What new video card should I get?

Question

I'm looking to get a new video card, but I'm not sure what to get. I'm going to be using it for gaming, but I hope to keep it around $150, even less if that is possible. It will have to be and AGP 8x, or PCI compatible card. Am I going to need a lot of pixel pipelines? I was looking at newegg and found this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814131430
Any help or thoughts would be nice.

Answer 1

I'm an ATI guy, although that X1600 Pro is part of the current ATI series of cards I believe it's actually slower then the high end cards of last generation, it has 8 or 12 pipelines I believe and run at 128bits and don't be mislead by that whopping 512MB-bigger doesnt mean its faster, the X800-850XT have 16 pipelines with GDDR3 not 2 at 256bits. Go for the X800 XT, XT PE, XL, or X850 series. As for current gen cards from ATI you basically have to go to the X1800 and up for gaming. If you're going for Nvidia, Nvidia last gen vcard GF 6800 series would be the equivalent of the ATI RADEON X800/850 series, Nvidia 6800 does have and edge over ATI with their shader 3.0 where as ATI X800/850 have the shader 2.0. Most Nvidia GF 7 are PCI-E, they've pretty much phased out AGP in their current gen of cards, ATI is doing the same also. I currently have the X850 XT and X800 XT, they are great cards, can play Call of Duty 2, Company of Heroes, F.E.A.R., NFS Most Wanted in max details in most or all settings at 1280x1024 with no probs...those are the games I'm curently playing, I'm not sure about other popular games such as Doom 3 or the new Battle Field games though, you can get the X800 XT/XT PE for 150-200.

Answer 2

I would get this one:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102057
I have been answering several questions like this in the past few days and I have found that this card is the best in this particluar price range for AGP.

Answer 3

That is a nice card you have on there but personally i'm more of an nvidia guy. So i would go for maybe a Nvidia 6800 OC. You would have to look it up on ebay but i believe that they are around $150.

Answer 4

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