there are a few reasons why i would recoment this VGA card. first its a mid range card which seams to be about your price range. sencond its fast for that. in doom three on a nice system you can get 56fps while running 1280X1024 with 2XAA 8XAF. thats pritty impressive and it means that with your system your VGA card will pobebly not be the bottleneck