I'm currently running a Geforce2 Ti 64mb. I just upgraded to DirectX 9. Time for a new video card - but an inexpensive one, since I had to 'give unto Caesar' on April 15
I'm just looking for a decent improvement over what I have now, something that'll run DX9 programs, and something tthat'll at least run newer games like Doom3 (even if they run with some video features turned down.)


I was looking at a few Asus cards, basically the same, but different in core clock, and memory clock speed ( I assume faster is better, but there seems to be a small difference between these cards ?)

http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814121149 http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814121150

And also looking at a XFX card - never heard of XFX, are they any good?
http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150041


Thanks for any advice!!

Peter

Why not go 256:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?page=5&Nav=|c:318|&Sort=0&Recs=10

I have 3 PC's which I use for different things like playing games and video editting and the best cards I have found are the ATI Radeon cards. They have several models with just 3d graphics acceleration up to video in/out and stuff like that. Check them out.

Both
Tom's Hardware and
Anandtech
have reviews of cards, and I seem to recall that both have articles examining the performance of various cards in Doom 3.
The THGC Graphics Card Buyers' Guide also does a good job of summarising the various cards and chipsets out there.

Cheers
Ed