Good Video Card

[FrankieF21]

I am builind and was plannign on getting an ATI but heard that there were problems with the company so descided with nvidia and the GeForce FX 5700. Is this a decent card. I will be doing occasional gaming mostly photo and video editing and running dual monitors. Is this a good card. Any other suggestions...thanks

[butch81385]

i can tell you what the majority of the people here will say:
"get the ATI, the FX series sucks (or blows, or stinks, etc)"

personally i dont have a problem with nvidia and would take the 5700 over my current card, but according to the people who have these cards, the ati equivelant is so much better

[HeadBand]

that is a nice card that will definatley suit your needs but nvida with the fx series has been having more problems than ati

i would suggest a radeon 9600XT which can be found on newegg for ~$160

[slinky]

Many times better than the 9600XT and 5700 (in fact, best bang for the buck) 128MB FX 5900 $180. There's been so much demand for this card that Newegg actually raised the prices for their 5900s 5-10 dollars. And, to date few people have had any real problems with their FXs.

[Kruzin]

For video and photo editing, Matrox Parhelia is better than anything ATI or nV has. And it does fine for games as well.

Parhelia does triple head in many configurations, including 2 CRTs+ a TV. This comes in more than a little handy with video editing. Add a Matrox RT .x10 or .x100 capture/editing card, and you've got a dream editing rig.
For Photo editing, nobody but Matrox offers 10 bit gigacolor (and plugins to make use of it), and multi-monitor color calibrations (other cards can only do color cal on the primary head).
With games, it's not the fastest, but it's plenty fast enough, and the only card that can do triplehead surround gaming.

[joker_927]

Isn't that one of those $1,000 video cards?

[rimper1]

i'm a builder and i now only get ati cards not any SE's (they suck) for gameing good for work. price is right. The FX's i had to meny returns on so stoped buying them. Cant afford ups back for rma's all the time. Only 2 RMA's on ATI Lots on nvidia cards.

[Kruzin]

Isn't that one of those $1,000 video cards?

Depends on the model, and if you are talking about just a Parhelia, or also an RT card.

Prices from Shopmatrox.com
(can easily be found conciderably cheaper...well the Parhelia can, not necc. the RT cards...)

128meg Parhelia = $399 (found one for $322 at reseller ratings)
256meg Parhelia = $599 ($556 at RR)
RT .X10 = $699
RT .x100 = $1099-1499

[FrankieF21]

Who would be a good RMA to buy from. I have either descided between the (which vendor)9600XT, the POWERCOLOR RADEON 9700PRO, or the maybe a GeForce FX 5900. Any recomendations. The only vendor on newegg was powercolor. how is their service.... are they reliable. Any other recomendations.

[tony_j15]

Any vendor on Newegg is gonna be fine. Powercolor,Saphire, Hercules, blah blah. I can personally vouch for the Powercolor 9700, good card.