Video Card Recomendations

[srozzman]

Can you guys recomend me an AGP (yes, AGP) video card for under $150? This one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150233 is the one i am thinking about. BTW, im upgrading from a Nvidia GeForce2 MX 100 DDR/200 DDR, so anything is really an improvement.

EDIT: This on too http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130076

OOO another one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814143020

 

[Honken]

What about this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102093 ?

It's way better than the 7600GT, performance wise. But if you had a GeForce 2 MX my guess is that the rest of your PC is kinda... slow and to make the most use out of that GPU I'd recommend that you upgraded the rest of the PC also.

 

[srozzman]

its not too slow... its a cheapo card because it was my mom's old work computer.

Heres the specs -
Mobo - Intel D875PBZ
CPU - Pentium 4 2.8 ghz
Ram - 1gig, 333mhz
Video - Nvidia GeForce2 MX 100 DDR/200 DDR
Need to check the PSU
OS - Ubuntu 7.04, openSuSE 10.2

i was looking at that card, but its a little pricey, and the ATi drivers for linux arent that good

 

[Honken]

Well, if you are on Linux, what do you really need a fast GPU for?

And to be honest, I've had less problems with the ATi drivers than the nVidia drivers.

 

[srozzman]

well, i do play open arena, but i can do that at max settings right now, but i can barely run beryl and all those other goodies, and i want to eventually reinstall windoze on my 40 gb drive so i can play rise of legends, and some other games

 

[Honken]

Ah, I see. Well, the 7600GT is a decent card for the money, it can even play "graphically heavy" games like Oblivion at rather high settings.

 

[srozzman]

oh, are there any cheaper ATi cards than the one you showed me, but that could still smoke a 7600gt? am all ears, and want to know all the options

 

[Honken]

I think so.

http://www.computerbase.de/artikel/h...formancerating

That benchmark is for PCI-E based cards, I think (I don't speak German). The results should be similar on AGP.