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agp card replacement

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I have a dell dimension 8200
1.7 mhz pentium 4 with a gig of ram, 2x/4x agp port with a geoforce2 mx 64mb's.
I am looking to upgrade the video card. Since this is the last upgrade I dont want anything too fancy (i.e. expensive) and basically anything i put is going to be better then my old video card. I want to stay with nvidia based cards if I can. I dont plan on playing any newer games, Im still playing operation flashpoint.
which one of these cards would be best for my system? I dont know much about video cards or video card companies. Basically all of these fall into my price range. If you can think of anything better let me know. Thank you.

XFX GeForce 6200 512MB
BIOSTAR V6802XA16 GeForce 6800XT 128MB
Diablotek GeForce 6600 GT (256 MB)
 
The 6800XT should be the fastest card out of the three, though I'll admit 128mb video ram isn't a whole lot. It is rather odd that out of the three cards you chose the slower cards have more video ram than the faster cards. You really don't want the 6200 in any situation. Between the 6600 and the 6800, the ONLY situation I could see the 6600 coming out ahead would be if you ran at a high enough resolution where the lack of video memory on the 6800 would become enough of a bottleneck to let the slower 6600 take the lead.

What resolution do you tend to play games at?

Edit: I know you wanted to stick with nvidia, but just in case, here is an alternative that is a similar price and much more well rounded in terms of the amount of Video Ram compared to the speed of the GPU, etc:

POWERCOLOR X1650PRO 512M AGP Radeon X1650PRO 512MB 128-bit GDDR2 AGP 8X Video Card - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131070
 
Depends on how much you want to spend, i would say if your looking at 80ish dollars, i would get a x2600 ati card.

if you are going to the sub 30 dollar range, the 6200 is good enough, and would offer an amazing upgrade over the geforce 2mx.

toms has a decent rating based on various card performance for comparing cards across generations.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-cards,1965-6.html

the 6600gt and the 6800xt perform at roughly the same rate
 
I dont max out the resolution at all. usually play at 1280x720. My monitor isnt that big either. its a 17" crt.
 
do you know the watts of the power supply of that dell maybe it wont take high end video cards
 
I got a BFG 7800GS OC I'm looking to get rid of if you're interested.
 
card in sig. 7950GT AGP 512mb w/ memory @ 1.4ghz.....theyre pretty rare now, and the only better cards if i recall are the 3850, and that 1950xtx some shit

my previous card was the 7800gs oc, and that thing was a beast, but this card is way more powerful
than the 7800
 
Be careful to get a 2X / 4X AGP card. Do NOT get a 4X / 8X AGP card thinking you can run it at 4X and be compatible. It is not. They are different voltage requirements and won't work in the older motherboards.

Trust me. Been there. It sucked.
 
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