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"When the current state of the graphics card market is compared to the situation of four or five years ago, one might think that it’s much simpler to buy a graphics card nowadays. Indeed, the numerous LE and SE models are long gone and there is no covert memory bus halving, when users ended up with performance far inferior to those in reviews. You may stumble upon a few models containing DDR2 memory, instead of the referent models’ GDDR3, but these are usually end-of-life products at the rock bottom of the current product gamma, so buyers actually do end up with the performance they paid for these days. Still, the unequal speed of new chip development in the two competitor companies, followed by strong economic impacts last year and a no-holds-barred battle for market dominance, caused the existence of a higher-than-needed number of similarly priced models present on the market at the moment, so customers may be in doubt as to which card will give them the best performance in a given price range. That’s why we decided to make a test of all models from the current generation available at the market."

"The card uses ATI's newest 40nm chip from TSMC, codenamed Cedar. The GPU is a mere 59mm2, enabling the Radeon 5450 to become the first DirectX 11 video card to sell for under $50. It will use DDR3 or DDR2, depending on the Add-In Board partner who sells the card. 512MB versions will sell for around $50, while 1GB versions will sell for around $60."

"Unable to withstand the massive invasion of AMD/ATI solution sin high-performance segments, Nvidia has turned its efforts to the budget market. Today we are going to talk about another addition to the 40 nm graphics processor family from this company."

"Are you in the market for an AGP graphics upgrade? If so, you know that there aren't a lot of choices out there. One of the newest additions to the AGP market however is Gigabyte's GV-R465D2-1GI, which is based on ATI's Radeon 4650 GPU. Join us as we take a look at this card's capabilities in today's review!"

"It's a great time to buy a GPU, especially if you're in the market for an AMD part. Prices are low and performance is high."

"For some time now ATI has been planning a refresh of their 4870 and today that product reaches us in the form of the Radeon 4890. The 4890 is now ATI’s fastest single GPU solution and many would think that Nvidia need a refresh of their top end card, the GTX 285, to compete with ATI. This is not the case though as Nvidia feel they have a great value competitor for the 4890 with their new GTX 275."

"Today ATI and NVIDIA are introducing new sub-$250 cards vying for your attention. In one corner lies ATI's Radeon 4890. Sporting a new RV790 GPU, the card has been enhanced to run at higher clocks and lower temps. In other other corner is NVIDIA's GTX 275. Thanks to blazing clocks, it performs similarly to NVIDIA's GTX 280. Which card comes out on top in the end? Find out inside!"

"Now, for a limited time, if you send us your BFG AGP card in good, working condition, we’ll send you the PCI Express equivalent at no cost to you. If you want to upgrade to an even better performing card, there is a nominal fee to do so. Offer good for U.S. customers only."

"Most of the best and some of the worst GPU’s ever to grace the 3D scene."

"NVIDIA has released a new driver that adds a few new PhysX and SLI features and should improve performance in some cases. There are also recent developments in PhysX and GPU computing that we will touch on."

"Whilst this may seem like an odd choice for a direct head to head, today's review will focus on the overall value of each card, taking into account cost per frame, bundle and various other factors. This could seem fairly boring to a no budget gaming enthusiast, but with the financial climate the way it is, people need to consider their purse/wallet more than ever in their buying decisions."

"The WD TV HD Media Player purports to "turn your USB drive into an HD media player, allowing you to watch your favorite HD movies on your TV." For those still befuddled, look at it like this: it enables you to plug in your USB key or USB hard drive and play back multimedia clips up to 1080p on your HDTV via the HDMI / composite outputs."

"With AMD's introduction of a $130 part that can handle high quality settings at decent resolutions, we also see an escalation in the price war NVIDIA is waging with it's GeForce 9 Series parts."

"So, which card is right for you? Do you have a unquenchable hunger for the highest performance? Would you rather find the best value card? Or, would you like to get find a middle ground between maximum performance and bang-for-buck?"

"Albatron Technology recently unveiled three new "PCI" graphics cards at Computex 2008. You read it right - "PCI" and not "PCI Express"! The PCI8600GT-256X, the PCI8500GT-256X and the PCI8400GS-256 are all VGAs that retrofit recent GeForce 8 Series graphics onto older PCI technology."