Do some research on www.tomshardware.com & www.extremetech.com The Geforce 6200 is a scaled down version of the 6600/6800. I think I read that the 7200? is going to go on retail any day now at around $100 or so. I have a 6600 which is a bit slower than a 6800. The 6800s are being replaced/phased out by the 7800s. Also, most decent games need 128mb, and are starting to use 256. However, only a few, high end games use 512 and only for their absolute best settings. I'm pretty sure that Bryce doesn't benefit much at all from a good video card, Bryce is constrained by the CPU. If you are running a 1.6ghz machine, which is well out of date, spending more than $100 or so on a video card is a waste of money because any game that might benefit from a higher end card will be limited by the slower CPU. As a side note, if you have a 1.6ghz machine then you no doubt have an AGP slot for the video card (or PCI). PCI's are obsolete and you won't find many decent video cards there anymore. AGP is quickly going obsolete in new systems (almost entirely except really low end/inexpensive). The AGP is still selling a lot of replacement cards because of the huge quantity of people with 1-3ghz machines at home. A number of vendors have managed to find ways to make the high end cards work in AGP, however, Nvidia & ATI are focusing most of their efforts in making their new chips work on PCI-Express (PCI-X?). Hence, spending $250+ on a high end AGP card a) won't help much for rendering now b) won't help you much on gaming since your 1.6ghz machine is CPU limited at that point c) when you do decide to build/buy a new machine in 6-12+ months (lets assume post January when MS Vista comes out), you will probably end up buying a dual core chip, probably 64bit, and it won't even support AGP, just PCI-e. Of course, this means you can't just yank your fancy new, less than 1 year old video card out of this box and put in the new one if you build it. My suggestion, buy the 6200 for $70-120. Or a 6600 or 6800. But don't spend a lot (you can price shop at www.pricewatch.com).