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Nvidia GeForce 8500GT SLI review

An upgrade for budget systems?

Our Score 3

Last reviewed: 2008-03-15March 15th 2008

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Product Summary

GeForce 8500GT

Price at launch

£116.00

For

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G8x architecture still strong

Against

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No way around its poor performance

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