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Currently I am helping a friend build his first desktop (still stuck with his old Dell laptop, I'm afraid its just not up to par to handle WoW that well ). The one thing I'm having the most trouble with is the video card, having not upgraded myself for quite some time so I'm not up to speed with it all. He is looking to stay preferably under $100 and the motherboard he will be using is the Intel "D865GBF" i865G Chipset Motherboard. Any advice is always appreciated.

Buy a used 9700Pro

Radeon 9600, 256Mb. $102 shipped. Excellent card for the money. Should run everything just fine including HL2.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDe ... 295&depa=0

the 9600 will run WOW fine - I have a 9600 pro in my compaq desktop at work and it handles hl2 without a hitch as well....worth checking around at the geeks, etc. for a 9700 pro or 9800 pull (refurb) as well - they are faster...but a 9600 pro or better will work fine