if you are going for a cheap but high performance card get the "Radeon SE"
it's basically a Radeon 64 DDR buth with faster RAM
I've seen them go for $135
very inexpensive for such a high quality card
it also has partial DirectX 8 Support while GeForce 2 only has DirectX 7
it has full OpenGL 1.2 support
and if you like to look at he nice new GUI they way it was meant to be seen I suggest you go with ATi
best damn image quality in 2d and 3d
(except for matrox and voodoo but then again, how well do they perform
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