Offering bags of gaming power for an attractive price, the GeForce 8600 series is an enticing prospect.

Superseded by both Nvidia’s new 9600 card and ATi’s excellent HD 3800 series

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

Hugely powerful for such a reasonable price, it’s far more appealing than a GTX or an Ultra

Fast but disappointing card that delivers only small benefits over its predecessors for a significant price premium.

The 3D Prophet II GTS 64Mb follows on a tradition in glorious form

There is quite simply no holding nVidia back. Hot on the heels of the top-performance GeForce2 GTS chipset, with its capacity for up to 64Mb of fast DDR...

The graphics card is one of the most important performance-generating components in the system, but it can also be one of the most problematic. As is the case with most new hardware, theres a period w

A wonderful return to form, leaving the disappointment of the 8600 GT as just a distant memory.

The 9600 GT redefines the mainstream graphics market, offering high-end power at a mid-range price. At this price we want one.

Brief reviews of products including a 4GB SDHC card, a cheap DirectX 10 card and a wireless gaming mouse.

There will be several iterations of the Voodoo4/5, each with a different number of VSA-100 chips, ranging from one to four running in SLI (Scan Line Interleave). The Voodoo5 5500 features two VSA-100 chips and has a total of 64Mb of 166MHz SDRAM, although both chips require their own texture memory, so some of the RAM is shared.

There was once a time when 3dfx ruled the 3D accelerator market, but...

From budget laptops to ultra-tiny netbooks, ultraportables and high performance, we explain the tricks to finding out the ultimate laptop at the right price.

An affordable way to get excellent frame rates.

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

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

Back in September Hercules impressed us all by blowing away the competition in our 3D graphics card Labs..

Despite the somewhat dubious branding the GeForce2 Ti cards are not actually Ti 500 cards, hence the inclusion of the forward slash in the name - Gainward is an old stalwart in the graphics game even though it doesnt enjoy a big profile here.

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