Which is the best graphic card brand? BFG, XFX, or EVGA?
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They are all excellent brands. Pick one that seems to be the right mix of performance and price. BFG makes excellent cards but you're going to pay the price. I have an EVGA and it's been perfect. Check out reviews on newegg.com and about a zillion other hardware review sites.
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tough one...\n\nIt is not so much the graphic cards memory size that you need to consider. One card with a memory of 128 may be a lot better than a card with a memory of 256, it is all down to the cards architecture/speed/pipelines etc.\n\nout of the above listed, they are both very similar cards, perhaps the geforce just edging it.\n\ngo to www.ebuyer.co.uk and see what cards have been commonly bought within your price range, may give you a clearer idea on what to get, read the reviews people have left on the cards too.
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There's various review sites on the net that'll give you the results they got running gfx card on various games. Here's one that runs the 7600Gt with FEAR and other games:\n\nhttp://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/gigabyte_7600gt_4.php
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Okay, first of all the X1300 is a horrible card for gaming, second of all, I need to see how much 170 euros is in dollars (goes to Google), okay, nice budget you got there.  I would look toward a nVidia 7600GS or 7600GT.  I would go for the GT though if you could, I'd try to get two 7600GS's as they have performance close to a 7900GT when you pair them together over SLi but then you have to have an SLi motherboard and a suffiecently powerful power supply.\n\nIf you're still stuck with AGP look for either the 6600GS or Radeon X1600, they're far from the best but tons better than the worst cards out there.  I hope you aren't stuck with AGP.\n\nSpeaking of which, you'll be buying new cards in about a year for DirectX 10 support and no card made today supports it, they won't be out until the end of the year.  If you need a stop-gap between them, the 7600GT is an excellent choice.
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nvidia geforce 7800 gt oc is a PCI Express card\n\nnvidia geforce 7800 gs oc is a AGP card
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AMD is the best and the fastest! Want proof? Check out this link! http://shopper.cnet.com/4002-7409_9-6444571.html
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First make sure you can disable the intergrated graphic controller before you buy a new graphic card. \n\nNext you need to make sure that it is the right Bus like PCI or PCIe. I have even seen some computers come with intergrated graphics only to keep the price down, but also inlcude a AGP slot in case you wanted to upgrade later.\n\nAfter thats  decided then you should get the most recent one ATI or Nividia. Because there are newer features that games use(example: shaders). Other then that just make sure the one you order says retail or boxed version. Because you don't want to end up getting a cheap card that's sent in a bag with a burn cd for the drivers.
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Best consumer graphics card by NVIDIA: Geforce 7800 GTX 512MB\nBest consumer graphics card by ATI:    X1900 XTX\n\nThe reason I specify both is because they're so close that it depends on the game. NVIDIA has traditionally done better with opengl games (ut series, doom, etc) while ati has faired better with games like Half Life 2.\n\nI actually would not recommend the nvidia quatro earlier mentioned because the quadro is a workstation graphics card designed for a professional environment. You can get nearly the same performance for much less out of the top of the line gaming graphics cards on the market. from wikipedia: "3D cards for model rendering in art and animation use different cards than those used for games. nVIDIA's "Quadro" series, which can cost over a thousand dollars, is geared toward rendering and 3D animation, while the GeForce series is meant for gaming and actually performs much faster at a lower price." So unless you're looking to do predominantly CAD work or other professional jobs, I'd buy a gaming card.\n\nbigdaddy: You gave the best workstation graphics card. I gave the best gaming cards. Since they are designed to perform different tasks, I thought that a distinction needed to be made. Thus I stated why I felt that the cards I mentioned were better _for_a_typical_consumer_.
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7900 GTX is faster then the x1900 by 1.6 gb/s in processing power. Not a whole lot really. \n\nThe x800 xtPE is only faster then the GeForce 7800 GT, the rest of the 7800s are faster.
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The best PCI video card on the market right now is Radeon X1300 256MB GDDR2 PCI. Much better than FX5200 in every way .. except price :)
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I've you got good money go ahead and buy the Nvidia 7900 GTS, that will make your dreams come true and put a 500 dollar worth of damage in your pocket too.\n\nYou can't go wrong with an Nvidia 6800 GS neither, it's pretty good.
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Generally it's not the case that a card is advertised as compatible with a list of games, but more often that a game supports a list of graphics chipsets.\nI have found \nhttp://www.tomshardware.co.uk/site/vgacharts/index.html\nuseful in determining the relative ability of graphics cards.\nEssentially, it comes down to how much you are able/willing to pay, within the constraints of which card type your mobo will support.  \nhttp://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/SubCategory.asp?SubCategory=48 is useful for filtering down the list of what's generally available.\nGood Hunting!
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For AGP, this would be the best: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/6600AGP_Series.html- the £120 6800GS is by far the best deal.  It's at least 70% faster than a 6600GT, which is nearly as expensive.\n\nFor PCI-E, either of the bottom two on this page would give you very, very good performance: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/6800PCI_Series.html, although the 7600GS's and 7600GT's on this page would give better performance, for not much more money: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/7300___7600_Series.html\n\nedit: ATI doesn't have much performance in that price range, so that's why I didn't mention ATI.
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My Preference would always be Nvidia...
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Well sorry to say this but the 7800 GTX processor from nvidia isn't te best one. It was untill ATI released the new radeon 1900 processor. It's aprox 10% faster. But things aren't going to stop here. nVidia already announced the new 7900 GTX processor (to beat what ati has conquered :)). Tehnically speaking, there is no best video card looking at how computers delevop. If today this is the best one, tommorow voila, something better appears. \nAnd if you want a link with a card based on Radeon 1900 processor, well you could try it here:
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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
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dude, you suck. but here goes:\nordinary vga cards don't have a GPU (Graphic Processing Unit) while 3d graphic cards do. why does this matter? because with the GPU, all process for 3d display is re-routed to the GPU, thus freeing the CPU (ie. microprocessor, Athlon, Pentium, whatever) from exessive load. this is how a 3d graphic card is required for certain games. the amount of processing is just too much for the CPU to handle. put simply, with a 3d graphic card present, your cpu doesn't have to process any 3d graphic at all ... so, the performance is just that: DIFFERENT.\non the look, well, you aren't gonna see much of ordinary graphic cards anymore. most mainboard producer provide on-board vga card. anyway, they used to have no HSF (heat sink fan) because the processor doesn't need any. it doesn't do much of a work anyways. if you look at a 3d graphic card, you'll see a fan, or at least some kind of hear sink (metal piece pressed to the chip). IMHO, the bigger the fan, the more power the GPU has. but that's just how you recognize a 3d VGA. you should read the specification, some of these cards can have a misleading appearance.