Mid-range graphics cards

There are some good, powerful graphics cards available these days without having to break the bank. I recently purchased an ASUS AMD Radeon HD6670 1GB GDDR5 card from Novatech for just under £50.



It is a really powerful card which is able to play most modern games with the high quality graphics setting at the common resolutions. Even if this gives a jerky picture reducing the graphics quality to medium does not detract too much on most games. Also if you want to spend a bit more the AMD Radeon HD7770 and nVidia Geforce GTX 650ti offer a lot more performance for just about £100. They do need an additional power connection however.

With DELL Inspiron and Vostro mini-towers starting at less than £300 with Intel i3 CPUs, 4GB of RAM and 500Gb hard disk drives, adding one of these cards gives a suitable entry level gaming system for not much money. Unfortunately you also get Windows 8 included but you can't have everything. Luckily a year's warranty is also included.