this graphics card any good?

[photikz]

This only costs 150 from Compusa. I'm going from a visiontek 9200se pci 128 card to somethin preferrably 150 or less. If not this, any suggestions on something I can buy instore?

AGP 8x/4x/2x compatible
Up to 4 pixels per clock rendering engine
2 dual-rendering pipelines
NVIDIA® nView™ Multi-Display Technology
NVIDIA® CineFX™ 2.0 Engine

Platform: PC
Type of Video Card: 2D/3D Video w/TV Support
Slot Type: AGP
AGP Support: AGP 2X
AGP 4X
AGP 8X
Chipset Brand: NVIDIA
Chipset: GeForce FX
Installed Video Memory: 256 MB
Memory Technology: DDR-SDRAM
RAMDAC Speed: 350 MHz
Port Connectors: VGA
S-Video

Graphics Support: DirectX
Open GL

 

[SHAWN]

-Radeon 9800 from newegg is $185.
-Nvidia 6600 from newegg is about the same price.

Check it out.

 

[photikz]

Something I can buy in store.

BTW the above mentioned is a GeForce FX 5500oc Video Card, 8x AGP, 256MB DDR.

 

[Elbatrop1]

You can get a 9600XT for about $140 on newegg, and probably a little higher instore.

 

[aspire]

I bought my card from my friend for 150 and it's a eVGA 5600 ultra with ramsinks. Runs anything

 

[Chrono]

Chaintech GF 6600 for $122 on newegg
but its probably worth it to chip in a little extra for a 6600GT
XFX GF 6600GT for $189

 

[Nubius]

Chaintech Sucks, I have an FX 5700 from them and it's crap, it's the 2nd card and it's already dying within 6 months, the first one died within 2 months that I RMA'd.

I also personally think XFX sucks, leadtek, eVGA are couple good ones or even MSI, possibly BFG..


a 9600XT would out perform the FX 5600, it outperforms the FX 5700 for that matter.

 

[ApM]

Yeah I will Nubis, Nubis says he forgot to add in PNY as a good card manufacter. I'm just adding it here Save him from editing it, hey it's ok!

 

[Nubius]

Meh, don't like PNY

 

[Sport1031]

Chaintech Sucks, I have an FX 5700 from them and it's crap, it's the 2nd card and it's already dying within 6 months, the first one died within 2 months that I RMA'd.

I also personally think XFX sucks, leadtek, eVGA are couple good ones or even MSI, possibly BFG..


a 9600XT would out perform the FX 5600, it outperforms the FX 5700 for that matter.

leadtek is gread and you can trust them. I have a Leadtek 6600GT and it overclocker from 500 to 565 no problems. Been working great.