PNY Verto GeForce 7600 GS AGP

Advantages: Quality performance without breaking the bank
Disadvantages: Will not satisfy hardcore gamers, poorish installation guide

...costing £189.99 from PC World, although I am sure you could probably knock a few pounds off shopping online for it at any of the numerous retailers. The card itself is a mighty looking thing, and comes in typical GeForce packaging, displaying the name of the product, a fantasy character, and the PNY logo. Once I got my purchase home, I opened it up and found a rather basic instruction and installation guide, which just about did the job, although I was lucky as I knew what I was doing without it. The first thing to do is delete the old graphics drivers, and with the CD-ROM provided, install the new drivers. Once these are installed, then you need to open up your PC and place the card in. The card itself is an AGP 8x, so before purchase, ensure that your PC has a free AGP slot, and I would advise that you have nothing in the next PCi slot... Read review

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Advantages: Good Price, Passive cooling
Disadvantages: Struggles on some of the latest games

...PNY GeForce 6200 256MB AGP I have been running this card in my PC for the past year without a problem, I brought it initially because it was a reasonable price and was 2 generations ahead of the card I had been running a GE Force4 4200 ti 128mb, and also had twice the amount of RAM 256mb. A lot of potential buyers would dismiss this card out of hand as it would be considered a budget card and of little use to those who enjoy gaming. I would contradict them as I do enjoy gaming but can't afford a £150 - £300 graphics card in order to play the latest games with all the knobs and whistles turned on; I have however used this card to play most of the latest games, maybe not at the top in game settings but at reduced resolutions and frame rates. The rest of my rig would also not be the fasted on the market I have a 2000XP Athlon... Read review

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Advantages: No Hardware Conflicts, Runs newish games perfectly
Disadvantages: None at the moment

...and effective with a GUI leading the user through the whole process and online driver updates are easy to find on the GeForce site with prompts and questions to define exactly what one you need. The card comes with a few adapters (DVI-VGA and a S-Video Cable) which are useful I would reccomend this card but ast the same time, there are better ones out there and faster ones for a little more money so take it into consideration.... Read review

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