I am looking at buying two video cards soon:
1) A Christmas present for my brother. He has an older system with, IIRC, and FX5600 AGP card in it. He can't afford a whole new system right now. I'm thinking maybe a 7600GT for him? I wouldn't want to spend much more than $100 or so.
2) A card for a new system I'm building for myself. I am not running out and buying the latest, greatest FPSes... I tend to play older games that I can get for $20 Right now, I have Half Life (yes, the original!) and HALO (yes, the original!) I do want to get Half Life 2. Yeah, I know... "8800GT". But nobody has them in stock, and if they do, it's for nearly $300. I'm looking at an eVGA 7600GT for $89 and figure that if I really, really wanted to, I could Step-Up to an 8800GT or something after the holiday season is over and hopefully supply picks up. I'd be perfectly happy with a $100-150 or so card... just about anything is going to blow my old Ti4200 away.
1) A Christmas present for my brother. He has an older system with, IIRC, and FX5600 AGP card in it. He can't afford a whole new system right now. I'm thinking maybe a 7600GT for him? I wouldn't want to spend much more than $100 or so.
2) A card for a new system I'm building for myself. I am not running out and buying the latest, greatest FPSes... I tend to play older games that I can get for $20 Right now, I have Half Life (yes, the original!) and HALO (yes, the original!) I do want to get Half Life 2. Yeah, I know... "8800GT". But nobody has them in stock, and if they do, it's for nearly $300. I'm looking at an eVGA 7600GT for $89 and figure that if I really, really wanted to, I could Step-Up to an 8800GT or something after the holiday season is over and hopefully supply picks up. I'd be perfectly happy with a $100-150 or so card... just about anything is going to blow my old Ti4200 away.