To get my moneys worth on a videocard, do you recomend a radeon x1600 pro 512mb, or a Radeon x1800 xt 512mb?
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I would go with the x1600 myself. I don't think the x1800 is enough of an improvement to warrent being more than 2x the price.
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I depends on what you use it for AMD Athlon is better for gaming and Intel Pentium 4 is better if you want to convert DVD to avi or something like that.
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the BEST is 2 PCI express 16 cards but your motherboard needs to support. new models come out every day so it changes ATI & nvidia are the 2 leaders
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Nvidia GeForce 7800, PCI-X, preferably with 512Mb of RAM. Very expensive, though.
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Any card is fine, I suggest either an ATI card, or a Gforce card. You can find cards anywhere now from like $70-$300 that are good. \n\nFirst just check to find out if your computer has AGP, PCI, or PCI-E (PCI Express) ports. To do this look inside your computer. If you see little brown ports that means you have AGP, if you have PCI then you have just plain metal ports, and if you have PCI-E then you have gold ports. PCI-E is the best, followed by AGP, and finally, the oldest type, PCI. \n\nI suggest atleast getting a 256mb card, as that will work for most. If you are into extreme gaming then you might want to head up to the 512mbs. Also, be sure to check if your computer has dual capabilites. Which means you can have two graphic cards at once. \n\nFor more information be sure to check www.wikipedia.com ... Simply search PCI-E ports, AGP ports, or PCI ports, this will help to give you a picture of what your looking for, while looking in your computer. \n\nGood luck! if you need any more help feel free to email me.
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Depends on what you are looking for...\n\nATI\n------------------------------\nPros\nATI is one of the original big names in video cards, long before Nvidia. They have very high quality video cards right out of the box without a need to overclock them. They focus heavily on amazingly beautiful and smooth graphics. Even their lower end cards perform well.\n\nCons\nThey don't provide software driver updates nearly as often. They are less configurable if you WANT to overclock. \n\n\nNvidia\n--------------------\nPros\nNvidia broke ground quickly on the video card market by providing fast cards at low prices. In the past, their primary focus has been on great specs (benchmarks, frame rates, etc) to help sell their cards. Now they are focusing more on image quality and smooth game play. They are very good about providing the latest software driver updates for their equipment. Their cards are extremely configurable for overclocking.\n\nCons\nTheir gpu's became known as being fast, but choppy during gameplay. Their lower end cards aren't that great performance-wise. \n\n-------------------------\n\nToday, the competition between these two has become much closer. It's hard to say who the winner is at any given time, because as one comes out with a winning model, a few weeks later, the other trumps it. \n\n\nHere is a conclusion from a recent report:\n(by Ilya Gavrichenkov of X-bit Labs)\n\n"I would like to draw your particular attention to mainstream professional solutions that proved very interesting. We were especially happy with the Nvidia Quadro FX 3500. Thanks to its fast memory and G71 GPU this solutions demonstrated superior performance and sometimes proved even faster than its high-end brother.\n\nIts rival, ATI FireGL V7200, also performed quite well in our test session. It demonstrated the same performance as its more expensive fellow – FireGL V7350. So, if you do not need 1GB of graphics memory, and are happy with ATI’s professional graphics solutions, then FireGL V7200 will be a great choice for you.\n\nSumming up, I wouldn’t give any specific recommendations about purchasing this or that professional product. These solutions are quite expensive and you should address this matter responsibly. Especially, since professional users are very rarely working in several different applications at the same time. Therefore, your choice of a workstation graphics card will be strictly determined by the type of applications you will be running on your platform. Of course, Nvidia Quadro FX solutions are faster in most cases than ATI FireGL, however there are tasks where FireGL will be irreplaceable. For example, in Maya. So, we encourage those of you who have read this article to the end to make your own conclusions basing on the results and analysis we have shared with you today."\n\n----------------------\nPersonally,  I have respect for both, though I currently prefer an ATI card.
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for AGP and pci-express slots (2 versions): Ati x1600 pro goes slightly over the $100, but is a significant boost from the $100 x1300 pro.\n\nfor pci-express slots: nvidia 7600gs
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the best are www.newegg.com and www.tigerdirect.com. Tiger Direct usually has some big rebates which = amazing prices, while newegg has good prices without rebates. I'm pretty sure tiger was selling a 99 dollar geforce 6800! I think the rebate ends the end of may. You can overclock that baby with rivatuner (www.3dguru.com) to be like a 220 dollar 6800 GT or Ultra by unlocking the 4 hidden pipelines. any questions feel free to email me.
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get somthing from asus ... lok for the features you want ...plenty of pci expansion slots ...if you dont want to buy a new video card then you need an agp board but if u want to play the latest games you should move up to pci express and get a new video card like an nvidia 7950 ... a sli capable board is a bonus if you ever want to increase video performance even more by adding a second card ... raid is a good feature to have ...sata is better if you want to move up to faster harddrives  ...and get a board that supports ddr2 unless ur wanting to keep ur old memory ... it really depends on if ur wanting to run ur old components off of it or wanting to put together a new system ...
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Go with the GeForce 7800.  I never buy the latest greatest product as it's usually too expensive.
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Plenty.  I was going to say any of the Radeon X series or NVIDIA 6000/7000 series.
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go with amd they work great (turion 64)
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The ATI Rage Pro was a good video card... back in the day. The reason a seller might put this in the specs is because it is an older computer, and there is not more to say about the computer. \nNothing worse than onboard video.
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ATI RADEON !!! It rocks in my book ......
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The 6800xt is by far the strongest card of the lot. No comparsion. However, you might be looking for a older 6800 as they no longer make them in AGP. The 9600xt only comes in AGP. \n\nRadeon X1600 Pro\n500 MHz core\n 780 MHz mem\n 128-bit\n 12.48 GB/s\n 12 pixel pipelines\n 9.0c\n \nRadeon 9600 XT\n 500 MHz\n 600 MHz\n 128-bit\n 9.6 GB/s\n 4 pixel pipelines\n 9.0\n\nGeForce 6800\n 325 MHz Core\n 700 MHz mem\n 256-bit\n 22.4 GB/s\n 12 PPs\n 9.0c\n\nThe 6800 will give you the best performance for the dollar. It operates on a PCI-E interface and most importantly operates on a 256 bit system allowing it to almost double its memory performance speed of the x1600 pro.\n\nThe x1600 pro isn't a bad card, I have one, but if you have the PCI-E slot, get the 6800.
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the x1300 is a very good video card that will do what you want and beyond link goes to a place to buy it
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Apparantly when he gave his "REAL" answer, he neglected to read the "REAL" question.  This best video card you can get for $150 to $200 is this:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814136001 a 7900GS, while not the absolute best card out, still a very good card that I am sure you will be more than happy with.\n\nAs for motherboard, you do need an nVidia chipset motherboard to run SLI.  nVidia chipsets work fine with Intel processors.  Here is the problem, currently there is only one nVidia chipset that will support true full SLI, that is the nForce 590.  The others will give you SLI, but the PCI Express slots will only run at 8x each, therefore not giving you the full bandwidth.  nVidia is scheduled to release new chipsets next week, so you may want to take a look at those.\n\nHere is what I would recommend however.  Next year the new PCI Express specification is coming out, which will double the bandwidth of each slot.  I would recommend just buying an inexpensive non SLI board now, and then upgrading to one of the new boards when they come out, especially since you don't plan on having two cards right now anyway.