Which is the best video card?

[sshapiro63]

This is from a posting a did several months ago. I still believe the FX 5200 card provides the best Svideo out that I have seen.

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Hey Folks,

I have been using various ATI cards for a couple of years for output to a standard definition TV set. The one issue with my current ATI card (Radeon 9000) is that it is not able to fill my TV screen completely with the output adjustments; always leaves a little border at the bottom.

Yesterday, I picked up an Nvidia FX 5200 based board and the Svideo output is much better than the ATI. Card is made by EVGA.Com and is fanless (quiet). The latest Nvidia drivers include a very nice adjustment feature that allows you adjust the Svideo output in fine steps to fill the screen edge to edge, or overscan if you like.

The output quality is top notch too. Much better color matching than my ATI card. About the only adjustment I had to make was to turn the saturation down from the 100% default level to about 70%.

I compared the output to my Xcard too. The Nvidia output seems just as good as the Xcard, although I have not tested it completely yet.