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Gawd
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Geez, it's been a couple years since I posted here...brings back good memories :p.

My brother-in-law needs a new video card for his desktop. I'm not 100% sure of the specs of his system, but it's a couple years old - not sure what processor, but I think it's ~2 GHz. Probably a P4? RAM is either 256 or 512 - again, not sure which kind. Actually I think it's an eMachines, not sure though. Big HD (not that it matters)...

Current card is something like an MX400? Needless to say, it doesn't run any current non-sports games with any success. He doesn't want to spend any more than necessary, as he really doesn't game much, but would like to play some games of mine like Splinter Cell, Godfather, BF2, etc.

I have an old GF2 Pro laying around - I'm guessing that won't be much of an improvement?

So for under $100, what would you recommend? TV out and all the bells and whistles aren't needed. Just browsing the board quicklike, it seems eVGA is an ok brand? Everything still much cheaper at Newegg than BB, CC, etc.?

Thanks a lot for any advice.
 
First off, I'd have him download Everest which will tell him what his specs are. Obviously he isn't really all that bothered about playing games on their highest settings, but if he indeed does have only 256 megs of RAM, that'll be a problem.

So without knowing the other specs of his computer, this 6600 is probably the best idea for him at <$100. If he's got 512 megs of RAM, while not ideal it would still let him play the games he'd like at reasonable settings. If he's running less, then DEFINETLY factor in another 512 megs of RAM (not very expensive either, ~$30)
 
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