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I am building a new machine and need a little advice. I will be going the amd route and will be buying the new motherboard with the kt400 chipset, at least a xp2200 processor, 512ddr3200(to start), etc, etc. I will be added some new periferals and cannablizing others. I am currently running a gf2pro vid card. I want to wait to buy a top notch vid card so i can take advantage of the 8x agp (when it comes out) but I dont think the card I have will please me with the new system.

Is there a good intermediate card I can pick up in the mean time. The gf3 is a good card but nvidia is still pretty proud of them and I dont want a MX-anything. Is the radeon 9000 any good? Price watch has them for $70. How about the 8500? What do they compare to in the GF line?