I've had more than a fair share of stability issues (lockups, VPU resets, weird display corruption, etc.) with ATI in machines over the years so I tend to buy/recommend nVidia cards and have been so far reasonably well served though their drivers aren't always great. It's a real shame that the market only has room for two major players as :(
Although the Play item is extremely good (I've one of those cards myself) I doubt they'll get anymore as it's an old model. These days the best value/performance I reckon is a GeForce 7600GT AGP from Scan -
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=499563 @ £113.96 inc VAT + del
It'll give the 7800GS a damn good run for it's money :)
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SAPPHIRE - RADEON 9550 256MB AGP
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This card is err... pretty rubbish so avoid if you can :) Any card that can be sold without active cooling (fan, heatpipe) really isn't going to be a great gaming card!
Aso, just looking at your shooting games thread.... The FX5200 is too lowley to play Far Cry with any of the [must have] detail on show so yep it's time to ditch it :) The 7600GT I suggested would do great however - look at this review ->
http://xtreview.com/review140.htm for example.
