just effectively halved my video memory...

[Dorkenstein]

My X850 radeon died and I slapped in a 6200 LT with half the video memory (256 -> 128) What problem does this pose? And what's the best budget 256mb card for pci-e?

 

[aka1nas]

I'd be more concerned that the card is several times slower than the X850 than the amount of memory on it.

For a budget card you could look at the 7600GT or even one of the 8600s.

 

[kylebisme]

Having less texture memory means you'll have to turn your texture resolution down to aviod swapping in newer games that use a lot of texture memory, and having a much slower card means you'll need to turn most other stuff down quite a bit as well.

 

[bob4432]

if you are a gamer, then i think the best card atm is the x1950xt 256MB gpu