Video card opinions! HELP!!!

[privategomez]

Hi. I'm looking for a new video card cause my stock one just isn't cutting it anymore. I want at least 70-80 fps in smoke or something... or an average of 100 fps. I don't have a ton of money either so just give me your SUGGESTIONS (more than 1) and I'll try to find something on craigslist or ebay. Thanks.

Edit: How many fps will a Geforce fx 5200 get me? And are they any good and how much are they new?

[Herr Klugscheisser]

What do you want to play exactly. You can do far better than a 5200, not worth it really. Figure out what you are willing to spend and go from there. I just gave a coworker my old 5600 as it's worth next to nothing these days.

It also sounds like you have a older rig (guessing by your 5200 comment) and you wouldn't want to spend much anyway because a good card would be bottlenecked and you would never see it's true potential anyway.

[privategomez]

I play Americas Army, Red Orchestra, MoHAA, Battlefield 2, Battlefield 2142, Counter Strike, etc. And I want to play airborne demo but my video card isn't good enough... I really just want a good deal. I want my graphics to be maxed out and have at least 70-80 fps. I basically just want opinions and why that video card is good and stuff... But I NEED TO KNOW THE FPS to. But yeah... Thats it.

[Goody.]

The Geforce fx 5200 is ok and will see you right in most of the games you have listed.
On full Graphics I get around the 150 mark for Soldier of Fortune 2 and Medal of Honor War chest.
Battlefield 2 though is a different matter, on its lowest settings i get around the 40 mark and all these are on 1024x768 settings.
A geforce fx 5900 will be cheap and do the job. it has 256mb of mem built in and a quote from wiki

Swapped hardwired DirectX 7 T&L Units + DirectX 8 integer pixel shader units for DirectX 9 floating point units. Introduced a new feature called 'UltraShadow', upgraded to CineFX 2.0 Specification.

[privategomez]

Originally Posted by goody10

The Geforce fx 5200 is ok and will see you right in most of the games you have listed.
On full Graphics I get around the 150 mark for Soldier of Fortune 2 and Medal of Honor War chest.
Battlefield 2 though is a different matter, on its lowest settings i get around the 40 mark and all these are on 1024x768 settings.
A geforce fx 5900 will be cheap and do the job. it has 256mb of mem built in and a quote from wiki

So your saying with the graphics maxed out on all those games I mentioned that video card would be good. How many fps would I get on those games? Which game would I get the lowest fps on? And I'm concerned about Americas Army, how many fps would I get on that with that card?

[Goody.]

You would get the lowest fps on BF2 with fx 5200. Like i said i get around 40 on the lowest settings which is playable but you should consider the 5200 as a starting point and aim for the latest model you can afford.
I have a fx 5200 and i am looking to upgrade as the newer games are simply to much for it.
But as i have a agp port and not PCIe then my options are limited.

[privategomez]

I mainly play MoHAA and Americas Army... How many fps would I get on those do you think?

[Goody.]

Again on a 5200 i get 150 fps on mohaa. I have not played American Army but just for you i will download it tomorrow and test it.

[-Slick-cRiSsI]

what does "I don't have tons of money" means for you?
50$
60-70$
Around 80$

Well here's some card you might want to take a look. These cards are considered like 'cheap' now but they will do the job for MoH and probably AA too.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130188
GeForce 5200 FX

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...2E16814141018R
GeForce 6600

Hope to you to choose I guess

Newegg.com - EVGA 256-A8-N313-LX GeForce FX 5500 256MB 128-bit DDR AGP 8X Video Card - Retail
GeForce 5500 FX