Good video card...
 

So I'm considering getting a new video card. Currently I have an nVidia GeforceFX 5200. I'm looking for something under $200 that will play Source games and World of Warcraft at a good looking setting. (I can't go over 1024x768 resolution in either engines without getting a bad frame rate at the moment and am no where near the max settings.)

Got any suggestions?

I'd have to recommend my card, the ATI X1900XT, whose architecture is about a year old but I can run all the current games remarkably well, including Crysis (on almost all high settings). You can find it on eBay, or the X1900XTX, for around $140.

Although, I think you should really save the money and go for the nvidia 8800GT or ATI HD 3870, which are in the $250 to $280 range.

so are the x1XXX being replaced by the HD cards?

I believe so.

And give this a read if you feel like it.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/12/...graphics_card/

is you card slot pcie or agp?

PCIE.

Thanks for the suggestions/advice, keep them coming.

Choose your flavor:

For Nvidia you could probably squeeze out an 8800GT 256MB for ~$200 but if you're wanting to stay under I would go with the 8600GTS 512MB.

For ATI I would go with a Radeon HD 3850 512MB. You can get them at pretty much $200 on the nose.

Those are going to be the best options for your price range and should give you some pretty good life.

Screw that just go buy yourself dual 8800 ultras and be done with it.