Best Videocard?

[33TheGame33]

Alright, Right now my video card sucks. I have Nvidia. I need some suggestions.

I'm looking for a good video card yet, not one that costs more than my CPU.

Uhm, $700.

[ConscriptVirus]

do u have agp or pci express? and im geussing if u have pci-e the best card is prob 8800gtx

[Bloodsport]

What CPU have you got and what card(s) do you have now?

Plus this is in the wrong section.

[33TheGame33]

My Manufacturer:
Compaq Presario 061

Processor:
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.4GHz

My Current Video Card:
NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE

[GeoffRowley]

Well, you can do alot with 700$ for a videocard. Anymore parameters that you would like to help slim down the options?

[megawhompertoo]

$600 8800gtx + $100 ~700-800W (edit: +650W psu) would be the way to go, if you've got $700 absolutely burning a hole in your pocket.

personally, i'd get a $250 x1950xt or a 7950gt and put the rest into a retirement/house/car account. then again, i'm married and fairly boring. :)

edit: hmmmm...how much ram? and with a single-core processor, you might be better served going with the x1950xt or 7950gt, rather than buying an oober card that the rest of your comp struggles to keep up with. any of you gurus know what sort processor speed/ram combo is required to not bottleneck an 8800gtx?

[SyDuS]

$600 8800gtx + $100 ~700-800W psu would be the way to go, if you've got $700 absolutely burning a hole in your pocket.

personally, i'd get a $250 x1950xt or a 7950gt and put the rest into a retirement/house/car account. then again, i'm married and fairly boring. :)

edit: hmmmm...how much ram? and with a single-core processor, you might be better served going with the x1950pro or 7950gs, rather than buying an oober card that the rest of your comp struggles to keep up with. any of you gurus know what sort processor speed/ram combo is required to not bottleneck an 8800gtx?

im sure you mean the cheaper pro and gs, get a 1950pro if your just playin bf2, 100+ fps on max with 2gb ram. get 2 in xfire for the power of a beast. at 200$ u can't go wrong. but really, your current pc sucks i hate to tell you, that proc you got could bottleneck some of the newest cards, and not being dual core hurts, i bet your MB is a pos as well since its compaq and made for word processing

[megawhompertoo]

im sure you mean the cheaper pro and gs, get a 1950pro if your just playin bf2, 100+ fps on max with 2gb ram. get 2 in xfire for the power of a beast. at 200$ u can't go wrong. but really, your current pc sucks i hate to tell you, that proc you got could bottleneck some of the newest cards, and not being dual core hurts, i bet your MB is a pos as well since its compaq and made for word processing

nah. if the op has a pci-e port, i'd suggest x1950xt. difference is +400mhz memory and 50mhz core (575/1380mhz v 625/1800mhz) for an extra $50 (total of $250). my thinking is that if you're going to spend $200, you might as well go the extra $50, considering that it's 25% increase in ram speed for 20% increase in cost. add the modest increase in gpu core speed, and it very nicely makes the speed/cost ratio higher.

the "law of grossly diminishing returns" with computer parts and credit cards kicks in with the next step up--x1950xtx @650/2000mhz would be excessive imho at ~$360, gdd4 or not.

[xXSniper1432Xx]

just get a 7900 GS like me gives me 100 FPS easily....

[coco]

7800gtx is better value for money than the 8800gtx.:p

[[R-PUB]MrD]

don't forget to budget for a decent PSU as well!

[Bloodsport]

He has a AGP board. Can't go wrong with the 7600 GS AGP version.