For mid-range gaming, the P860 is a fast choice. It won't produce super-smooth frame rates in the latest games, but it will produce playable frame rates in most games, and those frame rates will still be better than what most competing 8600 GT-based cards can achieve.

You can forget the old GTS models because this new card, based on the G92 GPU, is a far better choice, even if it has some limitations.

The MSI GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB is one of the better mid-high performance cards available for its price and fills the gap between the current generation of high-end cards and the eagerly awaited series that's soon to come from NVIDIA. The increased clock speed may not make a huge difference, but it may just be enough for some.

An excellent single-card SLI option with a tonne of rendering power up its sleeve. The potential for quad-SLI is mouth watering, and the single-card SLI design means space savings for cramped PC cases.

If you have a graphics enthusiast’s heart, but lack the wallet size to match, then ATI's Radeon HD 4850 is the kind of bargain you’ve been waiting for. It offers a solid performance in all but the most power-hungry applications, at a price that even a pauper could afford.