If you're serious about gaming you should get serious about the system you use to play your games. Modern software uses complex 3D graphics that place heavy demands on a PC's graphics card, but one as powerful as the Hercules 3D Prophet Titanium 200 can take the strain and then some. Slotting into a motherboard's AGP slot, this uses a state-of-the-art nVidia GeForce 3 Titanium 200 chip to give games blistering performance.

The chip runs at 175Mhz, working with 64Mb of onboard DDR memory, and using in-built Transform & Lighting functions to process 3D scenes incredibly fast. And thanks to the new nFinite-FX engine it also has vertex and pixel shaders, the very latest graphical functions being used by games developers. With this graphics card on-board, games can feature lifelike shadows, bump mapping, volumetric fog and light effects, and full-scene anti-aliasing. What's more it includes built-in high-resolution TV support, for DVD playback on NTSC and PAL TVs right up to the new HD standard.

And just to show what the card can do, it comes complete with a range of technology demos, a special Hercules-exclusive level of Quake 3, Power DVD 3 playback software, and the 3Deep colour setup utility.