ATI RADEON HD2600 PRO

Advantages Fantastic OS, Looks Fab, Large & Clear Display, Built-In Bluetooh, Wireless, Camera & Microphone, Very Powerful
Disadvantages Could Be Cheaper, Could Have More In-Built Ports

...'s for sure! The graphics card is the component that surprised me the most. It's an ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO and can run really intensive games, at full resolution (which is a massive 1920 x 1200 on a 24" display), smoothly. I play Colin McRae Rally: Mac, Call of Duty 2, Doom 3, Quake, Unreal Tournament 2004, Need For Speed Carbon and The Sims 2 natively, and each one performs without a hitch. In BootCamp (another feature I won't touch on, but it basically allows you to run Windows natively on your Mac - and it's simple!), I run FIFA 08 which is a recent game, and again it runs fine on full settings at full resolution. Moving away from the actual components, the iMac has some other extras you perhaps wouldn't expect from every computer. It's hard to even notice, but the iMac has a tiny "iSight" camera built into the top of the display... Read review

Advantages alot of features and power
Disadvantages lack of analog output

...ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro is the perfect graphics adapter for the budget gamer. This card is in my system consisting of Gigabyte M52L-S3 with the AMD Athlon 64 3500+ and with 2 GB of DDR2 singelchannel RAM. In this setting, I have the standard 256 mb shared to 512 mb, with the top of 1 GB. This card is very fast. In my processor review, the fps shown for these games are done with this card. Only drawback is the lack of analog output. There are two HDMI outputs and a s-video, so you can hook up 2 HD TV sets. I tested it with two 32" HD screens and the card played a 2K film without any lag and distortion. Currently, I have a 19" widescreen LCD on it and it runs anything smooth and undistorted. My only problem is with 128 bit memory interface. As I use solid edge and other editing programs, this is not as smooth and fast... Read review

Advantages Cheap,Can be made to users Specs,Quiet
Disadvantages Motherboard not having enough connections PS2 IDE Small PSU

...quiet and you can hardly tell that the thing it turned on. I got this system made off the dell website and the specs for the comuputer are as follows: Intel® Viiv™ Core™ 2 Duo processor (2.66GHz, 1333MHz, 6MB cache 2gb DDR2 SDRAM 250GB Sata Hard Drive DVD ReWriter (SATA) 256MB ATI® Radeon™ HD 2600 XT Windows Vista Home Basic I didnt like Windows Vista on this Computer as i wanted it for games so i put Windows XP Pro onto it. The Graphics card is not excellent but it handles Battlefield 2 on medium Quality settings,I wouls say that the graphics card is the worst thing that dell have put into this pc. Dell Have only put a 300Watt power Supply in to this tower but it is very quiet so i am happy for now.I Will probably have to upgrade the PSU when i get a better graphics card. The motherboard is Intel g33 Chipset and it only... Read review