HP Pavilion Elite HPE-500f PC (Black) review

Here is a little overview of modest HP home computer. This HP Pavilion is not exactly a gaming desktop, but it seems to be very popular for some reason. It doesn't have a fancy computer case with led lights or an expensive high-end graphics card like most gaming desktops. HP Pavilion Elite HPE-500f PC (Black) is a solid computer with six-core processor and lots of RAM, that can also handle some less demanding games like The Sims 3, Left 4 Dead 2 and World of Warcraft.   Graphics card: This HP has AMD Radeon HD 6450 graphics card with 512MB DDR3 of video memory. HD 6450 is pretty weak, even DDR5 version of this card is more than 2 times...

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 Remember that availability and prices change very fast, this means that some info can be out of date.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:...