VIDEO CARD POLL, poll Options

[Boog]

Reply with specifics, debating over which card to buy. I lookin to spend about 100. I only play mohaa so I just want to run it very well.

[ScarFace]

I have been using Nvidia's cards since my first comp and I have never had any issues with them(excluding GAME specific SUPPORT). And this myth about them over heating is false. My first video card was some GeForce 2 model and that card was outstanding. Followed by GeForce 3 which was also very good. After that I purchased the GeForce 4 Ti4200 with 8xAGP for which I paid about $270. This was excellent video card. I've been using this video card all the way till about 6 months ago. You will be able to play MOHAA with all the settings MAXED out with out any problems. Unless you are going to play with 1600x1200 resolution. But still you will be able to play with all the highs settings on. Also if you decide to play Doom 3 you will be able to on medium settings. If you have enough RAM you will be able to run it on HIGH. After this video card I bought the Ti4600 hoping to get some better results. I was very shocked to find out that the 4600's performance was almost identical to that off the 4200. There were a few benefits such as support for the 2.0 Shaders and such. Then the ATi's 9800 PRO came out. I did some research on it and I decided to buy it right away. Bought it, took it home, put it in the comp, start it up, and fuck nothing was happening. After quite a bit of problems I it started running. Now don't get me wrong this is great video card or atleast for $400 it was. It was good but not good enough. 6800 came and ATI's X series. but all these card were like $500+ dollars. Now recently Nvidia came out with the 6600 GT which kicked the shit out of the 9800 PRO and was only $199. So last weekend I went out and dished $250 for the video card because those motherfucking retailers wont sell it for less then $230 because "its so new." Anyway I took it home, put it in, fired up MOHAA. Fucking great. Check out COD and COD:UO both with oustanding results. Then I started up FarCry. This was a shocker, the 6600 GT was able to run it about 15-20fps faster then the 9800PRO which was pretty fucking impressive not to mention that I could also run the 3.0 shader with the new card. Next was MOHPA, now this is were I ran into some issues. All the textures on the sreen were blurred and webed. After wasting 6 hours trying to get some answers from the video card manufacturer and I was still nowhere. And then I finally figured out what the problem was, PA doesn't support this video card. Now that's just fucking lame. But luckily EA did help me by providing my with some AGP SiS drivers that made the game run but still didn't resolve much of the isssues. So after this little experience I started up Half Life 2. I also had some issues with this but not as bad as with PA. (Check out the OffTopic section, DISPLAY ISSUES)

As to say which is better you need to narrow it down to a specific game. Personaly I say for $100 you definetly can't go wrong with the Ti4200.