what is the best video card for my PC?
475660
Go with ATI. its cheaper and my 512 MB card plays EVERYTHING on full graphics. Whether you have pcix, pci, or agp, there isnt much difference because the true speed is determined by your motherboard. If you have an old motherboard, dont waste your money on an expensive video card.
12830
See Below for a link to HD-Out cards.\n\nThe video card won't matter for TV watching but it will matter for DVD playback.  Even if you aren't going to game, some low end video cards result in choppy playback.  It depends on how much you want to spend but I like the GeForce 6600 or 6600GT with 128MB of memory.  If you go for the ATi camp then a Radeon 9600XT should be fine.  I know for a fact these provide smooth play back.  Though it depends on what type of connection you were going to use.  Most video cards have S-Video out but it depends on what you were planning to use.\n\nIt also depends on if you are going to use PCIe (PCI Express) or an AGP slot for the card.\n\nI would (depending on the type of connection you want to use) buy a seperate video card and get a PCI TV tuner card, if you have a spare PCI slot.\n\nFor HD-Out cards, see this page but stick to the guidlines above for the GPU, http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?submit=PROPERTY&SubCategory=48&propertycodevalue=2328:14100&bop=and&order=PRICE\nMaybe you missed it, the above link will take you to a bunch of cards that have HD-Out.
396174
Video Card is the first thing you want to upgrade.
1060419
The fastest PCI video card you can buy is the 256MB ATI 9250: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102527  If you meant PCI-e, then this would be the best card for the money: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814131319 although you'd probably be happy with this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814161161
346757
Plenty.  I was going to say any of the Radeon X series or NVIDIA 6000/7000 series.
1110854
Basically, if you have the cooling capabilities to handle it, I would suggest the 256MB card.  The more memory, the better it is capable of handling difficult graphics.
280007
There is no such thing as the Very Best. Each company has their ups and downs. It all depends on what you need. Nvidia is one of the top though, yes. I personally prefer ATI products.
1100117
check and compare specs and prices. know what you want your card to do. i picked up a nvidia geforce 6600gt for around your price and it works fine for me. i also understand if i want to play some of the newer games coming out i might need to get a better card. but for now this one does great for me. keeps up with multiplayer games and works great when i play games offline. \n\n   look at whatever games you have or are going to get and see what they recommend, and get a card a little better then what they recommend so it isn't obsolete to soon.\n \n   P.S. check out  www.newegg.com  there prices are good and ships fairly fast. also you can compare and read others views on the items you are looking at.
1002818
ATI and NVidia video cards tend to dominate the market.  They're good because a lot of technology behind the scenes, and research, is put into their products.  But they're also expensive the newer they are.\n\nCurrently you're going to be hard pressed to find a video card strictly designed for Windows Vista being that it won't be sold to the public until early 2007 (businesses in late 2006).\n\nBut you will be in luck because it's been said that Windows Vista will be "backwards compatible".  So pretty much any video card you buy will most likely work with Vista.  On the flipside of that, you'll have to get the Vista drivers for the video card when they become available.\n\nAdditionally, it's been shown that Vista is going to be rich in color and viewability.  More so than Windows XP.  So to maximize this benefit, you'll probably want to invest some good money into a video card that has at least 512 MB in memory.  Therefore Vista will look nicer to you and the card won't get old as fast as say you bought 128 MB video card right now (Vista minimum required).
27979
If I understand the question, you should go with a pci-e. The pipelines are bigger and you get better results without tying up your CPU trying to process video commands. \nOf course you do know that PCI-E is a different type of socket in the computer, right? You will need a motherboard in your computer that has the PCI-E slot, or the card will not fit in your computer.
714480
Definitely, go for the gold GeForce 7950 GX2 would work great on your pc, even some of the newer ATI cards like the X1900 Crossfire edition.  And no you don't have to upgrade your RAM, you have 2GBs already which is great, but you know if you have the money to blow, why the hell not max it out!!  Oh yeah, these components will mean more heat, so you might want to think about a few memory heatsinks and maybe upgrade your cooling components.
162308
One of the most important things for playing games is the hard drive (big and very fast )and RAM (fast 2 Gigabyte)and of course the video card (the best you can get/can pay). After this you must have a very fast monitor 4 ms refresh no more. You can take AMD or Intel they both are dependable.
1006344
I had a 5200 and it was nice for limited gaming.  If you are into serious gaming like BF2 or FarCry or other graphics heavy applications.  You want to try to spend as much as possible on a great video card.  The nVidia 6800 with 256 Mb of memory is what I'm using now and I love it.  It's by no means a top of the line card only cost about $160, but it works for the games I mentioned great.  I have PCI-Express though and that may make a difference.  You can get great reviews on vid cards at www.tomshardware.com along with prices from tiger and zipzoomfly.
1177116
Though I can't promise that it will be a REALLY good video card, http://www.newegg.com offers computer hardware for decent prices.\n\nRemember to make sure that it is compatible with your motherboard.
478702
neither i would go for a nividia geforce 6600 GT 256MB this graphics card rocks and its also cheap \n\nor an nivdia geforce 6800 GT
862509
Sorry Sasho -- not correct. Matrox is outdated and their top tier cards are only good for some workstations. Look to any nVIDA based 7900-7900-8800 class card forthe best, or an ATI based card X1900. ATI has the best IQ (image quality) in my opinion, save the newest $650.00 behemouth nVIDA based 8800GTX -- but the 8800 is DX10 based and XP won't be able to see any DX10 benefits (only Vista will use DX10). So right now I would say a Sapphire X1900XTX or eVGA 7950GTX would be the best right now unless you can afford the 8800GTX and will use Vista very soon.
368141
Upgrade your graphic card. Get one which has atleast 128mb vram.