Help! Need to Pick a new Graphic Card but ...

Arg, I'm not the one to ask. I shoped for one myself today and just kept choosing better and better till I couldn't afford it. So I saved the specs and will wait till I can...

Sigh

When it comes to this cards, I have no idea which one I should go with, everything else in a computer is a lot easier for me to pick the one that will meet my demands. I'm not sure what I have at the moment, I know is an ATI but can't remember the model right now and I'm not home, I'll check it up later tonight.

Seeing as you are going to be using mostly graphic intensive programmes and applications I would suggest that you go for the best spec card as you can afford.

Try and get 256MB of RAM on the card and then with that requirement get the best card you can afford.

Personally I have a GeForce FX5600 256MB card and cost me £100 (about $184) however this was about 6 months ago and there are much better cards available now.

It's all down to what takes your fancy at the time and what you can afford.

Thank you very much Kedge and welcome to A2K!

Nvidias Geforce 6600GT was released this last day or two (the AGP version, originally it was only PCI-Express).
I read a number of reviews about it, and the only difference between itself and a few of the higher end cards (like the 6800 & ATIs x800) is about 3 FPS and $200.

I'm buying mine (as well as the rest of my computer) at newegg.com for....I think it's $220.

It's a great price to performance ratio.

In the under $200 range you'd probably do best with a NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB.

If were looking for more horsepower and have more money you could start looking at the ATI X700 or X800 line. I just ordered a new PC the other day and was able to upgrade the video to the ATI X800 PRO 256MB for an additional $120 so I snapped that up!