Best Performance for 200$?

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Whats the best graphics card I could buy for 200$ and below?
I mostly play games such as Lineage2 and Doom3/HL2.

I'm sure these kind of threads are pretty popular and annoying to some ppl, but I really do have to make sure I checked it all out before I go buy something.
At the moment I had the RadeonX850XT in mind, are there better preformance cards at the 200$ budget range from Ati/nvidia?

Sidenotes: I'm not planning on OCing my graphics card fulltime, only for benching maybe. And the graphic card would be inside a AMD athlon x2 3800+, asus a8n-e mobo, 2x512 mb PC3200 Corsair XMS, system.

Thanks in advance.
 

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Any Lineage2 players that can confirm the 7600Gt's ability in that game to run smoothly in sieges?
(This is important for me, I do know ppl with x800xt that can run it smoothly)
Do you have any benchmarks of the x850xt compared to the 7600GT in several games/3dmarks?

Oh and what brand should I go with that card? or it doesnt matter? (sapphire/leadtek/asus etc.)