What is the best graphics card out there thats $200 or less? Im thinkin of buying an ATI Radeon X700 AGP, is their N E thing better in that price range?

How about the Geforce 6600GT or plain vanilla 6800? ASUS A7N8X-X Athlon XP 1800+ 8.5 x 200MHz 1280MB PC3200 2.5-3-3-7 Asus A9550GE/TD 128MB WinME/WinXP Pro SP1

Agreed, but you may want to stick with ATI if you're obsessed with Half Life 2. Nvidia cards at that price range however are better cards currently overall. "Pat Buchanan, Bob Novak, and G. Gordon Liddy don't like Mark Felt. Mark Felt is truly a great man."

I can not agree more with the above, especially hero's statement regarding Half-Life 2. I switched from a 9800se(unlocked all 8 pipes)to a 6800 (unlocked all 16 pipe lines) and I get the same preformance (same res, and detail level). But I do have to admit HL2 does looks noticeably better with my 6800 as opposed to 9800se, not significantly, but noticeably. In regards to all other games concerning prefromance the 6800 (around $160-$220) beats all last gen cards HAnd down, 3 to 4 times faster from my observations. Anyway, the x700 line of cards are not available in AGP fromat, sorry :-( I would strongly go with jam's advice here, the 6800 over the 6600gt any day. the 6800 comes stock with 12 pipes thats four more then the 6600gt, plus there is always the chance to unlock the 4 locked ones! So as far as preformance with your budget these cards provide the best bang foy your buck! CHIPSET---i865pe CPU--------Prescott 2.8ghz @ 4004Mhz 286x14 FSB---------@ 1144Mhz RAM-------512x2 in dual config @ 430mhz GPU--------PNY 6800 16x1,5vp

eh, well the X700 is a HL2 Card, but i can say that it is not worth the money, http://newegg.com or http://zipzoomfly.com you will find alot of cards cheap there, i found my freind a 6800 under 220$$$ Intel P4 3.0ghz 768 Ram ddr2 pc 3200 120 gb HDD X300 PCIe 520 PSU

"Anyway, the x700 line of cards are not available in AGP fromat, sorry :-(" Yes they are, I have the X700Pro AGP BTW undercoverbrother23, are you planning on using the card in another system or is it for your HP rig, if it is, you better start rethinking your preferences in regards to the cards you are looking at. List of lists

Good point Sabertooth. I notice that the CPU isn't mentioned, so it's possible a higher end card may be bottlenecked...& the make/model of his current card isn't mentioned either. If this is for an HP, it's possible that it even doesn't have an AGP slot. ASUS A7N8X-X Athlon XP 1800+ 8.5 x 200MHz 1280MB PC3200 2.5-3-3-7 Asus A9550GE/TD 128MB WinME/WinXP Pro SP1