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Darkhawk28

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Need help choosing one of the three that would be best suited for MMORPG's.

I only can spend a hair over $100 unfortunately.

Thanks for the help.

Other system specs...

Athlon 2600+ Barton
1gb pc3200 kingston
Abit NF7-S v2.0 Nforce 2 Ultra 400
 
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Madwand1

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For WoW for example, I'd advise you to save your money and do a MB + CPU + PCIe video upgrade down the road instead of sinking some more money into AGP and then wiping that with a subsequent upgrade. You could also go for an ASRock hybrid and keep the AGP later, and that might be fine, but going PCIe earlier will give probably let you save a bit of money and give you more flexibility and longevity.

Why? Because I've done some tests with an Athlon XP 2600+ and different graphics cards, and found that upgrading the graphics card alone (from 4400 Ti to 6800 GT) produced no framerate benefit (although it did provide some more eyecandy headroom) and upgrading both the CPU (to Athlon 64) and video card provided a significant improvement.
 
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Green Man

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Well the specs are


GPU mem gpu
x1600 102400 6000
6600gt 115200 4000
6800nu 179200 3900

So, the 6800nu has teh highest memory bandwith. If you want to run at 1280 x 960 with medium eye candy get5 the 6800 nu

But, the x1600 has the most pixel power. If you want to run at 800 x 600 with all eye candy or 1024 x 768 with most eye candy get x1600pro
 
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