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Depends on the product your comparing to on the lower end models. I've heard that its the same as a GeForce2/3 with DX9 support. Hell, the 5600 will barely be able to use DX9 games. But if you only care about games released before, then a 5200 won't hurt. Just don't expect to be able to play high end games/future games as well.

And honestly, if you want to just play partially past games, just get a ti video card from nvidia.

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Nah. As long as one got a nice 5600 they'd be fine. My friend has one and I think it'll last him a while.

But I still say get the ATI Radeon 9600XT. :D

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for aboot 100-140$ CAN what decent gaming card could i get?

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Thanks guys!The 9600xt is pretty awesome! Im just curious...how long will this last me? Runs everything pretty well! :) buying call of dty tomm...AWESOME game!

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It should be fine for a good year or year and a half. Maybe longer, depending. But until Ati rolls out their next line of cards and slashes prices on the older models, you'll be fine with the 9600XT. I won't be upgrading until either mid this year or sometime in the fall/winter when ati rolls out their next line of cards and hopefully slash the 9800 prices.

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Yeah. I wouldn't worry about it for a while. You've got a good 2 years on that. And after that, you can still use it, you'll just have to be a tiny bit sparing on the settings for your games.