Price: $380+ street
Availability: Now

ASUSTek Computer Inc. is known for the high quality and breadth of features of its products in the video card and motherboard markets. We're happy to say that they earned their reputation by providing just that. Today, we're going to take a look at their newest high-end video card, their AGP-V7700 Deluxe 64MB, an NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS 64MB video card with integrated video digitizing, time-shifting (like TiVo), and wicked 3D power.

How does ASUS' massive manly card move? Can it capture video with the best? Is it worth $100 more than the 32MB version? Read on to find out!

The V7700 Deluxe 64MB is based on the NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS GPU, but it strays far from the path set by NVIDIA's reference design. While it appears that the core circuitry around the GeForce2 GTS GPU is essentially standard fare, adding video digitizing is not just a matter of cutting and pasting. ASUS pulled out the scalpel to do some major reconstruction on the outside portion (nearest the back of your machine), both front and back, of the V7700 Deluxe. They made room for several new video components as well as an S-video in, an S-video out, a composite-out, and their own VR-out for 3D glasses.