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Top 10 Graphics Boards

Our new charts debut.

By Richard Baguley, PCW Print   

How We Test

We test graphics boards under Windows Millennium Edition in a Dell Dimension 4100 Series with a 933-MHz Pentium III CPU and 128MB of PC-133 SDRAM. Our performance scores are based on tests that we evaluate on frame rate (70 percent) and image quality (30 percent). We use GT Interactive's Unreal Tournament, Id Software's Quake III Arena, Interplay's MDK2 Demo, Infogrames' Test Drive 6, and the Caligari TrueSpace 4.2 Benchmark for both performance and image-quality testing. To test each board, we use drivers supplied by the vendor.

Overall rating is based on performance (65 percent for power boards, 42.5 percent for value boards), features (15 percent for power, 27.5 percent for value), price (10 percent for power, 20 percent for value), and support policies (10 percent). All of these boards support 4X AGP. Data based on tests designed and conducted by the PC World Test Center. All rights reserved.

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