What to buy?

[Bigproton]

Hey,

I'm heading off to university and I want to upgrade my current graphics card: 3DFX Voodoo Banshee

I need to use autocard and I would like to be able to play games. (500fps is not important to me)

I've narrowed it down to these, your opinion would be great:

Asus V7700TiVx Pure GeForce2 TiVx w/ 32Mb DDR AGP Retail Box

ATI Radeon 7500 AGP 64Mb DDR w/ Video Out Video Card OEM

Asus v8170DDR GeForce4 - 440MX w/ 64Mb DDR & TV-Out AGP Retail Box (better be worth it for the extra $50 it costs more that the others..)


Thanks.

 

[spanky]

is it absolutely neccesary that u get one of the mentioned cards? what kinda games r u gonna be playing? and what is ur budget? in the $100 range... i would suggest a radeon 8500le... i think it's a better bargain than the options u have listed.

 

[Bigproton]

My budget is $150 CDN for the vcard.

Games I will play are Starcraft, Flight Simulator 2002.

The computer I intend to buy:

Premium ATX case 300Watt (6 drive bays)
AMD Athlon 1800+
Thermaltake Volcano 7 Coppper heatsink and variable ball bearing fan
Asus A7s333
256mb 2100 ddr
40gb 7200rpm
sound blaster live value 5.1
creative cambridge 2.1
logitech optical mouse
Sony 24x/10x/40x
Epson c60 ink jet
viewsonic e75 0.25

 

[nemo160]

i'd reccomend a gf3ti 200 or readeon 8500 le( both about $100 us on pricewatch)
either of those is a better choice than any of the cards you have listed
both are direct x 8 parts
gf 4mx is basically an updated gf2 and lacks many important features for future games