An excellent take on ATI’s new technology, complete with custom cooling and great performance

Out of the box water cooled graphics, now that's fresh.

A final price will decide the fate of this chipset. It needs to be well under $200 to compete.

Performance, software and value that almost snatches away the A-List crown.

Like the MSI X800XT-VTD256E, Sapphire's offering represents bang on average performance. But, unlike MSI, this doesn't offer the feature set to offset the higher price.

One of the top performing cards in our round-up, the Sapphire was also an award contender this month. It was the fastest overall RADEON 9800 PRO card, and gave the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra cards a real run for their money, which is especially impressive as it's $100 cheaper than the Leadtek A350 5900 Ultra.

Yes, it’s fast, but is that enough anymore? Poor drivers and a high price tag are enough to put us off.

A mighty dual-GPU board that makes light work of even today’s toughest DirectX 10 games.

A mighty dual-GPU board that makes light work of even today’s toughest DirectX 10 games

A competent card with older games, but it can’t handle the new generation of games.

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.

AMD/ATI and its partners made quite a splash with the recent release of the 5 series GPUs, and is creating a lot of excitement about what future iterations of the cards will be able to do

Displayport promises HDMI-like image quality and ability to carry high-definition audio. Now Sapphire is taking advantage of this contender for the future of graphics card connectivity

Sapphire is plugging AMD's next graphics driver release – Catalyst 8.12 – claiming it will make all recent generations of Sapphire graphics cards better, enabling them to make use of the on-board stream processors to boot.

Bigger is better when it comes to screens, and now this 56in monster is claiming the crown for most impressive monitor on show.

Nick Ross gets gadget fever on day two - a laptop with a built in projector, Sapphire's latest, the Asus v Gigabyte fight, extreme cooling, 3D monitors, GPS, and the Eee-killing Acer One.

Lucky winners of a Sapphire 1300 XT graphics card.

With NVIDIA's new graphics chip still a couple of months away from reaching retail stores, ATI's RADEON 9700 is still the undoubted king when it comes to performance: if you want the fastest card available, then you can't go past the 9700.

Nvidia's first HDMI graphics card, complete with HDCP compatibility and decent performance.

Nist researchers claim major breakthrough.