What is the highest video card for windows xp in terms of performance ( price not an issue) available?
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Graphic Card companies like ATI or Nividia are always releasing new graphic cards. I would check their websites and look. Don't be suprised to pay $600  for the best.
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The minimum requirements for Windows XP is\nPC with 300 megahertz or higher processor clock speed recommended; 233 MHz minimum required (single or dual processor system);* Intel Pentium/Celeron family, or AMD K6/Athlon/Duron family, or compatible processor recommended\n128 megabytes (MB) of RAM or higher recommended (64 MB minimum supported; may limit performance and some features)\n1.5 gigabytes (GB) of available hard disk space*\nSuper VGA (800 x 600) or higher-resolution video adapter and monitor\nCD-ROM or DVD drive\n\nhttp://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/sysreqs.mspx\n\nI can guarantee you that it will be impossible to work on a PC with the minimum requirements - I can work barely on a AMD 800 MHz / 384 MB machine
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About your best bet is the GeForce 6600 GT brilliant mid range card
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This is like asking which is better Ford or Chevy.\nYou'll probably get answers from both sides (notice I said sides).  Most people have one video card.  Specs and testing again are like cars.  Some specs are better for one side some specs favor the other side.\nnVidia fans will trash ATI. ATI will trash nVidia.\nThese are the two major players and both have their advantages.\nAlso best graphics card for DVD playback?...for gaming? ...photoediting? PCI Express or AGP? \nBelow is a good link.
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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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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
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the best AGP graphics card is still the ATI X850XT for about $230. of course there are much better cards but these are all based on the PCI express x16 interface.\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?N=1069609639&Submit=ENE&Description=x850xt&Ntk=all
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PCworld says the the nVidia GeForce 7800 GTX is the best.  Check the link below.
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The first thing you want to do is bag windows 98 and get XP right away. Then if you want to get a new graphics card, you have to know what type of slot it is (PCI-AGP-PCIE) Then you can figure out which graphics card you need to get. Also, make sure that your power supply is enough to run a good card, you gunna wanna need at least 350 watts. Now if you want to go with a new sound card, I would recommend any Creative brand card either Audigy X-Fi etc... I would also recommend on getting more RAM for the "old Dell" \n\nI hope this helps!
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i suggest you don't, Windows XP need at least 256MB or more of RAM to run smoothly
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THE FIRST THING you should buy is RAM because you only have 256...\n\nWindows XP alone requires a minimum of 256 RAM to run. These days they are making computers with nothing less than 1GIG of RAM which is 1,024 RAM Versus your 256...\n\nWhat you need to do, is tell me your computer BRAND and MODEL... For example...\n\nDell, Dimension 2600... Which is usually found somewhere on your pc, unless its custom built...\n\nIf you tell me your make and model, I can tell you what you have and what can be upgraded on it, and where you can get it cheapest... Email me if you like or just EDIT your question with the info I just requested.\n\n\n\nMickey below is wrong, not having a video card can slow your PC down, also depending on what type of video card you have CAN slow your PC down or not...\nSome video cards are integrated, and they use your actual RAM for the video memory, which TAKES AWAY from the RAM you need to run your programs, THUS making it slower...
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All looks fine except for your RAM, it is not enough to run XP hardly, it is reiculous to put that little RAM in a machine that has XP. The NVidia video 6100 GPU isn't too bad if you don't play games. I was actually fairly impressed with that chipset when I tried it out on a motherboard. An emachine might not let you upgrade graphics however. \nMain thing is RAM
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go for DELL with 256MB Nvidia display card.
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An 8500 is worthless if you want games to play well.  What price range are you looking at?\n\nI'd say a decent, not great, card would be a 6600 or a 9800 Pro.
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AMD FX60 (around 1000.00) a GeForce 7900 GTX EXTREME at $549 (which is far from the most expensive video card...)\nIf you don't really want the best, then a AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ is $630 and a Geforce 7800GTX 256MB is around $500.\nAffordable is relative...
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Go for Nvidia Geforce FX5200 with 256MB on board memory.  There are several variants of card based on this FX5200 chip.  Both AGP, PCI and PCIe.  This is cheap, compatible with Direct X9, and compatible with Windows Media centre.  You can get versions of this card with TV out (handy for media centre, playing DVDs) and you can get half height/low profile version of this card if you have small PC (eg HP D530, a great media centre PC).   Search for FX5200.
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http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html\n\nThe above link is a visual representation comparing "video card" performance.