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EVGA 017-P3-1295-AR CO-OP Edition GeForce GTX 295

$665.00 Est. at Amazon

from Odogx44x, www.newegg.com
Pros: Well these cards are defiantly what you want if you love games, and of course you can just have one!
from Crapnell Gates, www.newegg.com
Pros: To access your free game downloads you have to go to EVGA.com and register your card, from there you can download your games.
from JB, www.newegg.com
Pros: This is a very nice card.
from saywat, www.newegg.com
Pros: Work great right out of the box, installed on a new build.
from Mike, www.newegg.com
Pros: The pro's are that this is a very powerful gpu card.

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Positives: Installed Memory: 1.75 GB, Display Interface: DVI-I (dual link) x 2, Card Interface: PCI Express, Memory Tech: DDR3 SDRAM

2 RECOMMENDED by 30 people for OVERALL

SPARKLE Computer GeForce 9800GTX

$124.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
Trying to deal with Sparkle now, but there is no customer service to speak of.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
Cons: Attempted to install this card, upon loading the drivers my PC now blue screens at start up.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
My computer randomly locks up requiring hard reset.
from Not for me, www.newegg.com
Cons: I also received a defective card that would run fine in Windows but threw out artifacts in games and would lock up the whole system requiring hard reset.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
Pros: Card is much shorter and slimmer than the other 9800 GTX+ cards.

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Positives: Installed Memory: 512 MB, Graphic Processor: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX, Display Interface: DVI x 1, Card Interface: PCI Express

3 RECOMMENDED by 30 people for OVERALL

EVGA 02G-P3-1185-AR GeForce GTX 285 2GB 512-bit

$558.00 Est. at Amazon

from EVGA LOVER, www.newegg.com
you will recieve an additional top of the line video game for free in addition to one other game and a full version of 3dmark vantage performance software, all in all, about $80 worth of stuff.
from Drekonnis, www.newegg.com
registration on the web site took seconds , everything simple and nicely done, recieved access to free games, advance rma (if i will ever need it).guys, if you really do planing to get a new card -
from Crazyhorse65, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: this card is cheaper on evga.com's site and, it comes with the cryostasis game free when you buy it from them on www.evga.com
from N/A, www.newegg.com
it runs a lot cooler than my old evga nvidia card which is always a plus.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
i'm comparing it to my old pc with a nvidia gt 7800 card.

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Positives: Fast, Excellent Affordability, Nice Software Controls, Installed Memory: 2 GB

4 RECOMMENDED by 22 people for OVERALL

Pine Technology XFX GX275XAHFF GeForce GTX 275

$283.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
Cons: If you're planning on overclocking the card, however, then you're going to want some reserves.
from Fluffy-X, www.newegg.com
Pros: Fast, Cheap, Good company, Nice design, Runs at a decent temp (just like 10c hotter then my 8800gt from XFX), and at the time it was on sale for 10 bucks and I got like 3 games and 3D mark Vantage for free with it.
from Mike, www.newegg.com
Pros: Great card performs well and has great effects.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
Pros: Great card runs quiet will likely sli in future.
from Vinnie, www.newegg.com
Pros: Great card.

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Positives: Installed Memory: 896 MB, Display Interface: DVI x 2, Card Interface: PCI Express, Memory Tech: DDR3 SDRAM

5 RECOMMENDED by 51 people for OVERALL

PNY VCGGTX260CXPB XLR8 260 Core 216 896MB DVI +

$202.00 Est. at Amazon

from Sir, www.newegg.com
would highly recommend it to any gamer who cannot afford the higher gtx 295s or 290s cons: i wouldnt say this is a con, but the card is massive in length.
from Kryton, www.newegg.com
money is a good way to go.while playing msfs x there are a few times when it glitches for a sec or 2 so the game can catch up but i think that is when you are moving from 1 scenery region to another.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
so far all i've really tested is wow, but i can report that it handles that at "ultra" settings and laughs at it.
from Dmoney, www.newegg.com
with one card i can run any game great with all eyecandy turned up.i even got two of these monsters for two for the price of one.
from Happy with it, www.newegg.com
i have a full atx case and it touches my hard drives and blocks most of my sata ports, but wow the graphics are great!!

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Positives: Great Affordability, Fast, Excellent Performance, Installed Memory: 896 MB

EVGA 896-P3-1171-AR GeForce GTX 275 Superclocked

$351.00 Est. at Amazon

from Scotty, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: noticed a problem where my vista 64bit was only reconizing 366mb of the video ram on the card when it has 896mb.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
i got this card and have been extremely happy with it's performance.
from Dan, www.newegg.com
price: if it wasn't for the "free" game (at the time of this purchase), i bet this would've been $50 bucks cheaper.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
i decided on this card so i could play a large back catalog of games i haven't touched until now.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
it handels evey game i throw at it all max settings.

