Good graphics card for light gaming around $75 ( Canada )

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Kayen

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Any suggestions?
Games i play: WoW (maybe), Maplestory ( lame i know but passes time ) , possibly counterstrike, StarCraft 2 / Diablo 2 (when they're released...).
Possibiliy i might move on to better things depends how the performance of my pc is after upgrades.
Current rig is horrible for gaming so all i play is maplestory.

Anyways what's a good / decent video card for around or below that price range?
What i've seen for around $75: GEFORCE 8500GT512 DDR2, RADEON HD 3650 512MB, RADEON HD 2600XT 512MB.
 
I don't know what the exchange rate is, but these are some of the best cheap cards I could find.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Productcompare.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010380048%20106791921%201067928607&bop=And&Order=PRICE&CompareItemList=N82E16814130085%2CN82E16814150229%2CN82E16814150258%2CN82E16814127286

I would definitely go with the 8600GT. It is perfect for light gaming, and the overclocked ones are even good for some high end games. If not you can always max out old games. Just make sure you get a card with GDDR3 RAM.
 
Well i found two 8600 GT's , there's one with 1024 mb of memory (doesn't indicate) for $90 (Asus), and one with 256m GDDR3 for $100... i may have ot save up more thoough , but which would be better of the two?
And i'll check out the Radeon HD 3650 too
 
taylormsj said:
Dont even look at the 8600GT, it is poor !!
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It's also cheap and good for a light gamer.

I have the MSI 8600GT, it's in the list that I linked to you. I can play TF2 completely maxed out. I have Company of Heroes maxed out in DX9. I can also play Crysis at 1440x900 and get 20 fps. Now that's not the greatest, but if you're not going to play Crysis you don't need anything better. Just get a card with a high clock speed and good reviews.

As for the memory, since it's only a 128-bit memory interface, you wouldn't need more than 512MB RAM. 256 suits me just fine.

The next step up is the 9600GT which performs about twice as good, but costs around $130. 8800GT is even better but costs around $170.

All in all, the 8600GT is a bad card in that you don't get much performance to price. But if you don't need the performance you don't need to get anything better.

If you ever have the money, this is the cheapest high end card I could find. It will basically run everything and it's superclocked, allowing you to run games in the future.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500006
 
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