What's a good vid card for under $80?

[xander5000]

I do mostly 2d work with some gaming (UT, Q3). I have a geforce 1 and i'm wondering if i should upgrade.
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[Texun]

Both of these cards are listed on Pricewatch and in your range. Either should do well for what you need. I have a Gforce Pro and it does very well. Have heard the RADEON cards do better with graphics, but I haven't seen one.

STOCK -Geforce2 TI 64mb DDR , attached high performance cooling fan cd driver, 3d mark2000 manual bulk. $75

Model No: 100-430119 8500DV 7000 7500 8500 VE 8500LE $80

Figure about $10 for shipping.

Both are 64MB cards. You can get the 32 meg version for a few dollars less.

Good luck,
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[bizmark]

Newegg.com has the GeForce2 GTS-V for $49 and $7 fixed shipping. Not as good as the Ti, but still pretty good and pretty overclockable too. The GTS-V runs slightly slower than the GTS (175/286 vs. 200/333 for the normal GTS if I'm not mistaken) but a registry hack will let you run it at normal GTS speeds (or higher).

Judging by the thread in the Hot Deals forum, this is really the best bang-for-your-buck video card out there. If I had 80 bucks to spend, I'd probably get the GF2Ti, as it'd definitely outperform the GTS-V, but then again IMHO the 60% price increase really isn't worth the maybe 10% performance difference you'd get from the Ti. I'd rather spend a little bit more and get the significant architectural improvements of a GF3.

I was essentially in your position a few weeks ago, and I opted for the cheap solution (GTS-V), and now I'm looking at the beautiful textures and smooth framerates of Serious Sam on my machine and I swear that anything better would be complete overkill.

hot deals thread

 

[GasX]

Here's one: Radeon 7000 DDR 64MB $59 @ TCWO

And for a serious bargain!!!