Cheap Graphics Cards 

Cheap graphics cards are the ones that come in just under $100.

Graphics cards can come in different processing capability, memory, capacity, size, function and design. Some PC’s get a boost in performance because the motherboards taps into the graphics cards processor.

ATI Technologies Inc and nVidia Corp both are the world’s leading manufacturers of computer graphics cards. These mega giants in the computing world have been wrestling it out for years to see who can come out with the nest performing cheap graphics cards. The standards set by these two companies have paved the way for smaller companies to come in on the cheap graphics cards market.

The most important part of the graphics card is its processing power. A faster graphics card means a higher capacity processor. In order to get a quick understanding of how fast a processor is look at the suffixes at the end of the model numbers. Suffixes such as GT, LE, GS, GTX, XT, and XTX represent the memory clock speed and pipelines which are important factors at determining the processing power of the graphics card. You’ll find these suffixes in ATI graphics cards a lot.

Some of the smaller more notable companies that make cheap graphics cards are EVGA, PNY, Sapphire Radeon and Matrox.

Here are three examples of cheap graphics cards.

EVGA 01G-P3-N945-LR GeForce 9400 GT 1GB DDR2 PCI-E 2.0 Graphics Card

This cheap graphics card costs about $60 on average. The features include:

• GeForce 9400 GT(550MHz clock) chipset,
• 1GB of 128-bit DDR2 memory with a 400 MHz clock with an effective rate of 800 MHz
• 1400MHz Shader Clock
• 16 processing cores
• PCI Express 2.0 compatibility
• Dual DVI-I connectors
• 12.8GB per second memory bandwidth, NVIDIA unified architecture
• Full Microsoft DirectX 10 support
• NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology
• OPEN GL 2.1 support

Even though this graphics card comes with a one year warranty you can get an additional year if you register your graphics cards within 30 days of purchase.

PNY VCGFX522PEB GeForce FX 5200 256MB VGA + VGA PCI Graphics Card

In order to get that cinematic look on your computer you need a graphics card that can give you that kind of power. The nVidia GeForce FX cheap graphics cards that does just that. This graphics card was built for the latest software and is the only Microsoft DirectX 9.0 GPU in its class. You get film quality effects and color quality in this 128 bit precision image quality card in all demanding applications.

• NVIDIA® CineFX™ 3.0 Engine
• Integrated TV encoder
• Microsoft® DirectX 9.0 Optimizations and Support
• Digital Vibrance Control 3.0
• 128-bit Studio-Precision Color

Sapphire Radeon HD3850 512MB GDDR3 Dual DVI-I / TVO AGP Graphics Card

Sapphire graphics cards has revitalized itself with a new gamining experiencing in their cheap graphics card, the Sapphire HD 3850. As one of their most feature laden graphics cards, the Sapphire HD 3850 is built on the popular Radeon HD 3850 core. This graphics card eclipses some of the more mainstream cards that are offered on the market today. It holds advanced technologies for DirectX 10 and Shader Model 4 support. For those who are HD geeks it has an integrated HDCP support for Blu-Ray/HD DVD decoding.