This nVidia nine Series card offers great performance at a great price. Hovering at around 115 dollars, this graphics card is one of the best midrange cards on the market, and is easily affordable.
As the development of software, and games in particular progresses, you will often find the need for better components in your computer system, as the demand for greater quality graphics and processing speed rises as well. While more serious gamers will want top tier cards for their demands, most everybody else can do quite well with a midranged card. While there are really only two companies to choose from, those being ATI, and nVidia, generally nVidia’s GeForce series outperforms most equivalent ATI Radeon cards.
In gameplay as well as casual use, such as viewing HD movies, and importing/exporting/rendering video, the card performed solidly. If you compare it to the older 8800 GT, most aspects of the archietecture are the same, with performance largely the same as well. The only real differences are a smaller die size and manufacturing process, allowing for smaller silicon semiconductor pathways. This both increases speed and reliability while at the same time reducing the cost to manufacture, so that is a major edge financially.
As nVidia still does have to compete against ATI in price, the 9800 GTs are less expensive than were the 8800 GTs, going for about 115 dollars on sites such as NewEgg and TigerDirect, depending on which board manufacturer you buy from (EVGA, XTX, PNY). With most people’s budgets for a graphics card hovering from 100 to 200 dollars, the 9800 GT is easily within range, and equiped with Microsoft’s DirectX 10, is able to play practically any game on the market as of the time of writing.
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