Buying a new high-end video card today can be a bit problematic in terms of what card to buy, how much to spend, and what you're looking for from a video card. It's clear that NVIDIA and ATI are the dominant forces in the standalone video card market today. ATI released the X1K series in October of last year, refreshing it with the X1900 at the beginning of this year.

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GIGABYTE is a computer component manufacturer that makes motherboards, video cards, DVD drives and other computer components. In terms of video cards, GIGABYTE uses chips from both NVIDIA and ATI, virtually using the entire repertoire from both manufacturers to fill out their lineup. Few companies like Sapphire EVGA and XFX use NVIDIA or ATI exclusively. Today I'm reviewing the GIGABYTE X1900XTX video card.