decent Nvidia card?

[Cold Dark Shadow]

never really looked into Nvidia stuff so what would about the same Nvidia card be to like an ATI 9600 pro or 9800 pro?

 

[RedShark]

nVidia 6600 plain or 6600 GT. I would get either of these before either of the two you mentioned, but their availability is currently low and they may be overpriced.

Also consider last gen 5700, 5900.

 

[rcf1987]

nvidia made the plain 5700 to compete with the plain 9600 and the plain 5900 to compete with the plain 9800