a great card to buy online

[koolm1ke]

whats a great card to buy online for around $140-$160. sorta an ati guy personally. but will get nvidia if it's better in performance and maybe cheaper. i need something that 's gonna give me great frames per a seconde for games like. rainbow six, umm counter strike, and some other fps and such.

[Avg]

For that price I think you can get a GeForce 6600Gt.

[Yuriman]

I got my X700pro for about that price, but the 6600gt performs better.

Also, which rainbow 6 and which CS? If you mean the old ones... you could probably run them great with onboard video, or a used $30 geforce3.

[discobiscuits]

try to find a 6800np from that range so you might get a chance to get a softmod out of it or something.

[koolm1ke]

rb6 3 rvs and athena sword. uhhh the latest cs and some of the latest games. im thinking the 6600gt is looking good for now. nice specs, not really wonting to spend a ton of money on a vid card but what i listed before. thinking of getting it off of new egg or something.

[Yuriman]

Rainbow 6 and CS don't really take much of a video card, they can run on a video card from 1999, but you will really be glad you got a nice card in Farcry of Half Life 2.

I'd suggest suggest this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814133114

It will walk all over a 6600gt, and there is a chance you can softmod it to a full blown 6800gt.

[AlabamaCajun]

If you have to hold loyalty to ATI, then the 9800PRO or X800 would give you the best bang for the ATI bucks. Nvidias do rule in the Speed catagory. I just bought an X600 for CWhits, in transit now. My reasoning is that X600XT is a good card for a really low budget project until I move to the ATI FireGL7100. I'm sticking with ATI on this system since I have the MSI RS480IL an ATI XPress board that I feel will work better with ATI cards, it has 3 monitor capability (1 for onboard video and 2 on the GFX card). You can fine several compares on Toms, Madshrimps and Anandtech that run these boards against each other.