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Positives: Good Affordability, Fast, Excellent Performance, Installed Memory: 896 MB

EVGA 896-P3-1170-AR GeForce GTX 275 896MB GDDR3

$275.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
i am able to run games like battlefield 2 (project reality mod), farcry2, armed assault, empire total war, etc at max res and with all the bells and whistles turned on and this card handles it.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: this is a very powerful card, and most benchmarks show it about as powerful as a gtx 280, and 10% slower than a gtx 285 for most games.
from CriticalPoint, www.newegg.com
have already logged a couple hundred hours worth of gaming and benchmarks in the last month and the card has handled it all without any issues.
from Skavenleet, www.newegg.com
the card is at 40 degree c idle and while running wow it's at 47-50 degrees c.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: the card measured from the inside face of the bracket is 10.5 inches long but the power connectors are on top making it a lot easier to plug in the two pci-e power connectors.

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Positives: Fast, Excellent Affordability, Quiet Operation, Installed Memory: 896 MB

Sapphire HD4870

$164.00 Est. at Amazon

from Sensai, www.newegg.com
i don't play many graphic intensive games but i did feel the need to install crysis just to see how it would run at max settings.
from www.amazon.com
this card is magnificent, with the new catalyst drivers thus baby runs any new generation game with ease, paired with my new core i7 920 it is more than enough to run crysis at max settings.
from FADETOBLACK, www.newegg.com
and yes its only for braging rights to my friends because with this card it plays all games on my 24' monitor at max settings( flawless) and anyone that says otherwise is a fanboy or just staight
from www.amazon.com
wow a beast very fast card raise up the fan speed to 100% and the card will run very cool and smooth i run it at (1920-1080) full hd its super fast and cool my card will never go above 45c it has a
from Neal R., www.newegg.com
it covers my other video card slot (not that i'd ever need sli with this kind of card), requires two pci-e power connectors, and made it difficult for me to place the sata cables (with a gigabyte

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Positives: Great Affordability, Nice Performance, Quiet Operation, Installed Memory: 1 GB

EVGA 512-P3-1150-TR GeForce GTS 250

$181.00 Est. at Amazon

from Apolyonn, www.newegg.com
i was actually looking at that game at target a couple of weeks before buying this card, and thinking, nah, i can't buy it, my card isn't good enough.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
i tried that cryostasis game that came included for free, this card runs it very smooth with no problem at all in 1280x1024 resolution.
from Bob, www.newegg.com
and games have never played smoother and better res,even if you have to pay retail 129 is a steal cons: got the first one from evga and it was a major pain didnt want to run stable with my
from TaDow, www.newegg.com
at this price you can't beat this card, evga is awesome cant wait to buy another one and sli it in my evga 780i fortw cons: the card froze twice since i got it, so when im gaming i turn the fan
from www.amazon.com
this is a great card for someone who is looking for a cheap videocard but also wants it to be able to handle all of todays games.

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Positives: Nice Affordability, Easy To Install, Fast, Installed Memory: 512 MB

Pine Technology XFX RADEON HD 4890 XT

$299.00 Est. at Amazon

from Steve, www.newegg.com
go figure.very happy with the framerates and performance this card delivers in the games i tested it with:crysis (vanilla & natural mod): highfallout 3: max settingslord of the rings online: max
from JimJee, www.newegg.com
it is nice sense there are a number of games out there that support dx 10.1 cons: no cons i can think of.
from Teky, www.newegg.com
crysis is the only game i own that even begins to tax this monster of a card.
from Pstanz15, www.newegg.com
that would be just a compatability issue with my computer screen other thoughts: this card works pretty well as a space heater when you are running some of the graphic intense games.
from www.amazon.com
i purchased this card for an all new gaming box to play directx 10 enabled games on micro$oft vista.

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Positives: Quiet Operation, Fast, Nice Performance, Installed Memory: 1 GB

SAPPHIRE 100259L RADEON HD 4870

$187.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
gaming at 1920 x 1200 is challenging for just about any card (now i said just about, gtx 295s are in a league of their own) and it does all games flawlessly with a few exceptions.
from jarocho1222, www.newegg.com
never had an ati card before and this card laughs at every game i throw at it.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
the card stays cool, quiet, and plays every game i throw at it on high settings at 1680x1050.
from xenocide, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: for the price this card is unbeatable, with the rest of my system it destroys any game i've played.
from LW, www.newegg.com
no games pushes the card past 80c, i guess it's just specific to furmark.only 512mb, which will be nothing in a few years.

