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I have been looking for a really nice video card to play some more newer games in HIGH quality, such as Spider-man 3, or Lost-Planet. Unfortunatly, I don't know what video card to get. So i did a comparison between ATI cards and NVIDIA cards...

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NVIDIA
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The NVIDIA Geforce8 Series has the following features:

    * Full support for both Microsoft® DirectX 10 and DirectX 9 for unparalleled levels of graphics realism and performance
    * NVIDIA PureVideo™ HD2 technology provides unsurpassed Blu-ray and HD DVD movie picture quality
    * NVIDIA 8 Series graphics processors are essential for accelerating the best Microsoft® Windows Vista™ experience

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ATI Radeon
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The new ATI Radeon HD™ 2000 series is a top-to-bottom line of 10 discrete graphics processors (GPUs) for both desktop and mobile platforms. This family of GPUs delivers The Ultimate Visual Experience™ through immersive HD gaming with DirectX® 10 and HD media playback.

The series boasts many firsts for the graphics industry, including a powerful second-generation Unified Shader Architecture (USA), a 512-bit memory bus designed for full performance high dynamic range (HDR) rendering, and new Unified Video Decoder (UVD) technology for high-fidelity HD media playback.* The mid-range and entry-level GPUs are the first graphics products in the industry to use an energy-efficient 65 nm process technology to achieve silent, passive cooling and lower power consumption.
 
ATI Radeon HD 2900 Series:

        * Next-generation unified shader engine with 320 unified stream processors
        * 512-bit memory interface
        * Easy CrossFire™ scalability
        * HDMI with 5.1 surround sound audio
        * DirectX® 10 support

ATI Radeon HD 2600 Series:

        * Hardware processed 1080p video playback of Blu-ray™ and HD DVDs
        * Plug-n-play CrossFire™ upgradeability
        * HDMI with 5.1 surround sound audio
        * DirectX® 10 support

Remarkable Gaming Performance for DirectX® 10
Unleash the HD visual effects within Windows Vista and DirectX 10. Plug-n-play CrossFire™ upgradeability makes it easy to scale up graphics performance to boost the most demanding games; and built-in multi-channel 5.1 surround audio over HDMI establishes a new level of entertainment designed for tech savvy gamers.

ATI Radeon HD 2400 Series:

        * Hardware based H.264/VC-1 decoding of Blu-ray™ and HD DVDs
        * HDMI with 5.1 surround sound audio
        * DirectX® 10 support
        * Up to twice the performance of integrated graphics

HD Gaming with DirectX® 10
Enjoy a dramatic high-definition gaming experience with Windows Vista at up to twice the performance of integrated graphics. Enhance your game play and experience sharper images, more textures, and the improved lighting effects that create lifelike interactivity and immersive realism enabled by DirectX 10 support.

ATI Avivo™ HD Video & Media
Combine advanced HD video processing with cool, quiet, and energy efficient operation that will delight a home theater enthusiast. ATI Avivo™ HD technology provides hardware based H.264/VC-1 decoding of Blu-ray and HD DVD movies and built-in 5.1 surround audio designed for an easy HDMI connection to big-screen TVs.

Since I technically don't need a card made especially for Windows Visa <- 

I will take a ATI Radeon X1650 Pro 512MB AGP <-