Best Card for Gaming in the $100 range?

[smellyfed]

Am running a Duron 1300 with 768mb RAM on a Win98 machine. My weakest link is this 2 year old ATI Rage Fury Pro 32mb video card.

I like to do gaming... Everquest, Mafia, GTA3 and the sort.

What is the best video card @$100 would buy me? Hopefully something that'll run all the latest and greatest for at least a couple years.

From Pricewatch:
$89 - RADEON 9500 64MB
$98 - RADEON 9000 Pro 128MB
$86 - RADEON 9000 Pro 64MB
$63 - RADEON 9000
$66 - RADEON 8500
$48 - RADEON 7500
$110 - GeForce4 TI 4200 64MB
$88 - GeForce4 MX 460
$78 - GeForce4 MX 440 128MB
$41 - GeForce4 MX 440 64MB

Can you all help me pick the best video card for my money? Essentially for gaming only. TNL capable hopefully (Spiderman).

 

[FrustratedUser]

$89 - RADEON 9500 64MB

I think that's your best bet @ the moment.
I could be wrong.

 

[mrzed]

That 9500 at $89 has got to be a mistake.

 

[smellyfed]

Ack. I click on that one in Pricewatch and it tells me:

"SAPPHIRE ATI ATLANTIS RADEON 9100 64MB DDR DVI-TVO. OEMversion" ... apparently they have it listed wrong.
All the other listings for the 8500 come up for about $150.

Whats my next best bet?

 

[RainDowg]

You can find an 8500le for under 100 dollars, and it's a great card. But if you're willing to top out at $110 then I would go with the Ti4200.

 

[Derick]

Yeah, if you can spend the extra for the GF4 Ti4200 64MB then go for that. Or go with the Radeon 8500LE 128MB or the non-LE Radeon 8500 64MB. Both are under $100.

 

[nick1985]

the ti 4200 is your best bet, spend a few extra dollars

 

[Mem]

I would take the GF4 TI4200 over the ATi 9500(non-pro version).

 

[kc2gub]

get the geforce 4 ti4200 ...it will blow away all the ones you have listed esp the shitty geforce 4 mx, mx suck..

 

[Killrose]

The 8500le's are a good value. They can be had for under $70 and if you can find a source that has the one's with 3.6ns ram they are the best because most all of them will do 275MHz core/mem and beyond.
Other than that. The 9500 64mb is a good deal. Stay with Ati if you have been happy.

$110 Ti 4200 is a good deal too, and is the fastest of the bunch.

 

[Whisper]

Stay away from MX, that would be my only advice. The ti4200 is a good card for the money, as is the 8500 (try and go for 128mb if you can with either choice). If you really could find a 9500pro for $98, then hell, get it. But the cheapest built by ATI 9500pro that I've seen is roughly $195, so don't get your hopes up.

BTW, I do hate how some of the pricewatch companies stick the somewhat misleading product descriptions in there. Bah.

 

[Derick]

BTW, I do hate how some of the pricewatch companies stick the somewhat misleading product descriptions in there. Bah.

No kidding. Ya think the people at Pricewatch would do something about that. It gets really frustrating at times.