Hey, need some help here. I'm planning on buying a new video card so I can do some PC gaming. Battlefield, Splinter Cell, Halo, and Far Cry are the games I am most interested in. People have told me, if I get a good card, I'll be fine with the rest of my specs, which are:



My budget is basicly $200 for a video card. What is the best I can get? I've been looking at this: $210, but I wanted to check around to see if you guys think this is a good choice, and if this is the best choice for my budget. Please help. Thanks.

sounds good to me. make sure you have a free power plug for the video card (like the ones to the hard drives/cdroms). also, the power supply should be like 300watts or more. (although, you may be able to get away w/ less).

$200 buys a lot of video card right now. if you don't want to spend that much, maybe you could just get the SE.
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...102-348&depa=0

You need make sure that your MoBo will accept the video card in question. I suggest finding out who made your MoBo (or calling eMachines up) and finding out if there are any issues between the video card you want and the Mobo.

Radeon 9800 Pro has been seen for about 200 these days.

Get the 9800pro I own that very one you are looking at and have been very happy with it. Bought it a year ago for $300. I also picked up a GeForce 5900 ultra 256meg on sale at CC for $160 AR a while back which is also a fine card. Look for crazy sales.

Make sure your motherboard has an AGP slot. You may also want to get a new powersupply as Emachines are usually pretty modest. Get one from Enermax, Fortron, Antec, PC Power & Cooling or the like.

What video card do you have now?

Cheapo that came with the computer. S3 Graphics I believe. Haha.

I added 512 MB of ram not to long ago.

Thanks for all the info. I believe I'll hold out til the end of the month and see if any more sales pop up. We'll see.