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Top 10 Graphics Boards for Gamers

New high-powered cards from NVidia, ATI make this month's chart.

Alexandra Krasne

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How We Test

We test graphics boards under Windows Millennium Edition. Our performance scores are based on tests that are evaluated on frame rate (50 percent) and image quality (50 percent). We use GT Interactive's Unreal Tournament, Id Software's Quake III Arena, Interplay's MDK2 Demo, Infogrames's Test Drive 6, and the Caligari TrueSpace 4.2 Benchmark for both performance and image-quality testing.

We test graphics boards in a Dell Dimension 4100 Series with a PIII-933 CPU and 128MB of PC133 SDRAM. To test each board we use drivers supplied by the vendor.

Overall rating is based on performance (65 percent), features (15 percent), price (10 percent), and support policies (10 percent). For all frame rates higher is better. Data based on tests designed and conducted by the PC World Test Center. All rights reserved.

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