800 GTX cards in SLI, each with 512MB of memory. 1GB of graphics RAM, 2GB of system RAM, 1TB of storage and two processor cores - do the numbers add up to the price tag? We find out.
January 11, 2006 | 12:16A report on The Inquirer suggests that NVIDIA has no problems shipping G70 GPUs at 550MHz+. It seems like they're having supply issues with the memory chips at the moment - the 144-pin Samsung 1.1ns GDDR3 hasn't been in production for long.
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