http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/Channel8/images/feedimage.pnghttp://channel8.msdn.com/Tags/graphics+card/graphics cardhttp://channel8.msdn.com/Tags/graphics+card/en-usMon, 31 Dec 2007 23:48:22 GMTMon, 31 Dec 2007 23:48:22 GMTEvNet (EvNet, Version=1.0.3229.2473, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null)<img src="http://channel8.msdn.com/Link/a57847cb-4ef9-4045-8749-516512608ba1/" border="0" /><p>Happy new year friends and enemies (wait, do I have any enemies??)...&nbsp; It's time to scoot along to our next step in building our PC.&nbsp; It's a new year so let's start off with a whopper: the Graphics Card!<br /><br />If you're new to this discussion, check out how we've done so far with our <a href="http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/Max-Builds-a-PC-Series-Part-I-The-Case/">case</a>, <a href="http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/Max-Builds-a-PC-Series-Part-II-The-CPU/">CPU</a>, <a href="http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/Max-Builds-a-PC-Series-Part-III-The-Motherboard/">motherboard</a>, <a href="http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/Max-Builds-a-PC-Series-Part-V-Hard-Disk/">hard disk</a>, and <a href="http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/Max-Builds-a-PC-Series-Part-IV-RAM/">RAM</a>.&nbsp; If you're well aware of our progress, then jump into the comments and have at it, big dog.<br /><br />This is going to be one tough decision so let's get right down to the pointers:<br /></p> <ol> <li>The two big players in this game are ATi and nVidia</li> <li>Since we're getting an X38 motherboard, I'd recommend we go PCIe 2.0 for the graphics card</li> <li>I'm leaning towards a single card, not two, or three, or if some of you had their way... 4</li> <li>What's more important: game performance or HD video and media center capabilities?</li> <li>What extra features do you think we should go for?&nbsp; DirectX 10.1?&nbsp; HDCP capable?</li></ol> <p>There's so much to think about with this one... so go nuts.</p><img src="http://channel8.msdn.com/895/WebViewBug.aspx?EVT=0" height="1" width="1" alt="" />http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/Max-Builds-a-PC-Series-Part-VI-The-Graphics-Card/http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/Max-Builds-a-PC-Series-Part-VI-The-Graphics-Card/Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:51:00 GMThttp://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/Max-Builds-a-PC-Series-Part-VI-The-Graphics-Card/2644http://channel8.msdn.com/895/WebViewBug.aspx?EVT=0Happy new year friends and enemies (wait, do I have any enemies??)... It's time to scoot along to our next step in building our PC. It's a new year so let's start off with a whopper: the Graphics Card!<br /><br />If you're new to this discussion, check out how we've done so far with our <a href="http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/Max-Builds-a-PC-Series-Part-I-The-Case/">case</a>, <a href="http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/Max-Builds-a-PC-Series-Part-II-The-CPU/">CPU</a>, <a href="http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/Max-Builds-a-PC-Series-Part-III-The-Motherboard/">motherboard</a>, <a href="http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/Max-Builds-a-PC-Series-Part-V-Hard-Disk/" target="_blank">hard disk</a>, and <a href="http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/Max-Builds-a-PC-Series-Part-IV-RAM/">RAM</a>. If you're well aware of our progress, then jump into the comments and have at it, big dog.....<br /><br /><br />Max28http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/Max-Builds-a-PC-Series-Part-VI-The-Graphics-Card/RSS/http://channel8.msdn.com/895/Trackback.aspxgraphics cardmax builds a pc series