Price: $380 street

Although ASUS is usually a bit late with their graphics products, it is always for a good reason. In order to make their products stand out in an often blasé market, ASUS engineers their products to support Video-In and Out, plus 3D glasses. Add a well-rounded software package, and you have one very tempting piece of hardware.

Installation was relatively easy, despite the re-boots necessary to install the complete software package that is included with the ASUS card. ASUS does a solid job of adding features to the NVIDIA driver set (OpenGL and Direct3D support for the 3D glasses), and are consistent with driver updates. FSAA quality is slightly less than the RADEON, as are the MPEG-2 decoding capabilities.

ASUS AGP-V7700 Deluxe 64MB

• 200MHz GeForce2 core
• 800 million pixels per second
• 1600 million texels per second
• Hardware transformation and lighting engine with >25 million polygons per second
• 64MB of 166MHz DDR SGRAM (c.333MHz SDR SGRAM equivalent)
• 350MHz RAMDAC supports up to 2048x1536x32bppx75MHz
• AGP 2x/4X support
• Video In/Out (S-Video and RCA)
• 3D glasses support