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Thanks D, that's helpful.

Zinglebarb: Well, I'd like to spend no more than is necessary to replace my current card; though if I could get a *significantly* better card than that for *very* little more, I'd do that.

Alex

The 9600GT is the lower cost card of the moment

Thanks for the help all.

Ok, so after some more searching I think that both cards I originally suggested would be worse than the x800. I don't need anything too much better than that, but I don't want anything worse either.

One possible replacent would be the GeForce 9600GT, at around £100 (dabs, here: dabs.com - Dabs Value GeForce 9600GT 512MB DDR3 DUAL DVI 650/1800 HDCP (9600GT-H5GTCD).) But this is relatively pricey for me, and will obviously way outperform what I have. (meaning that my AMD3200+ processor would probably hold it back even if I had the money to burn on it.)

Any other suggestions? I found a XFX GeForce 8600 GT, at around £47 (amazon, here: Amazon.co.uk: XFX GeForce 8600 GT - Graphics adapter - GF 8600 GT - PCI Express x16 - 512 MB DDR II - Digital Visual Interface (DVI) ( HDCP ) - HDTV out: Electronics & Photo). For comparison with the x800, see: Video Card Comparison - GPUReview.com. I'm finding it hard to tell, but I think from that page implies that the GF8600 is better. Is that right?

£50 is realistically about the upper-end of my price range, so if that is right, then perhaps this is a sensible choice?

Thanks again for any help

the 8600GT was a let down but it still wont be to bad

I think the high end 7 cards beat an 8600 tbh. I really have a disliking for it, 7950 would be perfect if you could use it?

Sorry, forgot to ask what OS you are using? If Vista and you are looking to go DX10 then get an 8800, even if you believe you will be held back from it's true performance you've got it if you need to upgrade the rest of your PC later.

If using XP then I still would suggest a high end 7 series over the 8600.