I like great graphics just as much as any avid 3D-holic. Games are a much better experience if you have a capable graphics card because it really helps portray the game with a better environment. Granted, any graphics perception is as true as the anecdote, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". But, no one wants to play a potentially awesome video game on a weak system with an incapable graphics card.
NVidia and ATI are still the top graphics card producers. NVidia holds a greater market share simply due to some of the most capable Graphics Processing Units ever created. Some of their older memorable GPUs have been the 6800 and 7900 series. The 7800 series just seemed to fly by with some performance improvements, but without leaving much of a wake.
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*Review: Virtual-Hideout (
http://www.virtual-hideout.net/revie.../index.shtml)*
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