Well its time to buy a new card, the old Gforce 4 Ti4200 needs to go. I have been out of the tech loop for a wile and I don’t know what to buy. I'm willing to spend in the area of $150 give or take, It also needs to be an AGP card. I would like to be able to play the new games like Doom 3 and HL 2. My current system specs are not the good but I put in a order to Newegg on Sat to do a little upgrading. Let me list off what I bought: CoolerMaster Cavalier 3 Case, 512 DDR400 x2 (Rosewill) RAM, Athlon XP 3000+ Processor, ThermalTake SilentBoost HSF, WinXP Home (Win98 is old dur!), Logitec MX 510 Mouse. The old stuff I’m using is my Matsonic MS8147C+ VIA KT400/A Mobo that I have had for wile, SoundBlaster Live! 24bit and for now I have the old Ti4200 8x. I would have bought the card but I don’t want to spend the much money in one weekend. Please give me your ideas on what I need to buy and not pay an arm and a leg.

The 6600GT would be the best bang for your buck, I think they probably go for $180-200US, I'm not sure though.

For $150 a 9600XT would be a good choice. It's the card I have. I'm able to run Far Cry, Doom 3, and HL2 at high detail. No AA or AF in Far Cry or Doom 3, but I can jack HL2 up pretty damn high.

6600GT > 9600XT

Not trying to be fanboyish. It's just true.

A 9600XT would be a waste of money, seeing as you can get a 6600GT for $30 more. I own an ASUS 9600xt, but I wouldn't recommend it to anybody anymore, not with the prices on the 6600's.

The 6600 goes for $200? How does it compare to a radeon 9800 pro performance wise?

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=Njg5LDQ=

The article's a bit old, but not much has changed.

Ah, thank you. /me pets his 9800 pro

I still love you...

Still, it's too expensive to be worth it over the 6600

Yeah, what Ric says. A bit better.

6600GT, you won't regret it. Save the extra $$ for it, and you'll be very happy.

I'd reccommend 9600XTs for ~100-120, but they're rare finds at that price. After that, it's basically the 9800 or the 6600GT.

While we are on the topic...

To anyone who can afford it, I would whole-heartedly recommend the x800xl pci-e card. I just got mine running in my new machine and it blows me away, especially for the price. ($299)

How much you want for the GeForce 4 >.> <.<

Hell yes! But nobody has PCI-E and is in the range of it. I think there's a card coming out for the AGP market that's someone the same (X800 XR or something...I may be wrong)

I'm so going to buy that card... it makes me cream in my pants... it's going in my new computer.

The 'cream' or the card?

*sigh*

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Thanks a lot for the really good info and all, your a lot of help. It will prolly be a month or so before I save up for the card...wish me luck on my 6600GT...