Whats the best video card for under $100?

[techster82]

I jumped on one of the Dell coupons and have a nice little E510 coming to me. It has the 2.8ghz Dual Core CPU, 1GB of DDR2, Serial ATA, blah blah blah. I left the videocard standard with the ATI X300 option. I am thinking about getting back into some PC gaming since I sold my XBOX 360 and was wondering what my best option is for a sub $100 card? My current computer has a Radeon 9800 Pro, but will be selling that with the computer. I have read some stuff on the Nvidia 6600 chipset with DDR2 memory, but they may be dated by now. What do you gurus recommend? If it makes any difference my monitor will be the Dell 2007WFP.

 

[Termie]

You're probably going to want to go with more than a $100 card to drive the 2007fpw. At the same time, the power supply might limit you to a degree. I'd say a 7600gt, or if you really can't afford that, a 7600gs.

 

[n7]

There's no such thing.

 

[Azndude2190]

I found the 6800XT on the front page of newegg's video page...after rebates its $99.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150130

256MB 256-bit
8 PP

 

[blckgrffn]

Try the EVGA 6800 from NewEgg, $105 shipped after rebate. Mine is doing 430/805 no problems right now

For what its worth, it will blow away any 6600 at nearly any oc'd speed, if you are oc'one you have to compare it to the other oc'd as well.

Good luck,
Nat

 

[techster82]

What about the ATI X800 GTO? Tom's hardware seems to think its the best thing in this price range.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: techster82
What about the ATI X800 GTO? Tom's hardware seems to think its the best thing in this price range.

That is a great sub $100 card, and no rebates to mail.

 

[santz]

please wait till june because the current generation of videocards will be outdated by then as directx 10 video cards for windows vista will be comming out.

the price of all the directx 9 video cards is expected to fall a lot

 

[darkdemyze]

Originally posted by: Termie
You're probably going to want to go with more than a $100 card to drive the 2007fpw. At the same time, the power supply might limit you to a degree. I'd say a 7600gt, or if you really can't afford that, a 7600gs.

That would imply AGP anyway..perhaps you missed topic summary? Not to mention

Originally posted by: n7
There's no such thing.

 

[Munky]

DX10 and Vista are not scheduled to come out until next year, and next gen cards will not be out until fall 2006, possibly not until the holiday season. Realistically, to run any modern game at the native resolution of a fp2007 you'll need at least a 7600gt, but those go for around $180. A x800gto is the fastest card you can get for $100, but you may have to lower the resolution to play some games.

 

[DaRkLoRd666]

Originally posted by: techster82
I jumped on one of the Dell coupons and have a nice little E510 coming to me. It has the 2.8ghz Dual Core CPU, 1GB of DDR2, Serial ATA, blah blah blah. I left the videocard standard with the ATI X300 option. I am thinking about getting back into some PC gaming since I sold my XBOX 360 and was wondering what my best option is for a sub $100 card? My current computer has a Radeon 9800 Pro, but will be selling that with the computer. I have read some stuff on the Nvidia 6600 chipset with DDR2 memory, but they may be dated by now. What do you gurus recommend? If it makes any difference my monitor will be the Dell 2007WFP.

with a 9800pro and only 100 to spend i would wait, maybe till the 6800 is 100

 

[blckgrffn]

Originally posted by: DaRkLoRd666

Originally posted by: techster82
I jumped on one of the Dell coupons and have a nice little E510 coming to me. It has the 2.8ghz Dual Core CPU, 1GB of DDR2, Serial ATA, blah blah blah. I left the videocard standard with the ATI X300 option. I am thinking about getting back into some PC gaming since I sold my XBOX 360 and was wondering what my best option is for a sub $100 card? My current computer has a Radeon 9800 Pro, but will be selling that with the computer. I have read some stuff on the Nvidia 6600 chipset with DDR2 memory, but they may be dated by now. What do you gurus recommend? If it makes any difference my monitor will be the Dell 2007WFP.

with a 9800pro and only 100 to spend i would wait, maybe till the 6800 is 100

They already are

 

[techster82]

So 6800 or x800 GTO? Also, there are so many manufacturers for these cards, which ones are have great performance and which ones do you stay away from? I also don't expect to be able to run a game at 1680x1050 with the price range I am looking at.