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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 05-04-2011
We've been getting hot under the GPU-collar for the top end of the graphics market in the last few months, with the release of both AMD's Radeon HD 6990 and Nvidia's GeForce GTX 590 dual-GPU monoliths. But we still love a cheeky, cheap GPU like the AMD Radeon HD 6670.It's all very well talking about £600 graphics cards that need PC cases the size of Andre the Giant to house them, and a mini Arc reactor to keep them powered, but how many of us are actually going to drop a month's wages on such a pixel-pushing behemoth?More likely you're going to be looking at a maximum outlay of around £150-£200. And currently there's a lot of graphics processing power available all the way down the price spectrum too.AMD though has come in, GPUs-blazing, at a sub-£100 price point with its latest Direct...