Well the x1650 is crippled, the x1300 a rebadged x1600
joke, and the 
x1950 just way too much money while the x850 XT whips
the 1st 2 for $100 
less than the third IMO.

This based on benchmarks over at Tom's:

http://www.tomshardware.com/graphics/charts/

There are of course NVidia solutions, but not my
preference.


Wayne Johnson wrote:
> At 08:12 AM 1/2/2007, j maccraw typed:
>> I'll "limp" along happily with the x850 @ ~$200
given
>> that upgrading to
>> new mobo would mean dumping the card anyway.
> 
> Not that I'm taking sides or anything, I just
thought I'd mention that 
> I've been limping along with a X800 for the past
2yrs just fine but I 
> ain't no gamer that needs every FPS that I can get
neither altho this 
> AMD 4800+ X2 processor does a nice job of that with
the X800. I have 
> been tempted to take the nVidia 6800 out of another
machine to give them 
> a good comparison but I'm too lazy. FWIW I paid more
than $200 for the 
> X800 when it 1st came out. :-(


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