Best Value in a Vid Card?
Howdy,
I dont know what the hell is going on with my system but I think my video "Hiccup" problem and the fact that when rebooting my PC, I have to make 2 or 3 attempts to spin up without sliding into safe mode, MIGHT be pointing to a hardware problem....although the diagnostic tool HP stuck on this PC tells me everything is running just fine. It happened after I upgraded the Nvidia driver...and even rolling back the driver didnt get rid of the problem. 
Anyway.....Im thinking I need to do some shopping for a vid card and would like to hear what other gamers think is a decent vid card.
Id like to stay with the Nvidia chip set so you ATI people need not apply. Im looking for;
AGP ( Hate to be obvious but some PC's only have PCI slots )
Min of 128m of ram
Somewhere under $200
I also dabble in digital video editing so Id like to take a look at a card with analog video out as a minimum, possibly anaolog vid input as well.
Was looking at this ( XFX GeForce FX 5700 )
Thanks for your suggestions 
Re: Best Value in a Vid Card?
I don't mean to sound catty but it sounds like you already know what you want. Just buy me two and be done with it.
I have a GeForce FX 5200 (Lite) and an ATI Radeon 9600 (Lite). Each have 128MB RAM. Each have both VGA and DVI out. Each came with a DVI<->VGA adapter. Each have Svideo out. At least one has A/V out. Other than I had some stability problems with the Nvidia under Linux until I sorted out some driver updates and some stability problems with the ATI under windows until I sorted out some driver updates... I can't tell the difference except that the ATI was a few $$ cheaper.
I used to Nolf2 an an GeForce 440 (there's an MX in there somewhere) and it was fine but it doesn't meet your RAM requirement.
If you want to play FarCry (ever) I hear it wants 256MB on the Vid Card. One thing to watch for is that the "Lite" versions of the cards from both vendors use non-DDR RAM. So, if you must squeeze every possible frame out of each ounce of kit per second, don't get the Lite versions.
Re:Best Value in a Vid Card?
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