Advantages: Great speed, the best for high resolution gaming, lifetime warrent + great customer support from BFG
Disadvantages: Hot & can be loud, a large card (27cm)

...The 8800GTX card from Nvidia has long been established as one of the best single-GPU cards in existence - in fact, the only single-GPU card that beats it is the 9800GTX, which has its own drawbacks, as I will explain below. So how does the BFG 8800GTX OC2 differ from the rest of the menagerie that is the 8800GTX family? Well, first of all, it has significantly higher clock speeds, giving you great performance gains over both standard clocked brands, and many of the other stock overclocked brands. It is nearly at the top of the food chain as far as 8800GTX speeds go. As for how it competes in real-world gaming, I can play any game at full graphics settings with this beast of a graphics card, and every one of those with full anisotropic filtering, and at least some level of antialising (the latter on all games save for Crysis... Read review

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Advantages: Exceptionally low profile, good speeds for size, price. passive (totally silent) lots of extras
Disadvantages: Not a graphical beast. But for £20? you can pick up very cheap now ;)

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Advantages: Copes with most modern games, silent running
Disadvantages: Superior cooling comes at a price

...Summer 2008 saw a shed-load of new mid and high-end discrete graphics cards from both Nvidia and ATI (manufacturers) released. The 9600GT isn't a new card by any means, being from Nvidia's 9x00 series cards that have already been superceded by the more powerful GTX200 series. Infact since I bought the card, prices have tumbled following a price war between the two manufacturers that have actually seen faster cards like the Nvidia 9800GTX and ATI 4850 fall to prices below that of the MSI 9600GT Hybrid Freezer. So why on earth buy it then? It currently retails for £140 which is more than both of the above cards retail for despite them being faster. However the MSI 9600GT Hybrid Freezer has a small trick up it's sleeve that will certainly appeal to quite a few people out there. This is to do with the cooling. MSI have included one... Read review

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Advantages: Fabulous storyline, particularly in decision making
Disadvantages: Minor translation issues at one or two points

...", and the game excels at making the player look twice and think upon his decisions, though never claiming one is morally above the other. Oh, you can also try to sleep with women to collect cards, if you want. Bugs were few, but present; there were some obvious translation issues, leading to difficulty understanding exactly what one is doing at points, but these aside, I haven't noticed many at all. All in all, a fantastic offering that a heartily recommended EDIT: Minimum Requirements: * WinXP SP2 / Vista * Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz or AMD Athlon 64 +2800 (although I had it running on an AMD Athlon XP 2200 * 1 GB RAM (WinXP) / 1536 MB (Vista) * 128 MB Video RAM w/ DX9 Vertex Shader/ Pixel Shader 2.0 support (NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or ATI Radeon 9800 or better) * 8.5 GB hard drive space Recommended requirements * WinXP SP2... Read review

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Advantages: Awesome graphics
Disadvantages: None

...Working in distribution, this is one the card's that just fly off the shelf the moment it is in stock. RADEON 9800 series is one of the most visually advanced 3D performers on the planet, delivering an immersive, cinematic experience for the most demanding next-generation games with up to 256MB of DDR memory and a 256-bit memory interface. The 9800 in its 3rd generation, merges advanced stability with revolutionary features. Features: The 9800 series powers through the most demanding next-generation 3D titles, scenes and environments. Featuring highly programmable cinematic shader engines and support for DirectX 9.0 and OpenGL feature sets. Experience impeccable 3D visual realism with the advanced engineering of ATI technology. The 9800 series beats with the heart of a champion, backed by the latest CATALYST™ software suite... Read review

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