Best $50 AGP card? (eek)

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Or is that best of the worst?

I'm looking to buy time as much time as I can w/a system I'm handing down to my son. It's an MSI K7N2G that runs an 2500 Barton that still clocks to the 2800+ range w/o any fuss. I'm putting 1gig of mushkin ram in as soon as it gets in from warranty return. The power supply will be replaced w/a FSP300-60GLN from newegg. (the old TTGI/Super Flower PS is dying)

All it needs is an "ok" card for lightweight gaming. I've looked at the 6200 series and seen the 6600's as well. Any suggestions for the cheap long term fix here?

(edit cause of brain fart)

Do the 6600's still run too hot as I've seen on some posts/reviews on newegg?
 
6600GT is the best deal in that price range. if you have to buy it used.
 
How about the Biostar V6802XE21 ? It reads as brain damaged but functional card. Anyone tried/seen one?

on an ugly note:
I was on newegg last night and clicked calc shipping w/my zip...They've got a NJ office?<grr> NJ Sales tax & my opinions of any company dumb enough to be here in NJ killed the sale of the PS and the card.
 
it's honestly really hard to find a decent card for AGP for under $100, as you can see, there's a few used old cards around in the $75-80 range, but i just scored a XFX 7600GT AGP 580M card on ebay new (XFX RMA return still in box) for $95 shipped

i was just in your situation with an old AGP system myself

i know that's almost double your proposed budget, but for $100 you will get more than double the performance of a $50 card new because you wont get much for $50 unless you find a really rare stellar deal on a used card, so if you can go $100 you will get much more card that will last much longer and be more enjoyable;)
 
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