Can you recommend a video card?

[TERRIBLETOM]

I am looking to purchase a new video card, I don't play a lot of video games but I do like a high quality picture, any suggestions...

[sbp]

Perhaps the Radeon 9000 which is inexpensive and has great image quality.

[GraingerGuy]

Or even a Radeon 9500?

Or maybe a Radeon 9100 aka Radeon 8500.

[sbp]

Radeon 9500 is ~$150 and may be out of his price range.

Yeah a Radeon 8500 {LE} and GeForce4 MX460 will do also.

Its not that Nvidia videocards have bad image quality. But generally ATI cards are sharper in high resolutions like 1600x1200.

[bachviet]

If you have $$$, get the R9500Pro. If not, go for the R8500LE or whatever ATI decides to replace it with (R9100)!

[TERRIBLETOM]

My brother was telling me that the 8500 soon to be 9100 is a little faster than the 9000. Has anyone read this?

[GraingerGuy]

http://www.gotapex.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=54875&highlight=Radeon

Here's a thread about it.

[ski]

I ordered a Radeon 9500Pro the other day and it gets in tomorrow... as a dual monitor user, I'll post back how it does when all's said and done. I GUESS I could play some games on this card as well ^_^ it beats out the GF4 Ti4600 in all tests involving Anti-Aliasing and Anthroscopic Filtering. Money in the bank for $199 shipped retail :D

This will be my first venture with ATi, so hopefully it's all true about their image quality.

[blueindian]

i got a visiontek xtasy everything a while back. i dig it. has an external box that i can hook up anything to, like my mini dv cam. got the cable running right into it, i'm watching comedy central i type this. has PVR functionality too.