Quote from nikimere :

Cool, thanks for the help. It's my birthday in a few days so this will be going on my list!

New card will for sure make a big difference. You want to have at least 4xAA plus other quality features. I recommend you to do some reading on the forums regarding ATI problems with AA before making a decision.

Quote from romus74 :

I recommend you to do some reading on the forums regarding ATI problems with AA before making a decision.

I've seen the threads, but never had any such problem here. I'm guessing it probably depends on card and OS.

FX5200! I think you may have been underestimating the progress that GPUs have gone through over the years (much faster than CPUs). A quick google for benchmarks tells me that a 8800 GT is about 18 times faster than your card.

I would always suggest ATI for bang for buck rigs. Even the most powerful gaming computers I've seen have them. Other than the ones that have Nvidia's latest monster.

However, I would be careful. after AMD bought ATI, things haven't been going so smoothly as far as drivers. you should be safe if you are PCI-E, which you probably are.
But ATI is realy hurting lately because of AMD.

I recently bought an HD2600 512mb pro AGP, Since I coulden't afford to upgrade my motherboard. I can't get curtain games to play because ATI (AMD idiots actualy) can't get there drivers to work properly.

Quote from DragonCommando :

...because ATI (AMD idiots actualy) can't get there drivers to work properly.

What a load. The people writing drivers now are exactly the same people writing drivers before. If there are in fact more problems now than before (seems about the same to me), that's purely coincidental.

you obviously haven't been on the forums at the web site then.
AMD has there hand in everything ATI is doing right now.

I never had a problem with drivers before AMD took over, now it's a complete mess.
Even if it is still the same people, AMD probably has there hand in there somewhere.

Infact, I've never had a problem with an ATI card ever, untill now ofcourse, and I've had many. ranging from the first 2mb RageII, and 4mb Rage3d up to what I have now.

this saturday i buy a Geforce 6200 Gamer edition =P
I hope is work fine in Lfs
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Quote from DragonCommando :

Infact, I've never had a problem with an ATI card ever, untill now ofcourse,

Well here's my anecdote: I've had plenty of problems with ATI drivers for a number of years (Radeon 9800), just as I'm having some now. ATI's reputation for poor drivers isn't completely undeserved. That said, I've had my share of problems with Nvidia drivers too (their GLSL compiler sucks donkey balls), so all in all it's a toss up. Drivers suck, period.

It was so much better when games ran directly on hardware. like doom, duke nukem3d and the like, as long as you had the hardware, you could play it. The only thing that needed drivers was your mouse and CD rom drive (sometimes).

We're getting closer to that with every hardware revision. AMD is working on Fusion which will incorporate the GPU in the x86 ISA, Intel has that whole Larrabee thing that no-one really knows what is but expects to be a GPU-ish monstrosity, Nvidia have their own GPGPU thing (CUDA) they're certain will change the world and Sony/IBM has the Cell which, barring a few brain-dead design choices, is more or less what CPUs will end up looking like in the future.

At some point all this will merge back together with the CPU under a standard ISA, thus making graphics APIs and drivers little more than standard code libraries, and all will be well in the world again. (Until the next accelerator fad finally manages to grab a hold in the market. Anyone for PPUs?)