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As I'm addicted to BF2, I looked up the video cards that it can operate with, and I'm wondering which one would be the best buy. I removed the PCIEs from the list, since my computer doesn't have a slot for them.

GeForce 5800 Series (AGP)
ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition
ATI Radeon X800 PRO
ATI Radeon 9800 Series
ATI Radeon 9600 Series
ATI Radeon 9550 (RV350LX)
ATI Radeon 9500 / 9700 Series
ATI Radeon 8500 Series
ATI Radeon X300 Series
NVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra
NVidia GeForce 6800 GT
NVidia GeForce 6800
NVidia GeForce FX 5950 Series
NVidia GeForce FX 5900 Series
NVidia GeForce FX 5700 Series

Whats your budget? High end is the 6800GT, medium is a 9700-9800, stay AWAY from FX's.

The card I'm returning is $200, so something in that range.

IIRC, you can get a 6800GT from newegg.com for around 220 (at least some brands, Ill do a quick search.)
EDIT: It appears I was wrong; the lowest 6800GT APG I saw was around the 260 dollar mark.

Two hundred bucks? Get a 6800. And yes, avoid the FX series like the plague.

I'd take a X800.
BUt it depends on the games you want to play, really. The difference between GeForce and ATI isn't that great in this department...

Heh, actually, nevermind for now. Since I start college in a week, and since I'm leaving the desktop at home for at least a while, I figured it wasn't worth buying a new card right now.

Heh, I've been looking into buying a new video card since the Radeon 9700.... still haven't done it.

EDIT: The following is irrelevant to this thread.

Tiger Ace wrote:Whats your budget? High end is the 6800GT, medium is a 9700-9800, stay AWAY from FX's.

BZZT! Wrong. Your high end is but a piker compared to these giants:

7800GT cards for sale at Newegg

And for the ultra-high end... the 7800GTX, which when run in SLI completely overpowers the 3DMark2005 test.

Get a 7800. I've been looking at the benchmarks for them. Just, holy shit...

The 7800 GT and GTX are not AGP cards. PCIe only. Read the OP.

Ooooh. 200 dollars. Erm. I'd say go for an X800, that way later on you can easily transition to crossfire.

SPOOFE wrote:The 7800 GT and GTX are not AGP cards. PCIe only. Read the OP.

Damn. Forgot about that.

Personally, I'd highly suggest saving his money towards replacing the motherboard and processor, so that he does have PCIe slots.

What is the OP's current system anyway?

Personally, I'd highly suggest saving his money towards replacing the motherboard and processor, so that he does have PCIe slots.

Yeah, me too, but considering that AGP 8x still hasn't had its bandwidth maxed out, there's not too much incentive. Upping to PCIe basically just means you don't need to plug in an extra power connector...

EDIT:

that way later on you can easily transition to crossfire.

Not. With. AGP.

weemadando wrote:Ooooh. 200 dollars. Erm. I'd say go for an X800, that way later on you can easily transition to crossfire.

If your willing to wait a few weeks(End of the month) I have a x800 myself I could drop for a hundred plus shipping.

A thousand "bah"s to you man!

weemadando wrote:A thousand "bah"s to you man!

Soon as I get back to the states I have a 7800 GTX to order and a new MB to buy. Then I have one (Useless) AGP ATI x800 to get rid off.

The GeForce 6800 is going to be your best choice as far as $:Quality I believe.

Uraniun235 wrote:

SPOOFE wrote:The 7800 GT and GTX are not AGP cards. PCIe only. Read the OP.

Damn. Forgot about that.

Personally, I'd highly suggest saving his money towards replacing the motherboard and processor, so that he does have PCIe slots.

What is the OP's current system anyway?

EMachines
AMD Athlon XP processor, 512 MB of DDR RAM, 240 GB of hard drive space, and an NVidia GF 4MX graphics card.

Get more ram while you are at it.

Seriously, 512mb isnt enough for some of the more recent games which would run fine on a less than steller graphics card.

Jadeite wrote:

Uraniun235 wrote:

SPOOFE wrote:The 7800 GT and GTX are not AGP cards. PCIe only. Read the OP.

Damn. Forgot about that.

Personally, I'd highly suggest saving his money towards replacing the motherboard and processor, so that he does have PCIe slots.

What is the OP's current system anyway?

EMachines
AMD Athlon XP processor, 512 MB of DDR RAM, 240 GB of hard drive space, and an NVidia GF 4MX graphics card.

What speed is that Athlon XP?

2.17 ghz

Do.Not.Go.For.A.6xxx series with that CPU.

Your going to be bottlenecked to hell.

Get a nice sweet 9800Pro and 1GB of RAM.

And Uranium, do you think I'd forgotten? PCI-E*knocks masive 6800GT on uraniums head*

A 6600 GT shouldn't be bottlenecked too much, and it exceeds the 9800 Pro in some respects.. Anyway, there are always going to be bottlenecks in any system, especially if it's built on the relative cheap.

Tiger Ace wrote:And Uranium, do you think I'd forgotten? PCI-E*knocks masive 6800GT on uraniums head*

*parries with AGP 6800GT*

It'll take more than that to strike me down!

(no, I didn't buy this card, my friend went off to Okinawa and left his desktop behind, and let me borrow his vid card)