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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 1319021" data-attributes="member: 8704">Yea you need to make sure you get exactly what you are wanting when you get one (XT is from ATI Radeon cards, the Radeon XT cards are top of the line stuff, the 9800XT is the fatest video card out there right now). A card labled XT, Pro or Ultra is a much better card than one without and extra label. A lot of times you will find a good price on a card because it's the plain one not the Ultra or Pro one.  I wouldn't get a GeForce 4 card just due to the fact that it is 2 year old technology, why pay good money for something that is out of date already, it's a DirectX 8 card, the new ones are DirectX 9 cards (not to say it isn't a very good video card). Other than that go with the best you can afford 5600 or 9600, they are so close you would need to be a computer wiz to tell a performance difference. Another thing to keep in mind is that this spring should see the introduction of all new video cards from ATI and Nvidia, these cards are 4 or 5 months from being the old models (ie the price should drop).</blockquote>