I have been playing computer games for several years now (mainly counter-strike). I use a GeForce4 Ti 4800, i have used a 4200 and give 100fps on counter-strike i couldnt tell you the preformance for other games. The Radeon cards are very good, they provide equal quality and preformance. I have heard of cases where the Radeon cards have not worked maybe this was an isolated case i dont know. My prefernce would be the 4200.
I'm looking at getting an entry level video card, and have narrowed it down to a GeForce4 Ti 4200, and an ATI Radeon 9200.
The classic question remains: ATI or nVIDIA?

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