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Clonedsheep:
Who's making a nice one for around $100 US. I have not had to deal with this for awhile and now it needs to be done. I need to stay within this price range because I have 4 to upgrade. I need the most bang for my buck. I'm getting the wifey into some major gaming and the choppiness is killing it.
Lilwolf:
MMORPG multiboxing?
Lilwolf:
I've been a ATI fan for a few years now. I love my ATI 9500->9700 GREAT deal in that it still plays the latest games pretty well and I bought it for a 150 2 or 3 years ago.
BUT..
I hear that nvidia has the best price / performance cards these days.
What prices your talking about your either talking a used card, or one with slower speeds / ect.
Geforces 6600 have some that are in that price range. But I don't know how they compare to the 6800 (which a friend has and loves).
ATI has the 9700 pro for 96 bucks on pricewatch. Good card. Might be faster then the newer 9800 (non-pro) that you can get for 102 shipped.
btw, last I heard, many people are having great luck overclocking their 6800 to 6800 gts. So its a 160 card -> 300 card. I think this is probably the best price / performance right now.
btw, if you don't care about anything over 800x600 you don't care about many of these cards.
and if you know the game itself, you should mention it. Geforces are MUCH better at OpenGL games like Doom3 and ATI is better at directX games (most the others)..
Clonedsheep:
Thanks for the reply. I have been looking @ the ATI Vs. Nvidia issue so your post helps. I am looking at playing F.E.A.R, and call of duty 2 etc. My wife loves the sims 2 ??? I am running an athlon 64 3200 for one system and can put more into the video. The other is an xp2400 so I was going to wait till I upgraded the whole thing.
RayB:
Just stay away from "MX" (nvidia) and "SE" (ATi) versions.
You are better off with a "PRO" version of the an older ATI card, than you are with an SE version of a newer card.
Same with Geforce/Nvidia. MX series have stripped features, so you're better off with a slightly older non-MX crd than a brand new MX version.