Best videocard for your dolla dolla

[VanShania]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102022
Sapphire Radeon X1900GT 256MB DDR3 PCI-Ex16 Graphics Card - Dual DVI,
HDTV, Video-In, Video-Out, Crossfire support $205.84

Looking at the charts on toms hardware, AGP cards and any card in the ati
9000 series(and lower) and nvidias 5000 series(and lower) have only 33% of
the power that modern pci-Express cards have. Even ATI's X1600 series isn't
even worth looking at as they are just as slow. The best video card out
right now thats worth its money for anyone's budget is the one mentioned
above. Nvidia has similar cards in performance but they are more expensive
and the graphics still arn't upto ATI's standard.

I've also noticed that all the new motherboards that came out supporting AM2
and Core 2 Duo have only PCI-Ex1 slots instead of PCI-Ex4 slots. I wonder if
there is just as much problems with PCI-Ex4 slots as -Ex1

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A64 3500+, Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939,AIW 9800 Pro 128mb
MSI 550 Pro, X-Fi, Pioneer 110D, 111D
Antec 550 watt,Thermaltake Lanfire,2 Gb OCZ Platinum 2-3-2-5
2XSATA 320gb Raid Edition, PATA 120Gb
XP MCE2005, 19in Viewsonic,BenchMark 2001 SE- 19074
Games I'm Playing- Falcon 4, winSPWW2, winSPMBT, Call of Duty War Chest

 

[VanShania]

course for $50-$100 more you can get an even better card thats 2x faster
than the X1900GT
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102067
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102061
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102070


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Love and Teach, Not Yell and Beat
Stop Violence and Child Abuse.
No such thing as Bad Kids. Only Bad Parents.
The most horrible feeling in the world is knowing that No One is There to
Protect You.

A64 3500+, Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939,AIW 9800 Pro 128mb
MSI 550 Pro, X-Fi, Pioneer 110D, 111D
Antec 550 watt,Thermaltake Lanfire,2 Gb OCZ Platinum 2-3-2-5
2XSATA 320gb Raid Edition, PATA 120Gb
XP MCE2005, 19in Viewsonic,BenchMark 2001 SE- 19074
Games I'm Playing- Falcon 4, winSPWW2, winSPMBT, Call of Duty War Chest

 

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I would check the typical places like tomshardware for benchmarks but I
believe the X1950PRO provides the sweet spot right now at the $200 price
point.

Stay away from the Sapphire X1950PRO(not ultimate, the base version, check
newegg for all the negative feedback on this board). It has fatal flaw in
the cooling of the VRM and there's a rash of returns on the cards(I had to
return mine). They've come out with an ultimate version where the cooling
is properly implemented, look for that one. There's also the HIS version
which is quiet and is overclocked out of the box.