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Ok, I got another Graphics Card deal here, actually a couple of deals. I think it is a great deal for any kind of gamer. The first one is Gigabyte GeForce 8800GT 512MB Graphics card. A great graphics card to play any games that is currently on the market. Gigabyte GeForce 8800GT 512MB Graphics card will run any game. Gigabyte GeForce 8800GT Graphics Card has been over clocked at 700MHz for fast performance. Gigabyte GeForce 8800GT 512MB PCIe Graphics Card can be bought for $140 at Newegg.com after $40 Mail-in-Rebate. You will get a Neverwinter Nights II PC game for free with the purchase of Gigabyte GeForce 8800GT Graphics Card. Shipping cost for this Gigabyte GeForce 8800GT Graphics Card is free.

The second deal is for XFX GeForce 8800GT 512MB Zalman Edition Graphics Card. XFX GeForce 8800GT 512MB Zalman Edition Graphics Card costs $145 at TigerDirect after $30 Mail-in-Rebate (Two rebates per person). XFX GeForce 8800GT 512MB Zalman Edition Graphics Card has the world’s first DirectX 10 GPU and uses a powerful unified architecture bringing life like graphics to your games. Not the best graphics card by any means but it packs a punch for the price it is sold for. XFX GeForce 8800GT 512MB Zalman Edition Graphics Card comes with a Zalman cooler at no extra cost. Here are some of the specifications for XFX GeForce 8800GT 512MB Zalman Edition Graphics Card:

• Has a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT GPU
• RoHS Compliant, HDCP Enabled, HDTV Ready, SLI Ready, OpenGL 2.0, DirectX 10, PCI Express 2.0, Vista Certified
• 512MB of DDR3 Video Ram
• Dual DVI (Dual Link), HDTV/S-Video Connectors
• Resolution of up to 2560 x 1600 (Digital)

This XFX GeForce 8800GT 512MB Zalman Edition Graphics Card also supports dual monitors if you ever want to use two. I will keep post on this blog if any other good deal comes along.

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This is another good deal on a Graphics Card. I just wrote a discount graphics card post yesterday and I found this one today. This deal is available at Compusa. EVGA Geforce 9800GTX PCI-Express Graphics Card is priced at $270 at compusa. You can get even further discount if you use a paypal account to pay for it. Using a paypal account to purchase the EVGA Geforce 9800GTX PCI-Express Graphics Card will drop the price down to $250. The $20 paypal discount offer can be applied on any item on Compusa provided the product costs is atleast $200.

Well back to the EVGA Geforce 9800GTX PCI-Express Graphics Card. This NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX based Graphics card provides gamers with lifelike graphics at the same time, providing optimal power management with the use of HybridPower technology. When the graphics card is not in use, it shuts down which in turn lowers the power consumption and noise.

Here are some of the specifications and features that are available in a EVGA Geforce 9800GTX PCI Express Graphics Card.

• NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX Graphics Processing Unit
• 675 MHz processor clock frequency
• 512MB of Video Ram with a memory bandwidth of 70.4GB/sec which runs at 2200 MHz.
• 256-bit GDDR3 memory interface
• Has a maximum resolution of 2560 x 1600 (Digital)
• PCI Express 2.0
• Supports Multiple monitors
• Supports Microsoft DirectX 10 & Shader Model 4.0, OpenGL 2.1
• NVIDIA SLI (Scalable Link Interface)
• NVIDIA HybridPower
• NVIDIA Unified Architecture
• NVIDIA Lumenex Engine
• NVIDIA Quantum Effects Technology and a whole lot more technologies.

EVGA Geforce 9800GTX Graphics Card specs are a lot similar to 8800GTX but EVGA Geforce 9800GTX Graphics Card runs a lot cooler. Because EVGA Geforce 9800GTX Graphics Card uses a PCI express 2.0, it is about 10% faster than even 8800Ultra. This is the graphics card to go for if you are looking a Tri-SLI (three graphics card) as it costs a lot less than other high end graphics cards. 9800GTX even very gets close to 9800GX2 specs which is a much more expensive card (around $500). EVGA Geforce 9800GTX Graphics Card provides awesome performance in this price range.

I wish I could have EVGA Geforce 9800GTX PCI-Express Graphics Card. It has a huge amount of Video Ram and could run any games that are on the market right now. $250 is a bit off my budget for a graphics card but I think some hardcore gamer would appreciate the EVGA Geforce 9800GTX PCI-Express Video Card for $250.

Two good deals at the same time. If you are looking for some quality Graphics card for your PC, this is one of the best deals you will ever find. This post includes two different deals on two different Graphics Card which should be perfect for any kind of budget. Here is the first and the cheapest one on offer.

Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2600XT at Buy.com can be purchases at just $30 after rebates. New Google Checkout users can get an additional $10 discount which drops the price down to $20. If you have received a $25 coupon for Google Checkout, you can get Diamond Viper Radeon 256MB Graphics Card for just $5. I have published a post a deal on Diamond Viper ATI Radeon X1650 PRO Graphics Card before but this a lot better deal that that one. Here are some of the specifications for Diamond Viper Radeon Graphics Card. (BTW shipping is free)

• Radeon 2600 XT GPU, 800 MHZ Clock Frequency
• 256MB of Video Ram which has 128-bit GDDR3 memory interface
• Native PCI Express x16 bus interface
• Supports Microsoft DirectX 10 & Shader Model 4.0, OpenGL 2.0

This deal includes two products, a XFX GeForce 8800GT 512MB PCI Express Graphics Card as well as Company of Heroes Game for $150. This deal is offered by Newegg. Buy a XFX GeForce 8800GT 512MB PCI Express Graphics Card and get a Company of Heroes game for free (while supplies last). The price is dropped to $150 for XFX GeForce 8800GT 512MB PCI Express Video Card after a $30 mail-in-rebate. Here are some of the specifications for XFX GeForce 8800GT Graphics Card.

• Nvidia GeForce 8800GT GPU, 600MHz Clock Frequency
• 512MB Video Ram which has 256-bit GDDR3 memory interface
• Supports Microsoft DirectX 10, OpenGL 2.0
• Maximum Resolution of 2560 x 1600
• 2 DVI port and 1 HDTV Out port
• PCI Express 2.0 x16 interface

I wish I had a PCI Express slot. I would have surely bought the XFX GeForce 8800GT Graphics Card for my PC. It is quite hard playing games on my Laptop which has a lot better Graphics Card than my desktop and can’t run most games on it because of that.

Buy.com has a Diamond Viper ATI Radeon X1650 PRO 600MHz - 512MB GDDR2 SDRAM PCI Express Graphics card for just $40 after $20 mail in rebate. Diamond Viper ATI Radeon X1650 PRO 600MHz 512MB GDDR2 SDRAM PCI Express Graphics Card is not available for online purchase at Buy.com right now but Walmart has on but the price is a bit higher than at Buy.com. At walmart, Diamond Viper ATI Radeon X1650 PRO Graphics card would set you back $79.97. It’s in stock at Walmart but price is a bit expensive compared to buy.com . Right now, Diamond Viper ATI Radeon X1650 PRO Graphics Card is not available at buy.com but you might wanna check it at buy.com at a later time. This offer at buy.com lasts till 31st of January 2008. At $40 I would say its a great deal. Diamond Viper ATI Radeon X1650 PRO PCI Express Graphics Card has:

• Standard Memory of 512MB
• 2 x DVI Dual Link DVI, 1 x TV Out ports
• Processor Speed of 600MHz
• Multi-GPU technology called Crossfire
• Can support upto 2 monitors at the same time

Check back at buy.com, I am sure it will be available in a couple of days. Diamond Viper ATI Radeon X1650 PRO Graphics Card with 512MB ram for just $40 is a must buy offer (specially for gamers). It should run all the latest games. Even my NVidia GSM Graphics card with just 128MB ram runs almost all games.

The most anticipated Radeon R600 has finally been announced by ATI. The best known company for manufacturing the graphic cards, ATI, has developed this Graphics Processing Unit as member of Radeon HD 2000 series and the FireGL 2007 series video cards. The R600 is the very first GPU developed by ATI and is the second generation GPU with unified shader design. ATI has included HDMI interface with 5.1 audio playback supports in this processor and comes with Unified Video Decoder for hardware decoding for MPEG2, MPEG4 and VC-1 video streams.

This GPU is based on XENOS GPU and supports Direct3D 10’s Shader Model 4.0 along with OpenGL 2.0. The graphics processors comes with programmable tessellation units which allows simple, low-polygon model to be increased dramatically in polygon density in real-time with minimized performance loss. Fitted with 4 texture units, this processor is capable of filtering FP16 textures in full speed and is also capable of filtering trilinear and anisotropic texture formats. The meritorious inclusion in this model against the previous one are custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) mode which calculates the final color and anti-alias the image by shader processing. This model supports up to 8× multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) using programmable sample grids

In 1985, four Chinese immigrants named Pak Hun Lau, Benny Lau, Lee Tia Lau and Kwok Yuen Ho combined formed a organisation to provide the world with technologies (mainly graphics related equipments) required for the PC’s which was named as Array Technologies Incorporated (ATI). They produced Graphics Processing Units, Motherboard chipset and Video display card (for IBM). Initially they marketed the 2D graphics chips to companies like Commodore. Till early 90s, they manufactured various 2D GUI accelerator cards that primarily targeted the Microsoft platforms. Later from May of 1991, they came in market with other chipsets like Mach8 (ATI’s first Windows accelerator product), Mach32 and Mach64.The EGA wonder and VGA wonder of 1987 released to PC market had also surpassed the IBM’s EGA and VGA.

With the Technological sophistication, the most wanted 3D acceleration hit the market in the middle 90s. The ATI developed 3D rage which is based heavily upon the Mach 64 but with limited 3D acceleration. In 1996, they came up with All-in-Wonder product series which is their 2^nd generation 3D Rage Ii which featured 3D acceleration. Enhancing its product, it established in the generation of 3D graphics by commercializing Radeon Line of Graphics products which supported DirectX 7 through DirectX 10. Moreover GPU’s, the ATI also designs embedded versions for laptops (called “Mobility Radeon”), PDA’s and Mobile phones(”Imageon”), integrated motherboards (”Radeon IGP”), Set top boxes (”Xilleon”) and other technology-based market segments.

In 2006, the ATI was combined with another company AMD which was later combinely named Graphics Products Group. ATI manufactured graphics chipsets till July of 2006.