Spode's Abode has posted a roundup of modern AGP as well as PCI Express x16 graphics cards. Thirteen graphics cards from different manufacturers, starting from mainstream solutions and climbing right up to ultra high-end products, have been compared in terms of price-to-performance criteria.

?If you like your computer games, the graphics card is quite possibly the most important component in your system and naturally one of the hardest decisions to make when upgrading or building a new machine. Inferior processor, motherboard and memory sub-systems may throw a 30% performance swing into the equation. This means that saving money by buying cheaper equipment, and investing the money into a better graphics card can often give much better overall performance for your money.?says the review.

?By covering the complete range of cards from the oldest and cheapest mid range models that can still keep pace with the latest games, up to the very latest high end cards, we hope to give a useful perspective on the issues of relative performance and value for money.?adds Peter Bernard, the author of the article at Spode's Abode.

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