the geforce ti series released a bad line of video cards, basically bad transitors which really screwed up the cards graphics performance under heavy load. You would end up getting the worse graphics glitch you can imagine and about 2 fps. If you dont get one of those bad cards then your ok, they were good cards at there time, and the ti500 actually benched faster than some of the geforce 4's. just dont plan on playing HL2 or doom3 with good graphics. Most of the games released in the past couple years are already really stressing them out, if I were you, go for the 9800 pro.