Best Video Cards for Holidays 2007

The 8800 GT is the latest video card from NVIDIA and the PNY 8800 GT I reviewed here was the first of these new cards to come across my desk. This card has just about everything a game needs at a price that will fit most budgets. The card performs exceptionally well and is currently one of the best bangs for your buck in the video card market.

If you are looking for an NVIDIA 8800 GTS 320MB graphics card, the XFX Fatal1ty version is simply the fastest 8800 GTS 320MB graphics card to be had. The levels of performance XFX has achieved with the Fatal1ty version of this graphics card are very impressive and the card is priced in the middle of the graphics card range putting the price tag in the area where many gamers shop.

If the gamer on your list prefers ATI products over NVIDIA, one of the best performance ATI cards is the HD 2900 XT. This video card has onboard sound that allows both sound and video to be sent over the HDMI cable to your PC display or HDTV. The cards performs well, but is out performed by similarly priced and sometimes lower priced NVIDIA graphics cards.

The current king of performance from NVIDIA is the 8800 Ultra and the fastest 8800 Ultra out there is the XXX edition from XFX. This card has more power than many other cards when paired together in SLI. ATI currently has no video card that can match the performance of the 8800 Ultra XXX. If your budget is big enough for the best graphics card around, the XFX 8800 Ultra XXX is the card you want to buy.

The NVIDIA 8800 GTX has been around for a while now, but is still one of the best performing graphics cards on the market. The fastest 8800 GTX that I have tested was the XFX 8800 GTX XXX overclocked version. This card is second in performance only to the overclocked 8800 Ultra XXX from XFX. The GTX XXX outperforms most stock clocked 8800 Ultra graphics cards for less money.