Hrrmmmm.... depends a lot on what you'll be doing with it. For a dual-purpose graphics and gaming rig, any of the GeForce 2 Ultra's, GeForce 3, Geforce 4 etc cards will do nicely. Get the latest detonator drivers, and the latest patches for whatever card you buy. I may catch some flak from people sold on one brand or another, but from my experiences as a hardware tech, there doesn't seem to be a great deal of difference between one manufacturer of GeForce 4 vs another right now in performance. I tend to like CreativeLabs, but Leadtek, Hercules and others make nice cards. All of the ATI cards, including the FireGL series are nice cards. ATI seems to have a perrenial problem with their first generation drivers not working consistently on all platform specs, especially under Windows 2000 Pro, so you'll need to do a bit of research and make sure your motherboard and chipset and the ATI card will play nice together. In a slightly higher priced range, and more graphics only oriented... both the nVidia Quaddro and the 3DLabs Oxygen cards are excellent.

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