For the purpose of video editing with Vegas and DVD authoring with Ulead and possibly purchasing Ultra from Serious Magic... What are your recommendations for a new video card for under $100? I'm currently using an SiS 315 64mb card which is giving me problems galore. Appreciate your input!!
From what I've heard, Vegas doesn't care about video cards and doesn't depend on them. I recently bought a GeForce4 card for my daughter's PC for $50 that has lots of game-playing power. I personally use an ancient Nvidia TNT2 card on my PC.
It might be nice to get a card that supports two monitors, but I'll have to leave suggestions there for someone else on this Board.
Nvidia, ATI, and Matrox cards all do dual monitors. I would go for Nvidia or Matrox (ATI doesn't let you have 2 taskbars, a minor thing so maybe don't knock it out of the running right away).
newegg.com has a whole bunch of cheap cards, look at the pictures and see if they come with an adapter to see what combinations of DVI and VGA they do. I would get a Nvidia GF4 (older generation) card with the right outputs.
GeForce FX 5200 has dropped to below $100.00 now. Depending on what model you get it is a good card. 128 megas or ram, Open GL support and dual monitor support. The model I have the AGP model and it has Dual VGA and S-VHS out. I picked it up at either Staples or Office Max for $98.00 I think.