New Video Suggestion Please?

[Seduction]

<p>Hiya, all.</p><p> Building a new system to the tune of: Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 2.13GHz</p><p>2GB 800MHz ram</p><p>Gigabyte GA-965p-DS3 MB</p><p>Am not looking at spending 300+ on a graphics card, but I'm looking for something that runs decently. I'm used to playing on a ATI mobile radeon X600 on my HP zd8000 notebook, so I'm certain I can find something that outperforms it easily. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p> I'm reading a lot about the BFG nvidia 7900GS OC (which has a great rebate atm, making the card like 100$), but also hearing about 8600GT and ATI X1950 Pro cards for about 100-200$.</p><p>My largest concern right now is the performance of EQ2, so I'm pretty open right now to entertain suggestions on either a specific card or perhaps even a "Go ATI" or "Go nVidia" vote.</p><p>Thanks in advance for any information. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[sfarugger]

<p>Seriously, anything over a 7600 is overkill.   I'd get the 7900 and be happy <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Wingrider01]

Seduction@Runnyeye wrote: <blockquote><p>Hiya, all.</p><p> Building a new system to the tune of: Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 2.13GHz</p><p>2GB 800MHz ram</p><p>Gigabyte GA-965p-DS3 MB</p><p>Am not looking at spending 300+ on a graphics card, but I'm looking for something that runs decently. I'm used to playing on a ATI mobile radeon X600 on my HP zd8000 notebook, so I'm certain I can find something that outperforms it easily. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p> I'm reading a lot about the BFG nvidia 7900GS OC (which has a great rebate atm, making the card like 100$), but also hearing about 8600GT and ATI X1950 Pro cards for about 100-200$.</p><p>My largest concern right now is the performance of EQ2, so I'm pretty open right now to entertain suggestions on either a specific card or perhaps even a "Go ATI" or "Go nVidia" vote.</p><p>Thanks in advance for any information. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p></blockquote>depends on what you want, if you plan on installing Vista to run DirectX 10 games then go with the Nvidia 8XXX series cards, from what I can see Nvidia is the only cpmp[any that has low cost DirectX 10 certified cards on the market at the moment. Providing your motherboard can handle PCI Express, other then that go with the 7900 series card