You pay for what you get online, or do you? Ron Osborn tells a tale of confusing branding and high expectations.

The first place to start tweaking is your BIOS. Enter your BIOS by hitting a key combination on system boot (look out for F1, Del etc). A word of warning though, the BIOS is a very powerful tool, but can cause damage if pushed the wrong way.

Unfortunately, this might be the last consumer graphics card we see from the quality German card manufacturer Elsa, which is planning to focus on the professional graphics market. Although not quite as fast as the Morpheus GeForce3 - the other stock GeForce3 in the round-up - the Elsa Galdiac 920 is nonetheless a top GeForce3 card from a well-respected card maker.

Even though the Voodoo3 3500 TV is an older card than most on test in this Labs, we have included it since it, along with the ATI All-In-Wonder 128 Pro,fills a niche in the graphics card market that caters to people looking for a low-cost TV and video capture card alongside reasonable 3D gaming performance.

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

Bigger and faster than ever.

Breathe some life into your old PC in time for a Vista upgrade with these budget AGP video cards.

3Coms AirConnect is one of the high-speed wireless LAN (WLAN) contenders, combining three PC Card network interface cards and a base station. The AirConnect cards dont inspire confidence, as the aerial assembly isnt securely fixed to the card body. 3Com looks to have remedied this with the release of the new XJACK cards (estimated at $400 each). These cards have a pop-up antenna and are less prone to breaking off the card.

The concept of sticking all that ever-so-sensitive analog circuitry into a box that resides outside the electrically noisy confines of a computer seems conceptually sensible.

The digital still camera is a treat to use.

An immensely powerful card, tempered by flaky drivers.

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.

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

Shoppers are being advised to be careful when disclosing their credit card details as fraudsters aim to take advantage of the Christmas season, the Australian Crime Commission has warned.

Can’t handle gaming, and beaten by cheaper media cards too.

Something’s wrong with DirectX 10 gaming when even top end cards are struggling with the latest games.

The Hercules branding has been associated with prestige quality and high performance since the release of the HGC display adaptor in 1982. More recently, the same applied to the Hercules Dynamite TNT2 Ultra - undeniably the quickest 3D card of its time, though notoriously difficult to get hold of.

There are a lot of GeForce3 cards on the market at the moment, with not an incredible amount of difference between them. This is indicative of the somewhat heavy-handed tactics of NVIDIA when setting down reference designs.

4GB SD and 8GB Memory Stick Pro Duo cards coming soon.

The WNC-0300 is an 802.11g/b PCI card, and is the counterpart of the WPC-0300 PC card.