Our resident reviewing maestro, Tarindinho Sandholio, has taken a look at a couple of mid-range Powercolor boards recently. Here's the first fruit of those labours, a fine examination of their 9600XT Bravo 128MB. Here's a snippet.

It's difficult to manufacture an intrinsically bad Radeon 9600XT. PowerColor has done just fine with its attempt. It's small, it's quiet, it overclocks like a champ, and it doesn't cost the earth. Just don't expect super-smooth gameplay with every conceivable option turned to the maximum, especially with DX9 games. If you fully understand the architectural limitations that ATI had to make to the RV360 design for it to be a profitable GPU, you'll appreciate that its forte is at medium resolutions with a reasonable level of image enhancement through edge and texture aliasing.

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