rec.autos.simulators

I have an old system that I will be replacing within 6 months.
I just need some advice on a replacement Video card, that will give me a
reasonable frame rate with F1C, GPL etc.
I don't want to install a card that is overkill for the limited performance
of the CPU and the System.
I just wish to replace my old Video card to extend the life of my relic for
a while.
Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

My System:

Pentium 4 1.3 Gig  (800 Bus)
512 RD Ram
64 Meg NVidia GForce 2  ( Yes I know, stop laughing )

Darf

How about an ebay'd GF4 4200.  At $80 or so this is a good card.

rms

WHy dont you buy a card you could move over to your new system if you plan
on upgrading in 6 months or less anyway?

I agree with BIZ on this.  Second the GF2 card if you really knock it arond
the block, is a "not bad card"...  I had a tweakied out 1000mhz p2 system
(you know 100mhz buss).  I had a good gf2 mx.  I knew I going to build new
in a few month or so.  Is thing I discovered was a used GF4600 128 meg mem
card, so I grabbed it.

since I had no personal experience (but read posts everywhere that more or
less MX was great for under powered processor systems.  So I decided to put
that card into the old machine "for kicks" and was hoping agains hope I
guess.  I got very little noticable performance upgrade, as far as I was
concerned.  so it spurred me to build the 2.5 ghz machine much faster, FYI.
It is, the double edge sword of "new and better" you know <G>.

I just bought an MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 128mb DDR to upgrade from my
Geforce 2 mx/mx400 64mb card. Initially I bought an FX5600 but took it back.
The Ti4200 is awsome.It just works. No driver issues and I am running F1C at
1152x864 and GP4 at 1024x768 all settings full and very smooth.
Bios is set at 4x AGP. Antialiasing and anisotropic filtering at 0.Vsync off
and texture sharpening on.oh, im using nvidia 41.07 drivers.
Whats really cool is watching a Replay on my 32" flat screen TV. GP4 with the
2003 megapatch and the TV style replay really freaks out friends when they walk
in the room hehe .
I am very impressed and figure this will last me a while. The card will also
work with directx 9 it just wont access some of the new features as would the
FX series cards.
I am still using dx8.1.though. and windows 98se.My system isnt the greatest but
it is very clean and stable.
For the money, this is definately the best card IMO.

my system:
AMD Athlon xp1800+  (hi perf. settings. 1.553  ghz)
MSI  KT333 Ultra mainboard (via chipset AMI bios all updated)
MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 128mb DDR 8x AGP Video In/Out DVI-I
Soundblaster Audigy Gamer 24bit sound
Creative FPS1500 surround speakers
256mb Ram
Maxtor 40Gb HD 7200 rpm
Cheap cdrw
no floppy and a 350w power supply