Shoutbox

My advice.... buy a nice little Athlon64 or *shudders* a P4 and a nForce4 SLI Motherboard.  Then just get a GeForce 6600GT (or 2 for 6800U performance roughly) and if you got P4 you'll need DDR2 Memory too.

Basically:

Athlon64 2800/3000/3200
nForce4 SLI Motherboard (ASUS, DFI, MSI & ABIT reccomended)
GeForce 6600GT (or 2)
Use existing PC3200 (400MHz) DDR
Maybe a better PSU, something like 450W

or the AGP Route:

X800 256MB or 6800GT 256MB


Try to avoid X300, X600, 6200, 6200TC, 6600 (standard) and the 6800 (standard) as you can get better performance from an alternative.


The only things PCI-Express brings performance wise is SLI (Crossfire) & the fact that the top spec cards aren't available in AGP formats.  They do provide more available bandwidth but modern day games just don't need it, yet.