Although we prefer the frame rate mastery that the Guillemot Maxi Gamer Xentor TNT2 AGP card provides in games, we feel the Matrox G400 MAX finishes a close second in the race for a PC's best possible video solution.

Featuring Dual Head, Environmental Bump Mapping, and AGP4X support, the 32MB G400 MAX delivers stunning in-game visuals as well as high 2D refresh rates.

In addition, Matrox has recently released their TurboGL drivers for the G400 series of video cards, which offers great performance improvements in games like Half-Life and Quake3: Arena.

The G400 MAX is a great pic for anyone's PC.

If you've really got cash to blow, you may want to equip your Disruptor with the fastest video card money can buy, the Guillemot 3D Prophet GeForce256 card.

GamePC expects to receive their first shipments of the 3D Prophet within the next two weeks.

We recently chose the new Pioneer 10X DVD-ROM as our pick for the best DVD drive currently on the market. GamePC feels this way as well and has included the unit on the Disruptor along with a Sigma Designs Hollywood + MPEG-2 decoder card.

The combination is impressive as the Pioneer easily handles any job assigned to it quickly, while the perfect clarity of DVD images is presented via the Hollywood card without any distortion.

If you're still looking for areas where you can cut corners on the Disruptor's price, the Hollywood card is a good item to possibly eliminate due to the Matrox G400 MAX AGP card's excellent DVD image quality. We noticed virtually no drop off in quality when switching from the G400 MAX and the Hollywood card when watching DVD movies.