It has been a long time coming, but finally there is some serious competition to the mantle assumed by the behemoth that is NVIDIA. The Radeon 8500 is the latest graphics chipset from ATI, which itself is a graphics giant, though does not possess nearly the same public profile in the consumer 3D market. Unlike previous ATI cards that featured exclusively on ATIs own branding and PCB, the Radeon 8500 and 7500 are open to other board manufacturers, presumably to take a bigger bite out of NVIDIAs lucrative market share.

The HP Officejet Pro 8500 is one of the best office inkjet alternatives for under $350. Being feature packed, small businesses may be tempted to try this over the latest expensive laser printer.

Video and almost decent gaming at fantastic prices

Great performance, fantastic value and near silent operation makes this our new A-List mid-range PC winner.

Impressive performance at a nice price

This card is the same card as the Bravura Evil Master II, but without the retail extras thrown in. The card itself is a fairly plain-looking affair - a simple green PCB (printed circuit board) with a small cooling fan and heatsink over the GPU, and an array of RAM modules absent of the large RAM heatsinks now commonplace on the NVIDIA models.

ATIs RADEON 9000 is somewhat deceptively named itd be easy to think of it as the next logical step up from the RADEON 8500 series...

The Radeon 7500 is the little brother to the Radeon 8500 and is essentially an enhanced version of the original Radeon card, an example of which was tested in this round-up as a yardstick and included in the performance graphs (pages 50-51). It features the Charisma Engine; ATIs equivalent of the T&L engine found in GeForce-based cards.

Dell is never one to be outdone when it comes to cutting edge tech

There was a time when Pinnacle dominated the PC video-editing market. But, after its initial success with the DV500, the advent of sophisticated realtime editing seemed to leave the company behind. While it was a good product, the company’s Pro-ONE arrived when competitive products from Matrox and Canopus had been available for some time. The Pinnacle Edition PRO 5 is an entirely different matter.

Superb print quality at consistently high speeds, and it’s packed with useful features too.

The graphics market is a cutthroat game, and we have seen many casualties recently. Not all of them have been fatal, like Matrox, which has recently backed out of the consumer race, or Rendition, whic

Custom design watercooling and some judicious overclocking make for a showstopping performance and price.

Technically competent but repetitive and dull, Diablo turns in its grave.

Turn based strategy gaming for the thinker, with long term playability.

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

The biggest survey of its kind finds that one of Australia’s biggest tech companies is also its worst.

A decent board, but the Hybrid SLI feature doesn’t justify the high asking price

It may be affordable, but we’d rather spend a little more to guarantee some genuine gaming ability

The WinFast Titanium 200 T shares is similar to its big brother, the Ti 500 TD, in terms of good performance at an affordable price. This time around however, its the performance-on-a-budget GeForce3 Ti 200 chipset offered at the very affordable price of $555, making it a strong contender for PC Authoritys Value Award.