Looking for a different video card...

[weister42]

I have an Asus K8V Deluxe and an ATI 9600 All In Wonder but ever since the driver update the second video output is now purplish. I don't feel like trying to figure out the problem so I'm just gonna go ahead and replace it. Yaya I know this card can be overclocked to be fast as hell but I'm not that good with computers. I want to get a different card that does video only, unlike the All In Wonder which does just about everything but I don't use any of them. Remember I'm on 8x AGP and two CRT monitors but I'll get DVI-VGA adapters. What is a good card to get? I'll be using eBay because it's cheaper, don't care if it's new or used. I like to get something much more powerful than my 9600 AIW and can run Doom 3 in Ultra detail @1600 x 1200 or just something that I can notice the improvement right away. Limit at $150.

[SlOtH]

Look for a x800 if you want to stay ATI. You can snag one for under 100$ I imagine.

[weister42]

Back in my day the 9800 Pro was like the top shit, I've since lost touch with computers since they advance so much...I don't care for the brand, as long as it works good and its compatible with my mobo.

[Knave]

AGP is so three years ago...

[SlOtH]

It's either 100$ now, or 900$ for a newly built system. A x800 should handle D3 fine.

[Burningnun]

I'm not sure if this works on the AGP versions, but you can get the X800GTO and unlock a few pixel pipelines, overclock it and get the performance of the more expensive X800XTX.

I might not have those names right, but any kind of X800 will be decent.

[Beldar]

Id reccommend the Nvidia 6 series. I paid $100 for my 6600LE 256MB and its great. I had to make sure I had a powerful power supply, considering I had to plug it into the video card. But hey I can play BF2, HL2, and all that good stuff just fine.

Best $100 ive spent lol.

[usefulidiot316]

This (http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1779348&CatId=318) is about the best you'll get for AGP under $150. The 6800gs is a great card, because it's clocked slightly slower than the 6800gt, but since it's made using a smaller process, it can easily overclock enough to beat a 6800ultra. Also, Nvidia makes the only GPUs for AGP that can run SM3.0 without wasting money on the x1600 cards.

When compared to your card, the specs are

Pixels and Textures:
6800gs - 6 gigapixels/second 9600 - 2.1 gigapixels per second

Memory:
6800gs - 256MB at 33.6GBps 9600 - 128MB at 10.4GBps

DirectX:
6800gs - DX9.0c with SM3.0 9600 - DX9.0b with SM2.0b

The 6800gs also has some video excelloration for HD videos, where the 9600 does not. The All in Wander runs TV, though, and the 6800gs does not, but as you stated earlier, you don't use it, so you won't miss it. And running Doom3 on ultra quality requires 512MB of VRAM, and unless you want to spend $150 on a crap GPU with just enough memory to run just that one game at that one setting, I'd say, go with the 6800gs.