Reviewed on June 4, 2008The Maingear Prelude has the best bang for the buck among midrange gaming PCs. It also has a certain stocky visual appeal. It's missing a few features, and you'll have to jump through a few hoops to make upgrades, but on balance, this system is a great deal.TAGS:Maingear, power supply, Voodoo, AMD, Dell XPS, CPU, chipset, NVidia, 32-bit, Intel, games, PC
Reviewed on February 12, 2007No other 3D graphics card comes close to this bang for the buck, making the 320MB XFX GeForce 8800 GTS mostly an easy decision if you need a midrange upgrade. Nvidia still has to polish off its Vista software, and the sooner-or-later arrival of competing cards muddies the waters a bit, but if you need a midprice graphics card today, this should be your pick.TAGS:XFX Inc, Nvidia GeForce, Radeon, NVidia, card, clock speed, ATI Technologies, DirectX, 3D, video card, AMD, Microsoft Windows Vista, games, Microsoft Windows
Reviewed on July 18, 2006The budget desktop scene is due for a shake-up with Intel's new chips and AMD's impending price cuts, but the Velocity Micro Vector GX Campus Edition is a strong opening volley. There's not much we'd change about this back-to-school package; it's as capable as it is attractive.TAGS:Velocity Micro, Intel Core 2 Duo, back-to-school, PCI, NVidia, PCI Express, Nvidia GeForce, AMD, LCD, speakers, Intel, PC, games
Reviewed on April 25, 2007The Cyberpower Gamer Ultra 8500 SE looks like a great deal, but we question the overall Cyberpower buying experience. Four years of negative reader comments about this company led us to investigate. Cyberpower promises to improve, but you should still proceed with caution.TAGS:Cyberpower, gamer, AMD Athlon, AMD Athlon 64 X2, AMD Athlon 64, AMD, NVidia, Nvidia GeForce, CPU, video card, memory, PC, games
Reviewed on June 20, 2006Falcon Northwest's FragBox might be the best known small-form-factor gaming PC, but Maingear's X-Cube is currently the most up-to-date. With the latest of everything, if you want a gaming desktop for on-the-road fragging, look no further.TAGS:Maingear, Nvidia GeForce, NVidia, chipset, Intel Core 2 Duo, card, CPU, video card, AMD, games, PC
January 5, 2006During CES keynote, Michael Dell says it's his company's obligation "to take computing to the next level." Photos: Dell overclocks for CESTAGS:Consumer Electronics Show, GPU, NVidia, AMD, PC, Intel, games