   enough with the lies...
  I need a second video card (this one needs to be pci) that will run Monitor B and the TV. The one I have in right now is like half as old as I am and just aint cutting it anymore.The cards I''ve been looking at are the 9100ati, 9200ati and 5200nv. All my friends say the 9100(8500) owns the 9200 because it has superior pixel shaders. All the of benchmark website ive been to says the 9200 owns the 5200 and that the 5200 owns the 9100. I''m so confused now, I don''t know what the hell to do. My budget is a hundred bucks and all I want is a nice pci 128mb video card that I can do 3d modeling and slight gameplaying on- say quake3/gta3. I figured the only place I''ll get a straight answer from is gamedev''s game developers. Putting nVidia/ATI prefrences aside, because I dont perfer either, I just want to know, which is the strongest all-around-card that I should get? 
  The 9200 is better at most things than the 9100, but pixel shaders are teh sux0r. Overall, though, I''d be tempted to go with the 9200 anyway. It''ll be better for 3D modelling.If your budget is $100, though, don''t bother with either of them. Some GeForce FX 5600s are now available under a hundred dollars, and they''re quite nice.   "Sneftel is correct, if rather vulgar." --Flarelocke ;  excuse me, why is 9200 pixel shader teh sux0r? because I just bought one 2 months ago... ;  How can a video card own another video card? Don''t you mean that you own it? Or your cousin owns it or something? Does your cousin own it? If so, mabye you could just borrow it from him and try it out for yourself. Then if you liked it, you could buy one for yourself, and then you would own it. I hope you are less confused now. ;  Take a look at ATi 9600 and ATi 9600SE (slower variant).  They both have higher performance then the ATi 9200 and NVIDIA counter parts.  Still in the ~100 range. ;  DONT GET THE nVidia 5200FX I GOT ONE! HOT! SLOW! I HAD TO REPLACE THE FAN BECAUSE IT KEPT OVERHEATING! LOUD! SO LOUD IT KEPT ME UP AT NIGHT! DONT BUY IT! ITS A FLOP!thank you for your patients as i broke one of the internets highest rules.    ;  no 9600 pci though ;quote:Original post by Uthman  no 9600 pci though   Forgot about the PCI thing but makes sence, PCI is too slow to feed the card.  Then I would suggest the ATi 9200, as a previous poster said FX5200 sucks.