What video card for gaming?
 

Hey....

What video card do you guys suggest for a gaming machine? I'm not wanting to spend $450 for the top of the line but I want something nice for around $100. I'm not a huge fan of ATI, but I'm open to whatever everyone thinks.

Ideas?

my GE-Force 4 440 MX only cost £60 (not sure of $ conversion rate)
and along with my Athlon 1333 and 512Megs of ram, it still runs the latest games comfortably.

and i bought it months and months ago !!!!
go for the Second Newest nvidia card, (whatever that is)

I think NVidia has better performing low-end cards over ATI. Also, NVidia's driver support for Linux is way ahead of ATI's. In fact, I am considering dumping my Radeon 9700Pro for a GeForce 6800.

For $100 you should be able to get a GeForceFX 5600-series card. They're decent and will play any modern DX9 game. Check www.newegg.com, they have pretty good prices.

Sound advice...don't buy a GF4 MX for gaming...at the same price, nvidia has much better cards...if you can afford it, go with the 5600, if not a 5200 or 5500 is your best bet.

Especially for Linux, nvidia is much a much better choice than ATi.