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Old 11-27-2007, 08:40 PM   #1
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Question What is the best graphics card on the market?

Quite simply...what is the absolute best video/graphics card on the market? No matter the price.
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Old 11-27-2007, 08:46 PM   #2
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I think the best is the 8800gtx.
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Old 11-27-2007, 09:09 PM   #3
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According to Tom's Hardware's VGA charts, the 8800 Ultra is the best card. It had the highest overall FPS score in their tests. However, the card does cost more than my entire computer.
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Darn. I forgot they made an ultra.
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Old 11-28-2007, 12:08 PM   #5
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er...the 8850GTX is the best???....2 chips on 1 card??
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Old 11-28-2007, 01:01 PM   #6
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8850gtx? Never heard of it. Do you have a link to it?
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Old 11-28-2007, 01:15 PM   #7
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Well, if we are talking about unreleased cards then maybe Radeon HD 3870 X2.

Catscon is probably right about a current card.
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Old 11-28-2007, 02:34 PM   #8
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Best card that can be bought at this very moment is 8800 Ultra...
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Old 11-28-2007, 06:24 PM   #9
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Link for those who need it. Taken from the EVGA website, so the price might not be the same everywhere.
Huge price though.
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Old 12-01-2007, 02:06 PM   #10
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Are you referring to the best GAMING or the best GRAPHICS card?
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Old 12-01-2007, 09:17 PM   #11
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Well I have owned both Nvidia and ATI, many benchmarks say the 8800Ultra is the best. Many game players I know feel the HD2900XT is a better card. If you go with the numbers it is the 8800 Ultra hands down.
If you go with opinions you will get conflicting answers.
The ATI cards seem to be working great with the AMD chipsets. There are far more Nvidia motherboards on the market than AMD so Nvidia dominates.
Before I bought my current HD2900XT I had an evga 8800GTX and it had a lot of problems so I sent it back and got the ATI HD2900XT. I have had it for 4 months now without any issues.
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Old 12-05-2007, 09:39 PM   #12
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Link for those who need it. Taken from the EVGA website, so the price might not be the same everywhere.
Huge price though.
the EVGA site is alot higher.i just got the 8800 ultra yesterday for 689$$ shipped. the 8800's are hard to come by now. i can now play crysis with everything maxed out. great card
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