An exciting glimpse at future performance, but by the time games appear to make them worth buying, the price will have plummeted.

Fantastic design and highly-configurable power make this XPS useful, desirable and good value.

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Lacking in some areas, but punches above its weight where it counts.

A very fast, well-built high-end PC. But a few niggles and high price keep it off the A-List.

Impressive performance for an affordable card, but the 9600 GT treads on its toes.

It’s incredibly powerful, but recent releases offer similar performance for significantly less money.

It was all looking good until Nvidia’s new cards overtook it on the final straight.

Great performance at an appealing price, although the 9600 GT encroaches on its turf

It had little competition at this price, and it knocks Nvidia 8600 cards out of the race, but Nvidia’s 9600 GT trumps it.

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

Quad core at this price is fantastic, but it’s not as fast as it should be.

A monster PC thanks to some very high-end components. But it’s noisy and expensive.

A fast, quiet, good-looking PC that's great value.

Very fast for some applications, but poor gaming performance and strong competition reduces its appeal.

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Nvidia’s 8800 GTX graphics card is the crowning glory of this very-fast, great-value, PC.

A poor performer in the face of HP’s similarly-priced, touch screen-enabled rival.

Quad-core makes it powerful and good value at the price. Noise and stability suffer though.

Potentially Much faster than a X1900 XTX in games with large textures yet it costs the same. At over $100 less than Nvidia’s 7950 GX2, it’s a fine card.