I have an AMD 2600+ (Barton) 333FSB 512 L2 Cache with an ASUS A7V8X-X Mobo and Kingston PC2700 512 DDR Ram.
I have now decided to get rid of my old Asus 3800C NV AGP Card.
Any advice as to what I should replace it with? My budget stretches to !50 Sterling.
TIA,
Vijay
Edit .. Corrected spelling.


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Asus 3800C? Was that a Rad7500? If it was you'd be in GF2GTS / GF4MX420 type territory so anything will be a BIG step up. However shopping for cards below £100 really cripples your PC's gaming perf.
In terms of new cards the FX5200, Rad9600SE, Rad9000PRO, Rad9200PRO are the best choices (of a bad bunch). GF4MX, Rad9200, 9100 and 9000 are a fair bit slower. You will find clock speeds and hence perf varies with these entry level cards so you may not even get the perf you should.
For 2nd hand cards you should pick up a GF4TI4200 if you can as they are as fast as Rad9600PRO and GF-FX5600ultra in raw 3D speed (you miss out on DX9 and AA+AF), but way faster than the sub £100 new offerings available. As said Rad8500 (inc 8500LE) are still good cards but again clock speed always varied a LOT for thse, ensure you are at least 250/250 (250/500 inc DDR talk). Rad8500 are still better even at 250/250 than the fully clocked Rad9000-9200PRO. GF3 can be an option for good raw perf. TI500 & original GF3 are equal to a Rad8500 while TI200 often o/c to similar speeds. GF3 like GF2 are VERY weak outside of gaming though, suffering from poor '2D' image quality etc.
£150 is more like it. For that money you have the following options ...
