ATI Radeon X1600 Pro (512MB, PCI)

Pros: Fast, Furious, and Friggin awesome

Cons: None, cept that I can't get 2 for crossfire

Summary: I bought the offbrand GeCube made version of this card because it was much cheaper. Same thing otherwise. Completely blown away by how this thing plays Oblivion, Battlefield 2142, and Blazing Angels. All on highest settings and this thing isn't even breaking a sweat. A lot of reviews I read on this card said it overheats. I played BF2142 for 3 hours straight the other night and when I stopped this thing was still cool, no joke. 512mb is a nice thing to have and PCI-e is the only real way to go. Buy this card if your looking for something priced well that works. P.S. - I render a lot of images and videos in Photoshop and After Effects and this thing makes it easy. I also have 2gb DDR2 XMS2 667mhz RAM and a nice proc 3.2ghz P4 not even OC right now. The card really helps with rendering though, my old card stumbled through it slowly, this sped it up a lot.