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A good Nubus video card will get you more features and probably more color depth, but it still goes through the Nubus BUS which is kind of slow. Built in video on the Quadra's isn't that bad. Once you get into the Nubus PPC the PDS (processor direct slot) video cards are faster then any Nubus based one just because of bandwidth. The Mac II series that has built in video is crippled (IIci, IIsi, etc), the best Mac IIs (II, IIx, IIfx have no built in video). You can probably fine some VRAM cheaper then that website sells it for, try LEMswap on google groups and see what comes up. I like the Supermac Thunder/ 24 Nubus cards for Quadras, they are fast and have 3MB of VRAM for 24 bit color at 1024x768. You only have 2 slots on the Q700 for Nubus cards (which is why I never bothered to get one), but for most people that is plenty.