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Affordable Modern Graphics Cards

Posted by michael on from the save-a-pixel-or-two dept.

EconolineCrush writes "If graphics cards that cost more than a mortgage payment make your wallet quiver, it's worth checking out ATI's Radeon X700 and NVIDIA's GeForce 6600 series. Both are based on cut down versions of latest and greatest graphics chips, but at under $200, they sell for a fraction of the price of high-end cards. What's more, these $200 wonders outperform last year's $500 cards, sometimes by embarrassingly large margins. The Tech Report has in-depth reviews of both the GeForce 6600GT and Radeon X700 XT if you're in the market for a next-gen graphics card that's a little more affordable."

5 of 484 comments (clear)

  1. Ask your McBoss. by glrotate · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    For a McRaise. High-end is about $500 so $200 is midrange. If you can't afford it, then sucks2bu.

    1. Re:Ask your McBoss. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Actually, high-end is closer to $3,000. If you didn't know that, it's obviously because you're a lower-class monkey, who thinks his $70,000/year salary is special.

  2. Re:A metaphor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Caddilacs are shit, and so is your metaphor. Fuck you.

  3. Re:A mortgage payment!!!???? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Maybe you should smarten the fuck up and move out of Toronto. $880? You're on crack to pay that. I don't pay half that a month. lol. What a dolt.

  4. Re:I don't know what they are thinking. by drinkypoo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You can get a whole PC capable of playing today's games, except for having a shitty graphics card, for $450. Look on geeks.com sometime. By this standard, $450 is too much to spend on a video card unless you will spend half the time you use your computer rendering 3d graphics.

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