What would be the best quality and price Video card for a Video gamer?

Right now I have an intigrated Intel Extreme Graphics 2. Its not that good. I'm relize how expencive VCs are now but, what is a nicely priced video card that has DirectX9 Vertex Shader or Pixel shader 2.0 support and a minimum of 128 MB Video ram that dosn't feed off the main computers RAM?What would be the best quality and price Video card for a Video gamer?The Intel Extreme Graphics 2 has performance close to that of NVIDIA鈥檚 GeForce2 MX400. I assume you have AGP 8x. The limit to the quality you can achieve will depend on how much you're willing to spend, although it wouldn't make sense to spend more than $50, because you should be looking forward to getting a relatively cheap AMD or Intel motherboard and a 64-bit processor with, of course, PCI-e.

Wouldn't it be nice if there were a convenient chart for graphics cards that would let you easily compare their performance when playing a selection of graphically intense games? There is! Go to the following page at Tom's Hardware, pick a game you really want to play, pick two processors that are within your price range, and voile, you'll know which to get:

http://tinyurl.com/3dazqk

And if you can, buy a more expensive, higher performing card that comes with a good rebate so that you get it for the price of a lesser performing card. Check out Newegg.com for the lowest prices, fastest service and best customer support.

Also, up in the right-hand corner of that web page you'll notice a list of other charts to check out, for CPU's and such. You might also want to check out their article titled, "The Best Gaming Graphics Cards For The Money: October 2007", in which they break them down into price ranges:

http://tinyurl.com/2fdmy6