{"id":253,"date":"2005-08-01T20:52:38","date_gmt":"2005-08-01T20:52:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-08-01T20:52:38","modified_gmt":"2005-08-01T20:52:38","slug":"video-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/08\/01\/video-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/article2\/0,1697,1780524,00.asp\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/article2\/0,1697,1780524,00.asp', 'video card comparison');\">video card comparison<\/a> at ExtremeTech that does a good job discussing the relative performance of all the available products except the 7800GTX.  The prices are a little dated, but the information is still valid.  Currently, I\u2019d say that the best value can be found at the NVidia 6800GT level.  I recently jumped off of the ATI bandwagon (more about that in a later upgrade article), but the X850 XT seems to be price sensitive at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>The price of the PCIe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leadtek.com\/3d_graphic\/winfast_px6800_gttdh_1.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.leadtek.com\/3d_graphic\/winfast_px6800_gttdh_1.html', 'Leadtech WinFast PX6800GT');\">Leadtech WinFast PX6800GT<\/a> dropped $40 in less than seven days.  There are even better deals for AGP video cards.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a nice video card comparison at ExtremeTech that does a good job discussing the relative performance of all the available products except the 7800GTX. The prices are a little dated, but the information is still valid. Currently, I\u2019d say that the best value can be found at the NVidia 6800GT level. I recently jumped &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/08\/01\/video-cards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video Cards<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}