*Review: Neoseeker (
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Ha...00xt_review/)*
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Where does the upper mid-range class of graphics card (
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Ha...600xt_review/#) currently lie?
For the most part, most of the current generation of upper mid-range cards (HD (
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Ha...600xt_review/#) 2600 XTs, 8600 GTS's) that we have tested have been underwhelming -- many good cards, but none that really shined. Even the speediest of the upper mid-range video cards we've tested, such as the BFG 8600 GTS OC2 (
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Ha...eview/11.html), have been hard to recommend over other GPU's that offer either a lot more power for a little more cash, or a little less power for a lot less cash. The gap between the upper-mid-range, and the lower-high-end, has been so wide that you could argue that there isn't a upper-mid-range -- there's just the mid-range.
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