Which graphics card to get?

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I am buying a PCI Express card for my system soon and am wondering the
difference between these cards. I have been trying to decide between
NVidea and ATI. From what I've read it seems the x800 is faster than
the Nvidea 6800 but yet the 7800 is faster than the X850.
What makes my buying decision hard is I use my computer for almost
everything. I play games on it but as well use it for playing DVD's,
rendering video, graphic design, as well as general office use.
I want a card that has HDTV outputs (DVI and component) as well as
possibly digital inputs since I plan to hook it up to a HDTV with
time.
Any ideas of which cards I should look at? There are so many
different companies making these cards such as ATI, ASUS,
Sapphire,Leadtek, EVGA, MSI, BFG, and PNY, etc.

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"BigJim" <woody10277@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> well if you can afford it the 7800 is the top of the line
> I run a 6600gt 128meg and I have not found a game that it won't run
> properly
> with decent frame rates/
>
> "MarkW" <markwco@RemoveNoSpamcomcast.net> wrote in message
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>>I am buying a PCI Express card for my system soon and am wondering the
>> difference between these cards. I have been trying to decide between
>> NVidea and ATI. From what I've read it seems the x800 is faster than
>> the Nvidea 6800 but yet the 7800 is faster than the X850.
>> What makes my buying decision hard is I use my computer for almost
>> everything. I play games on it but as well use it for playing DVD's,
>> rendering video, graphic design, as well as general office use.
>> I want a card that has HDTV outputs (DVI and component) as well as
>> possibly digital inputs since I plan to hook it up to a HDTV with
>> time.
>> Any ideas of which cards I should look at? There are so many
>> different companies making these cards such as ATI, ASUS,
>> Sapphire,Leadtek, EVGA, MSI, BFG, and PNY, etc.
>

Go with Nvidia. The reason being ATI's current run of cards don't fully
support current games (so they probably wont support future games either)
since they don't fully support directx 9.0c. as to the model and the brand
I'm currently running an xfx 6600gt...good card but that have non existent
tech support (my card stopped displaying the color red for awhile). BFG
makes a good card (and has a lifetime warranty even if you overclock the
card more then it comes out of the box). hope that helps a bit.