Price: $235+ street

Creative's claim to fame has always been their sound cards, but they have also gained a reputation for making good video cards. The 3D Blaster Annihilator 2, a GeForce2 GTS, is their entry into the high-end video card market. It is a bare bones card with a tiny bundle and no TV-out and yet it goes for an average price.

Creative 3D Blaster Annihilator 2

• 200MHz GeForce2 GTS core
• 800 million pixels per second
• 1600 million texels per second
• Hardware transformation and lighting engine with >25 million polygons per second
• 32MB of 166MHz DDR SGRAM (c.333MHz SDR SGRAM equivalent)
• 5.3GBps memory bandwidth
• 350MHz RAMDAC supports up to 2048x1536x32bppx75MHz
• AGP 2x/4X support with fast writes and AGP texturing