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budget [?] video card selection help

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saimike

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