Video card manufacturers may hype the bejesus out of their top end offerings, but they are not stupid, and they know for every buyer of a top end card, there are numerous consumers who have no desire to assume a second mortgage just to play a game. Thus, the midrange market has become a battleground every bit as vicious, and in truth, more important than the Battle of the Titans. ATI has released their X700 series video cards to fill this market segment, and the card we're looking at today, the X700 Pro 256MB, is the middle card of three X700 offerings in terms of price and performance.