Value Graphics Cards

On our PC building roadmap, we already got computer case, motherboard, CPU, memory and hard drive (refer to my previous articles if you haven't seen them yet). What's the next? I think its graphics card. The price of graphics card varies from hundred dollars to thousand dollars. If you're a heavy gamer, you may need to consider some high-performance graphics cards. If you're just a normal office user, a normal graphics card may be good enough.

There are two major graphics card vendors in the world - nVidia and ATI. No matter who makes the card, the core technology will be from these two vendors. By the way, ATI will be bought by AMD soon. Today, I'll introduce two value graphics cards made by Gigabyte (one of the best video card makers, I believe).

Gigabyte GV-NX66256DP Graphics Accelerator

• Powered by NVIDIA GeForce 6600 VPU
• Supports NVIDIA SLI Technology
• Supports PCI Express and 8 pipelines
• Microsoft DirectX 9.0C and OpenGL 1.5 support
• Integrated with 256MB DDR memory and 128-bit memory interface
• Features DVI-I / D-sub / TV-OUT
• Supports HDTV function and HDTV cable enclosed
• Unique Silent-Pipe design
• GIGABYTE's Turbo Force Edition guarantee

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Gigabyte GV-RX16T256V-RH Graphics Accelerator

• Powered by ATI Radeon X1600 XT VPU
• Supports PCI Express and 12 pipelines
• Microsoft DirectX 9.0C and OpenGL 2.0 support
• Integrated with the industry's best 256MB GDDR3 memory and 128-bit memory interface
• Features Dual DVI-I / D-sub(by adapter) / TV-OUT
• Supports HDTV function and HDTV cable enclosed
• Supports VIVO function for video editing
• Unique Silent-Pipe II design

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