Graphics card manufacturers’ obsession with multi-GPU boards continues this month. The Asus HD 3850 X2 brings to market the novel formula of two ATi Radeon 3850 GPUs on one card.

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

A popular and fast top-end option, but it’s losing its grip to new competition from both sides.

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

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

Affordable and fast, the 8800 GS was our top budget choice until the 9600 GT arrived to spoil the party.

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

A great media-centre card with some nice features – and at an affordable price

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

A useful card for more relaxed gaming, and a quiet cooler to boot.

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

The 512MB makes little difference but the heatsink is quieter than XFX’s.

Expensive for a 7900 GS, but the increased clock speed sees it rival a 7900 GT.

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

A potentially stunning card -- but don't buy one just yet.

We love hardware. As users ourselves we feel your pangs of wanting the newest, fastest rig and components. Unfortunately it's hard to justify the cost of bleeding-edge hardware at the best of times - more so with the cost of single graphics cards at times exceeding the $1000 price barrier. This is as much as some users would spend on a total system upgrade.

The big feature that sets the 6200TC apart from the 6600's and 6800's is the addition of TurboCache. Currently, graphics cards are typically limited to the memory on the graphics card, but TurboCache opens the door to your PC's system memory.