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Originally Posted by geetrue
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Originally Posted by RedHammer
If you want, as you said in first post, the best card, I dont want to make some bragging here so I`d just recommend 2 cards which I have no experience in, but of which I have heard has Tremendous performance, The Ati Radeon X1950XT Pro, which is said to be working very good at XP gaming, and the GeForce 8800 GTX 768 MB XXX from XfX which, will work for Vista (Direct X10 support.) and as far as I know, SH4 will support Vista eventually 
Ur friend in the pacific
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Take it from a non-expert  Red Hammer has given you the best advice.
Except I would go for the ATI card, because you already have one in the X1400 range anyway and the Radeon X1950XT Pro is a great card for DX9c ...
Go to Pricewatch.com and type in his two choices for video cards (one at a time) in the search engine ... go down the list they give you and pick the retail version of the card ... not the oem. Click on order and it will be there in three or four days.
I agree New Egg is the best on the west coast and you don't have to pay state tax, because you live in Washington (not California).
You don't sound to savy on how to install it ... so find a local in the yellow pages to install it for you ... while he is installing the video cars have your computer cleaned up (fans, cards, interior) get the latest drivers scan for spyware, defrag ... etc.
Come home a happy man ... :p
Don't forget to ask him how to stay up to date on drivers, etc. 
Stop talking about croaking ... I'll see you back here when SH5 comes out ... isn't this a blast watching everyone jump around like a bunch of indians on the war path ... Oh yeah I've been through three of these come out parties now and I can't wait for the next one.
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Also got me thinking, here in norway, the X1950 PRO costs only 200 american dollars, 1600 Norwegian Krones. and this is the card that`s almost as good as the 7800 GTX. I think it has to do with the R series release by next month. So I agree, get the ATI one. It`s really really really cheap. And hence u can save your Money for a Vista computer sometime later. 2 flies in one smack.
Edit: And also, with the low cost of the X1950 Pro, you can afford a good 500 W Power Supply Unit!
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