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By TechRadar, published 27-10-2011
Best graphics card under £150: 8 reviewedGraphics cards are so important - theyproducing the biggest performance variable in a desktop PC.We've capped the pricing at £150.If you only upgrade one component in your PC, make it your graphics card. It's going to have the most dramatic effect to your video playback, gaming frame rates and graphical quality.Before we delve into the group test, there are a few things to mention. If you're sitting on a powerful last-gen GPU, you're faced with quandary: buy another of my existing card for a cheap SLI/CrossFire setup, or start again with a new single GPU.In general, we'd recommend the newer single card, but it does depend on what you've got to work with in your existing rig. Nvidia's GTX 280s have retained their value sickeningly well, yet can't h...

By TechRadar, published 17-04-2011
The change in the multi-GPU game over the last eighteen months or so has been dramatic. It's been a long time coming but the technology is finally coming of age, but there's now a real reason to be dropping a second card into your home system other than just bragging rights: straight performance. When the technology first became available in our home gaming rigs though it was very different situation. With a combination of flaky driver support, dodgy hardware implementation and frankly shoddy performance, it was hard to recommend anyone part with the extra cash for the second card. The diminishing returns you got from dropping in that second GPU made it a very expensive and ineffectual luxury. With driver improvements, and far better graphical silicon coming from both the giants of the gra...

By TechRadar, published 17-04-2011
The change in the multi-GPU game over the last eighteen months or so has been dramatic. It's been a long time coming but the technology is finally coming of age, but there's now a real reason to be dropping a second card into your home system other than just bragging rights: straight performance. When the technology first became available in our home gaming rigs though it was very different situation. With a combination of flaky driver support, dodgy hardware implementation and frankly shoddy performance, it was hard to recommend anyone part with the extra cash for the second card. The diminishing returns you got from dropping in that second GPU made it a very expensive and ineffectual luxury. With driver improvements, and far better graphical silicon coming from both the giants of the gra...

By TechRadar, published 17-04-2011
The change in the multi-GPU game over the last eighteen months or so has been dramatic. It's been a long time coming but the technology is finally coming of age, but there's now a real reason to be dropping a second card into your home system other than just bragging rights: straight performance. When the technology first became available in our home gaming rigs though it was very different situation. With a combination of flaky driver support, dodgy hardware implementation and frankly shoddy performance, it was hard to recommend anyone part with the extra cash for the second card. The diminishing returns you got from dropping in that second GPU made it a very expensive and ineffectual luxury. With driver improvements, and far better graphical silicon coming from both the giants of the gra...
By TheTechLounge, published 11-08-2010
The 5770 is a drop-in replacement for the 4870. It has the same basic amount of GPU processing power, albeit on a smaller process with much better power management. So the improvements are all elsewhere--DirectX 11 being the most prominent. It's also really, really cheap.