ATI RADEON® 9800 XT, (256 MB) AGP Video Card

Pros: Awesome Graphics, smooth FPS 99% of the time.
Cons: Tricky install, may take upgrades to make it work well.

For the specs and details about what the card has to offer, I humbly defer to oneazn2nv's detailed review. I'd like to add my experiences with buying, installing and using the card. I agree that the Radeon 9800 XT 256 MB DDR is one great card. ...

Pros: overdrive, Half Life 2, Top of the line graphics card, drivers, Performance, benchmarks...
Cons: price.

Intro: When I heard about Half Life 2 and Everquest 2 coming out for PC, I knew it was time to shop for a new graphics card. I own 2 radeon 8500 64meg cards and have been very happy with their performance in both of my computers. However, now ...

Pros: Very Fast Card, Not too noisy, Highest 3dmark03 scores, Very Overclockable using ATItool
Cons: Expensive.

Simply-put, the Radeon 9800 XT is the ultimate gamer's videocard. Nothing compares. Nvidia's 5950 comes close (with it's new pixel-shader instruction re-compiler), but in terms of raw performance and PS2.0 performance, the 9800XT is clearly the faster card. Half Life 2 is made on this card, and performs best on this card.