Poor Noobie in need of help! (Video Card)

[KING ETHAN]

ok so im on a pretty cheap budget, and my computer is not too bad. im not looking for an extreme gaming rig, i just want to get a better vid card for my compaq. it has an integrated gforce4 MX 64mb video card in it. so i went on newegg and looked at the PCI video cards. my question is, which will best suit me? im play counterstrike for 4 years and im planning on playing cs for much longer and i am also into playing mmorpg games like MU Online/Eudemons Onine/Lineage2. So i would like a card that is DECENT, doesnt have to be super l337. so i see these cards

Radeon 9250
GeForce 6200
GeForce FX 5200

they have them in 128mb and 254mb for all of them. i dont know what that means but i want to know which out of all 3 of those will do me best. they are all same price ranged of like 70bucks. (i know im cheap, no job) plz dont tell me "just save your money up and buy a whole new rig" yeah thats obvious but i need this asap. and im not looking for an extreme gaming rig like evryone else is. i just want to cs! thanks =]

 

[Mazo]

If your only playing CS 1.6 then you shouldn't need any more than what you have at the moment. But the best out of those cards is the GeForce 6200

 

[KING ETHAN]

arigato mazo-kun!

 

[Mazo]

Not quite sure what that means haha. But your welcome anyway

 

[exclamatio]

id go for the 6200 out of those mate, will be super cheap and more than play all those games

 

[Vitaminz]

well the 6200 run smoothly in Worldo of warcraft?

 

[frozenrat]

Depends on your settings, WoW really isn't as hardware demanding as alot of people make it seem..But it still does require a decent machine..

 

[Mazo]

Don't expect more than 10-30FPS on WoW with it.

 

[kip0130]

geforece 6600 FTW

 

[Dios]

I have a 6200 and it works nicely, you can play NFS Carbono, S.T.A.L.K.E.R and all other games, maybe not at highest res and details but you CAN play ANY game in a 6200 (not the gay turbo cache one!). Not in a fx 5500 tho. I have one of those and it wont work that good.

I changed to a PCI-E GF 7300gs and it works 10x better and its the same price, if you have PCI-E go for a newer model.

 

[Sardaukar]

I woudl rather highly recommend a:

Geforce 6800GT

or a...

GeForce 6600GT



heck, if my current older 6800 gt wasn't in use in an older system of mine, iw ould sell it to you for 30 bucks including shipping.. put it to soem good use

 

[Vitaminz]

i think you should :O

 

[kip0130]

I woudl rather highly recommend a:

Geforce 6800GT

or a...

GeForce 6600GT



heck, if my current older 6800 gt wasn't in use in an older system of mine, iw ould sell it to you for 30 bucks including shipping.. put it to soem good use

AGP??

 

[KING ETHAN]

okay lets not get off topic here.. thanks for all the comments guys! and thank you sardaukar but i didnt see any 6600 or 6800 for PCI, i dont have pci-express, only pci. thanksss again

 

[ShyNemo]

WoW doesnt require that much..Lol.

 

[Mazo]

More thread necromancy =/

 

[Ytys Vynsan]

Question
How much have you got to spend on a graphics card?
What connection do you have on your computer for gpu cards (Pci-E or AGP)?

 

[Mazo]

Guys, this thread is like half a month old. I doubt the OP hasn't made a choice by now.