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Positives: Quiet Operation, Good Affordability, Excellent Performance, Installed Memory: 512 MB

EVGA 896-P3-1255-AR GeForce GTX260 Core 216 896MB DDR3 PCI-Express 2.0

$269.00 Est. at Amazon

from nad_masters, www.shopping.com
review: when video card prices seem to get lower and lower, i found myself being able to sell my nvidia geforce 8800 gts 512 mb card for $100, so i decided to go for a nvidia gtx260 core 216 card
from Mikey4867, www.newegg.com
i game with this card and i put everything on high it will still run around 100 fps.
from Skidpalace, www.newegg.com
of course you can hear it when the card's fan is maxed out, but i haven't encountered that in a game yet.this card came preconfigured to the superclocked version's settings of 626/2106.
from johnathanb, www.newegg.com
anyone with a long case be 100% you can fit this card.it is 11.5 inch long and 2 pci slots wide other thoughts: none
from AllenB, www.newegg.com
instead, touched the top of the card and it was *hot* even idling in the vista desktop.

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Positives: Fast, Nice Affordability, Great Performance, Installed Memory: 896 MB

Gigabyte RADEON HD 4550

$59.00 Est. at Amazon

from sammy, www.newegg.com
Pros: - noiseless- cheap- Vista 64 bit score Graphics/Gaming: 5.1/5.2- cool for a video card (54C on idle) with ambient temp 25C
from Myself, www.newegg.com
Pros: - Passive- built in HDMI, so no dongle needed- Not too expensive
from embj, www.newegg.com
Pros: -fanless...stays cool to the touch, even though it's packed in a cube-style HTPC case with 2x TV tuner cards and a sound card-plays Blu Ray flawlessly @ 1080p-HDMI audio works great right out of the box (even though I'm not using it)-works grea...
from N/A, www.newegg.com
Hardware video decoders4.
from Mike, www.newegg.com
HDMI audio works but is pretty low volume.

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Positives: Installed Memory: 512 MB, Graphic Processor: ATI RADEON, Display Interface: VGA - 15 pin D-Sub x 1,DVI-I (dual link) x 1, Card Interface: PCI Express

SAPPHIRE 100265HDMI RADEON HD 4830

$95.00 Est. at Amazon

from NeMaTo, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: some games run better with geforce cards, while others run better with radeon lineups, so if you are looking to buy a new graphics card for a specific game, do your research first!
from Zedaine, www.newegg.com
good price for what you get, plays wow a lot better than the previous card that it replaced, which is the only thing my girlfriend plays anyways.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
however, you can disable your second monitor to overclock the card for gaming, and then when you are done you can re-enable it, but this is a huge pain.
from Nico, www.newegg.com
i get an average of 28 fps in crysis with all settings on very high and no aa on at 1280x1024 resolution.it came with a 4 pin molex to 6 pin pci-e adapter that i was initially going to buy
from N/A, www.newegg.com
i have enough extra pci sliots that i didnt care if one got coverd upi am not an overclocker so the sound of the fan isnt loud at all, i guess thats what other people are talking about.pcie 2.0heat

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Positives: Quiet Operation, Great Affordability, Nice Performance, Installed Memory: 512 MB

SAPPHIRE 100245HDMI RADEON HD 4850

$131.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
i don't typically go with dual solution video cars, but it's a very cheap card to run crossfire with.
from hofodomo, www.newegg.com
it idles at around 40-45c, and even after an hour of gaming (cod4 on high; empire total war on ultra) the card still manages not to rise much about 60c.
from Thiago, www.newegg.com
oh yeah, it had free shipping too.i'm yet to find a card like this at that price point i paid for.performance: it rivals my gtx 260 in most games, but it's not faster (of course not), specially at
from Lucas, www.newegg.com
im also running this card on an older mobo and only through a pci-e 4x slot and it works perfect.
from JMD88, www.newegg.com
it performs as a mid-high end card, and scales well in crossfire.

