I want a recommendation on a new video card?

I've been looking for a new video card since the one that came with my computer is crap. its a nvidia geforce 6150se nforce 430, my computer specs are

vista premium

250 gig hard drive

Amd athlon 64x2 dual core processor its 3800+ which is 2 megahertz, and i recently added 2 more gigs of ram so its 3gigs

ive been looking at aEVGA GeForce 8600 GTS Video Card - , 256MB GDDR3, PCI Express, SLI Ready , (Dual Link) Dual DVI, HDTV, Video Card, i rarely play games and im really confused about these cards is it compatible and do i need to get a better power source, this is the most advanced i want to get so if any of you have recommendations on cards that are cheaper ill take your advice.|||Well, a GeForce 8600 is really made for gaming, EVGA GeForce 7600 should be good enough for your non-gaming use. About $80 from TigerDirect. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/…|||i have the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS and it's worth it|||go to one of those wholesale computer parts shows they have at convention centers and you can pick up a pretty good used card for 5 or 10 dollars.|||Go with ATI. I've used about 10 of these cards dating wayy back to windows 95. One time I bought a NVIDIA 5200FX card for a first time & it never worked right. Its sitting in my junk bin right now. I couldnt get it to function right with the latest drivers & directX upgrades. I've seen several computers with graphics issues that run these. I dont see how companies get away with selling these in high dollar machines. Pound for pound ATI cards are cheaper & work easier with all sofware; including games.|||get the 8600, i think u need to upgrade ur powersupply to 500 watts. i think if you go any higher than the 8600 your processor will bottleneck it|||if you have pci-e 16x slots on your motherboard, you could get the 8600, although it performs poorly compared to most other cards in the price/performance trade-off. i recommend you get the 7800 or 7600, they're great cards, and you probably wouldnt have any problems with them and your power supply, a typical 300Watt-350Watt PSU can run those fine.



if you really like DirectX10, get the 8800 gts or wait til the end of october to get the 8800gt. or ATI's r670 cards. i hear they're gonna be great.