What is the best Nvidia video card to get for a pentium 4 computer for playing games and mabye editing video

try this link
http://www.hothardware.com/viewartic...leid=578&cid=2 hth

This is a very good graphics card for $150.

Nvidia, see here.

What is the best video card for video editing?

Theres no "best" card, its the one that suits your needs.

I like the GeForce 5700, but the GeForce 5200 Ultra is a good low range card.

It depends on what you want to use the card for. The only things that tax current cards are games or CAD/CAM type stuff. For games, a Geforce 6600GT is probably about the best in your budget. For CAD/CAM get one based on the Quadro chipset.

For video editing, if you are using DV then it all comes in via firewaire and the GFX card makes little difference (except for the very latest software packages that can make use of a 3D GPU to speed up rendering times). Analogue video has to come in via a seperate capture card or a GFX card with these capabilities buiult in. I only know of the ATI AIW series that do it but I'm sure nVidia have a range too.

Looks like this could be the one you want:

Pine XFX GeForce FX5200 (Personal Cinema Edition) AGP 4x/8x 256-bit DDR 128Mb with Audio/Video-in & Out, TV-Out & DVi / PVR / 4-Pixel/clock rendering / Digital Vibration Control / 400Mhz RamDac / 63m Ver/Sec @ 250MHz Dual-clocked / AV Breakout Box / USB RF Receiver / Direct-X 9, Vertex Shader 2.0+ & Open GL 1.4 supp / Nvidia NVDVD Multimedia software, WinDVR, DVD Movie factory, Ulead videoStudio, Nvidia Personal Cinema PAL/NTSC

The equivalent of $160 at my favourite UK supplier, probably a little cheaper in the US. The card is manufactured by Pine, which is a pretty cheap brand, but it's built on the GeForce FX5200 chipset and has LOADS of connection options

thanks for all your help, I decided to go with the GeForceFX 5700 OC made by BFG not the greatest card but it is in my price range and works fine for what I am doing

Nice

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