Video Card Recommendation

I'm sure you guys get a ton of these type of threads and so I apologize in advance, but I'm extremely confused and could really use some help.



I'm building a budget PC (around $400) and I'm looking into a graphics card to be around $100 or so. I'd like to get a nice one, but I'm not really sure what I want. Haha. I'm NOT a gamer at all...as in...nada. I do a ton of video encoding though, and I will be using Photoshop, Illustrator, and doing a lot of video editing. Having the Aero Visual Effects of Vista would be nice too.



What would be a good card for me? Again, I'm not a gamer, but I thought that I would still need a nice card because I use some pretty high-graphical programs.



Thanks! Any comments are welcome!

This video card should be acceptable for the work you want to do on it.

Radeon x1650 pro PCIe.

yeah you can get an old x800 or 7900 chipset for under 100



You could just get a PCI video card, dont even need the express slot



IF you dont game at all go with this

www.newegg.com then search for

3D Fuzion 3DFR55256P GeForce FX 5500 256MB 128-bit DDR PCI Video Card - Retail

I was looking at a Foxconn 7900GS. It's for $120, but I really REALLY liked the 256-bit interface and that caught my eye. How would that card perform?



Like I said, I'm not a gamer and so it's not all that important, but I still want a nice overall graphics card for Video Editing, and Picture Editing.

do your motherboard have a pci-E slot

If it does, cards great if your nto a gamer.. if you are a gamer.. its cun run games decent... I have two of them(7900 GS chipset)

Hey! don't worry about the question, we're here to help anyways

And about the card, I would definitely 100%, positively recommend you the GeForce 7600GT, heres a link to two good deals on Newegg:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150185

-or-

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130062

The 7600GT are excellent cards for the price and I'm sure you'd be able to run Vista Aero Visual with no problems. I own one, what more can I say! Lol

Wow. Thanks for everything, guys! Ramodkk, that 7600GT really looks like a promising card. Thanks for all your help!

You're welcome