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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zorlag" data-source="post: 451481" data-attributes="member: 1394">VideocardsIf you want so called "future-proof" videocard, I'll suggest one of these:1. Radeon 9700pro or Radeon 9700 128 meg- Fastest chip available at moment. Driver situation bit shaky, but getting better fast. Great picture quality and fast anistropic filtering (very good rendering texture quality). If you want to use highest graphics settings in games, this is your ticket.2. Geforce4 Ti4200, Ti4400 or Ti4600 128meg- Fast and reliable. Somewhat cheaper than 9700 radeon and drivers are more reliable. Poor anistropic filtering speed (quality is good) but has pretty good FSAA (Full Scene Antialiasing, smoothens out jagged edges in 3d games).3. Radeon 9000pro, Radeon 8500 or Radeon 8500le 128 meg- Good casual gamer and user cards. These have good picture quality, decent drivers and are very affordable. Speedwise rated they are: 8500 > 9000pro = 8500le (le is faster if you overclock).Other chipsets are either too expensive (Matrox Parhelia), have poor rendering quality (Sis Xabre) or too slow (Kyro II) to recommed. I suggest you buy card with 128 memory since there already are games that are faster with 128 memory than 64 (Unreal Tournament 2003, Jedi Knight II for example).Z.</blockquote>