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Old 11-18-2005, 01:19 PM
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Default Video card recommendation < $130

We are going to be editing/make DVD's and the current 64mb card = no workie.
AGP pls.

Any thoughts?
http://shop1.outpost.com/product/400...H:MAIN_RSLT_PG

http://shop1.outpost.com/product/449...H:MAIN_RSLT_PG

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Old 11-18-2005, 03:04 PM
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Of those two, I would take the VisionTek.

This one's not bad, if you don't mind doing mail order:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...TT=Video+Cards


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Mail order is cool with me. That looks like a good option. I'll prob order a card over the weekend.

Thanks for your input.

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6600 GT. About 125 bucks great card.
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Try www.newegg.com they seem to always have the best price and I have ordered alot of stuff from them.

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This on is on sale at Fry's:


http://shop4.outpost.com/product/4494516
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Originally Posted by chupr0kabra
Of those two, I would take the VisionTek.

This one's not bad, if you don't mind doing mail order:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...TT=Video+Cards


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and then of course, there's This One, which has HDTV outputs as well, if that's important to you, and is clocked higher on both the core and memory, to boot....

plus, ATI has generally been known to have slightly better picture quality, for the most part
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however, if you are going to be doing any gaming on it also, you might be better off getting one of these two:

eVGA 128-A8-N350 Geforce 6600GT

AOpen 90.05210.616 Geforce 6600GT

as the 6600gt will give you better gaming performance than either the plain 6600 or the X700, and each of these comes out to less than $130 after their mail-in rebates, if you don't mind doing that sort of thing.....
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Originally Posted by 00 Z-28
This on is on sale at Fry's:


http://shop4.outpost.com/product/4494516

that card only has 4 pixel pipelines and 128MB memory, vs. 8 pipelines and 256MB memory that all the others posted (except for the ones the OP posted, and the 6600gt's that i posted)




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