Computers: Comparisons

Best Gaming Graphics Cards For The Money, May 2011 (under $100)

Choosing the right budget graphics card is not very easy, there are dozens of different models and variety of manufacturers. Not all video cards are worth their price, often other graphics card with same price is many times slower. Prices between manufacturers can vary a lot too, same card by other company can cost even $70 more. In this post I list best gaming graphics cards for the price from $40 to $100. Remember that availability and prices change very fast, this means that some info can be out of date. Best graphics card for $40: In this price range there are two graphics cards (DDR2 versions of ATI HD 4650 and Nvidia 9500GT) that should...

Comparison of 24 best gaming computers ($701 to $900), April 2011

In April's $701 to $900 gaming computer comparison chart we have 24 different desktops that are marketed as gaming computers. Most of them can easily handle modern games at decent settings, as expected for this price range. But some (brand computers) have $40 graphics cards that are almost useless for today's and future games. Not so surprisingly the fastest graphics card of all desktops is the AMD HD 6870, it is ~15% faster than HD 6850. Next best is the ~30% slower ATI HD 5770 which is 10-15% faster than Nvidia GTS 450 and ATI HD 5750. After them is ATI HD 5670 that has less than 1/2 performance of HD 6850. Anything lower should be avoided...

iBUYPOWER Gamer Extreme AMD AM573D3 Review

Everyone likes to play newest computer games maxed out with high frames per second. But running latest titles at high settings requires something better than a $399 computer with a integrated graphics card. Thankfully, you don't have to buy a $1500-$2000 gaming computer to play high graphic games, $800-$900 gaming desktops with AMD HD 6850 or Nvidia GTX 460 will do the job fine. Obviously you can't get a brand computer (HP, Dell, Alienware) with HD 6850 or any other fast DirectX 11 card for under $900. This is why I review this iBUYPOWER Gamer Extreme AMD AM573D3, which has very decent specifications for a sub-$900 gaming desktop. Graphics card:...

iBUYPOWER Gamer Power AMD AM567D3 Review

This review is about another low-budget gaming desktop, the iBUYPOWER Gamer Power AMD AM567D3. The specs of this computer are pretty good for this price, they are similar to some ~$700 gaming PCs. This doesn't mean it's powerful enough for playing latest games at highest settings. The ATI HD 5570 is an lower end graphics card which has performance similar to HD 4670, this means it can nicely play few year old games with med-high settings at low resolutions. Lets have a closer look at the specifications. For just $569.99 you get an awesome 2.8GHz AMD Phenom II quad-core processor, 1GB ATI Radeon HD5570 video card, large 1TB HDD and 4GB RAM....

Comparison of 26 best gaming computers ($501 to $700), March 2011

This is the first comparison of best gaming computers. There are total of 26 cheap gaming desktops in this comparison chart, priced from $501 to $700. You can see that there is wide range of computers for every taste. Some have a powerful processor and weak graphics card, although some have very balanced specs. There are seven columns in this chart: model name, price, graphics card, processor, RAM, HDD and operating system. They are also colored, warmer color means weaker components. Green is excellent, yellow is OK and red is very bad. Most computers come with 4GB of RAM which is plenty for normal use. Some computers doesn't have an operating system or just have a 32-bit Windows that doesn't support over 4GB of RAM. iBUYPOWER Gamer Power AMD AM550D3 - nice all-around computer, although...

Titanium Gamer AM6020 Gaming Computer Review

Titanium Gamer AM6020 is a very interesting gaming computer for $669.99. It is probably the only sub-$700 gaming computer that has both good graphics card and an operating system. Titanium Gamer AM6020 uses the Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 which is significantly faster than ATI's HD 5670 and HD 5570 that are very common in $600-$750 gaming computers. This Titanium Gamer also has a decent AMD quad-core processor - 3.0GHz AMD Athlon II X4 640, rather average 4GB DDR3 RAM and 500GB hard disk. The Titanium Gamer AM6020 Gaming Computer is equipped with Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, just like most new computers. It is hard to find better pre-built...

Systemax Gaming PC SG-1010 MMO review

Systemax Gaming PC SG-1010 MMO is a powerful gaming computer that has fairly good specs for the price. Most importantly it has a fast graphics card and a quad-core AMD Athlon II. However this PC doesn't have the fastest quad-core, it's only clocked at 2.6 GHz, a little low for games that doesn't use all 4 cores. But its DirectX 11 graphics card - ATI HD 5770 can play every game with ease, HD 5770 also has relatively low power consumption. Let's take a look at other main specifications of this gaming computer. This Systemax has 500GB hard drive, 4GB...

CybertronPC X-Sniper SAAN4120BRBSL review

CybertronPC X-Sniper would be a perfect budget gaming desktop if it didn't have one weak link, the graphics card. The graphics card is a low-end ATI HD 4350, which is couple generations old. HD 4350 doesn't even pass minimum requirements for most latest games. Other specs are relatively good: reasonably fast dual-core CPU, enough RAM and plenty of hard disk space for this price range. Keep in mind this "gaming computer" doesn't have an operating system.

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