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I figured that I would put this in the gaming section so I could get the opinion for gamers. Which brand of video cards is best and could you name the model please?

ATI

INVIDEA

OTHER

Right now the best card (the fastest one and DX10 ready) is the Nvidia Geforce 8800GTX.

And the best bang for ur buck card is the Geforce 8800GTS 320MB.

Now if only ATI would release the R600 right now....

I personally like ATI more then nVidia, ATI's cards are cheap in price but are very powerful

The R600 is going to be way stronger then the 8800 anyways

Also wolf the 8800GTS 320mb isnt that good, get the 8800GTX 768mb

But the 8800GTX is very expensive, and the 8800GTS is way cheaper, and still offers excellent performance (faster than a X1950XTX)

Also, you need to have an extremely powerful CPU to use its potential.

If you are asking which company makes the fastest graphics card, TimeParadoX and wolfram have already addressed that. Both companies make good cards in various price ranges, however. If you are asking about a card in a lower-than-top-of-the-line category, name your budget and we can give you some recommendations for good cards. Perhaps that is what you are really asking.

Do your own research for your own specs and what meets your budget and preference. 8800GTX SLI seems to be the most expensive and i think you do pay for what you buy. NVIDIA especially that they support stuff for intel now core 2 duo and not just ATI for AMD processors, i would prefer!

Hey yeah, I am thinking about setting my budget around $200 for an awesome card.

HERE is an awesome card

I run a AGP Geforce FX5200, cheap $90 card. It runs F.E.A.R., Battlefield 2 all expansions, Half Life 2, Counterstrike:Source, Quake 4, and World of Warcraft all smoothly.

I've always been a fan of Nvidia. I suggest you go with it.

The one WolfRam linked is probably the best card in DX9, I got Cross-Fire of them with 3gig RAM and run ALL games maxed with 90-100fps! Muahahah!

www.tomshardware.com just posted their new recommendations on video cards. It has some very good advice and reviews.

I need a card that willl be able to run Company of Heroes and Flight Simulator X.

Thanks People! keep making suggestions!

The X1950XT will play them very well, no doubt about that

Yeah, for how much?

and also what CATALYST does it have?

Umm, the price for the X1950XT is in the link in wolfram's post, post #8.
Eh? What do you mean by that?

He probably means what Catalyst ( CCC.exe ) it has, it's the current version since it's a pretty new card, Think it came out last year or so...

I'd go with Nvidia because:
a) I have an ATI and it sucks. Games freeze and run slowly, and many games published after 2003 or 04 won't run at all, saying the video card is the culprit.
b) Nvidia actually collaborates with game developers (or so I'm told)
c) Nvidia has a cooler name .

The majority of people subscribed to this forum prefer nVidia about 75 percent of the time.
But there is about a 15 percent failure rate in both ATI and nVidia cards within the first year, in our experience. We do not find that the ATI fails earlier or more frequently than the NVidia.
The NVidia "gamer" video graphics cards do seem to hold up better.
Interesting to me, the failure rate is higher on the expensive video graphics cards we see in our shop, than to those under $60. Also, certain models fail much more often... perhaps due to defects in manufacturing or components.

By "fail", do you mean the hardware fails to function, or to do its job properly?
Oh, and who's "we"?