budget [?] video card selection help

[saimike]

hi there,

i'm looking to spend about $100 on a new agp video card for my A3000+ PC. it currently has a radeon 9700 which i will be using on another pc so that is the minimum performance i'm looking for. i play quite a bit of war3 so i'm not in need of top-flight video performance.

based on tomshardware videocharts + pricewatch, i think the sweet spot is a geforce6600 class performance at about $100+. based on this, i've narrowed down my choices to:

radeon x1300 pro 256mb agp - $90
Radeon x1600 pro 256mb AGP - $112
radeon x1300 512mb agp - $116
Radeon x1600 pro 512mb AGP - $125
radeon x800 agp 256mb - $131

geforce 6600 agp 256mb - $82
geforce 7600 gs - $100
geforce 6800 agp 256mb - $109

which would be a good bang for the buck choice? any comments would be welcome.

personally, i'm leaning kinda towards the 6800 or 7600 but can be persuaded otherwise if someone has a reason worth $20.

 

[lobbyone]

Originally posted by: saimike
hi there,

i'm looking to spend about $100 on a new agp video card for my A3000+ PC. it currently has a radeon 9700 which i will be using on another pc so that is the minimum performance i'm looking for. i play quite a bit of war3 so i'm not in need of top-flight video performance.

based on tomshardware videocharts + pricewatch, i think the sweet spot is a geforce6600 class performance at about $100+. based on this, i've narrowed down my choices to:

radeon x1300 pro 256mb agp - $90
Radeon x1600 pro 256mb AGP - $112
radeon x1300 512mb agp - $116
Radeon x1600 pro 512mb AGP - $125
radeon x800 agp 256mb - $131

geforce 6600 agp 256mb - $82
geforce 7600 gs - $100
geforce 6800 agp 256mb - $109

which would be a good bang for the buck choice? any comments would be welcome.

personally, i'm leaning kinda towards the 6800 or 7600 but can be persuaded otherwise if someone has a reason worth $20.

for best bang for the buck, i'd grab that geforce 6800 agp right away!!

 

[saimike]

how is the performance difference like between the 6800agp and the 7600agp?

most of the pci threads seems to indicate that the 7600gt (pci only?) is a little better than the 6800ultra (pci only?) for a few reasons, including lower power consumption. i would think that those same arguments be applicable to the agp versions?