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Positives: Quiet Operation, Nice Affordability, Great Performance, Installed Memory: 512 MB

Pine Technology XFX GeForce GTS 250 DDR3 PCIE 738/2.2Ghz

$180.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
fantastic card for the price of it.likewise, the fact that it only requires a single 6 pin pci connector, versus the two needed to run its 9800gtx predecessor and gtx 260 successor, is great.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
it is a good buy for its price and it runs call of duty world at war on max just fine.
from Dazn, www.newegg.com
very good price/performance.got free shipping, free game and free 3dmark vantage cant beat it!
from www.amazon.com
i rather like this one over hd4850 because it offers the same or better performance, better driver compatibility for gaming and less software installation hassles.
from Brock, www.newegg.com
with a free amazing game!the boxing was absolutely stunning (bit of a design nerd)along with the graphics card.2 dvi cons: no hdmii get opengl rendering errors while working in after effects

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Positives: Good Affordability, Quiet Operation, Easy To Install, Installed Memory: 512 MB

Zotac GeForce 9800GT Amp Edition DDR3 PCI-Express 2DVI/HDCP ZT98GES5PFCP

$131.00 Est. at Amazon

from Hero, www.newegg.com
Other Thoughts: This card performs much better than I expected it to.
from mikmaze, www.newegg.com
Pros: card went in easy, only trouble was northbridge cooler making it tough for big fingers to get to retain tabs.
from arnspac, www.newegg.com
Look forward to more products from Zotac.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
I called newegg and they told me to call zotac.
from TRIrish66, www.newegg.com
Pros: Everything about this card is a pro.

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Positives: Installed Memory: 512 MB, Display Interface: DVI x 2, Output Interface: TV Out, Card Interface: PCI Express

VisionTek RADEON HD 4850

$183.00 Est. at Amazon

from lt.dell.com
i also tried a nvidia 9800gtx, which was also a killer card, but the radeon clocked alot higher!
from www.amazon.com
i came from a x800xt and the diference is so far away that the first time that i play games with this card it was jaw drooping im really happy with it, best decision in a long time all gaming
from Kris S., www.newegg.com
you know that if a card can run crysis on high settings with anti aliasing then you know it can run any other game maxed or near maxed out settings.
from www.amazon.com
this a in my opinion a very good upgrade if your system will tolerate the specs,it took my vista experience from a 4.8 to a 5.9,my old card was a radeon hd2600pcie 512mb memory,it does run a little
from www.amazon.com
this is a really good product best bang for the buck wicked performance and beatiful graphics.

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Positives: Good Affordability, Fast, Excellent Performance, Installed Memory: 512 MB

MSI Geforce 9400GT

$67.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
as it is not a strong gaming card the power consumption is much less.
from BARishel, www.newegg.com
budget pc system that wanted to be able play games so this card fit it to a t.
from nickotron, www.newegg.com
a great little card - amazing technology for the money ($35 open box), and impressed with the nvidia sw that came with it too - tv colour optimization, etc.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
as for speed, it's good enough to run most games.
from rogue, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: have not tried any hard-core 3d gaming/rendering with this card, since i'm running less than the recommended power...

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Positives: Good Affordability, Easy To Install, Quiet Operation, Installed Memory: 512 MB

PNY VCG98GTEE5XPB 9800 GT

$133.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
I've had this card for over a month now and have yet to experience any problems with it.
from www.amazon.com
The card is perfect for computers that can't supply the 500W minimum of most high performance cards.
from www.amazon.com
Mine died after working for about 10 minutes.
from www.amazon.com
Runs circles around my BFG 8600GT OC.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
Pros: "Error 13/14 in my main video game and 3d modeling apps for a full year, even after I called and support wasn't helpful."I just wanted to make a comment on that ludicrous review.

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Positives: Installed Memory: 512 MB, Graphic Processor: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT, Display Interface: DVI-I (dual link) x 2, Card Interface: PCI Express

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Best Graphics Cards Overall

EVGA 017-P3-1295-AR CO-OP Edition GeForce GTX 295

SPARKLE Computer GeForce 9800GTX

EVGA 02G-P3-1185-AR GeForce GTX 285 2GB 512-bit

Pine Technology XFX GX275XAHFF GeForce GTX 275

PNY VCGGTX260CXPB XLR8 260 Core 216 896MB DVI +

EVGA 896-P3-1171-AR GeForce GTX 275 Superclocked

EVGA 896-P3-1170-AR GeForce GTX 275 896MB GDDR3

Sapphire HD4870

EVGA 512-P3-1150-TR GeForce GTS 250

Pine Technology XFX RADEON HD 4890 XT

SAPPHIRE 100259L RADEON HD 4870

EVGA 896-P3-1255-AR GeForce GTX260 Core 216 896MB DDR3 PCI-Express 2.0

Gigabyte RADEON HD 4550

SAPPHIRE 100265HDMI RADEON HD 4830

SAPPHIRE 100245HDMI RADEON HD 4850

Pine Technology XFX GeForce GTS 250 DDR3 PCIE 738/2.2Ghz

Zotac GeForce 9800GT Amp Edition DDR3 PCI-Express 2DVI/HDCP ZT98GES5PFCP

VisionTek RADEON HD 4850

MSI Geforce 9400GT

PNY VCG98GTEE5XPB 9800 GT

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