I recently bought a 6600 GT for about £120 (about $200?) and can easily play Doom3 and Quake 4 on high video settings. There's no need to buy the absolute best and most expensive cards to play the latest games. This card will do me for about a year at which point I'll buy whatever card is around at the time for a similar price.
You also mention having to pay for a MS Win license but both the games I mentioned above work with very little effort in Linux. Hopefully this will become increasingly common in the near future.
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I recently bought a 6600 GT for about £120 (about $200?) and can easily play Doom3 and Quake 4 on high video settings. There's no need to buy the absolute best and most expensive cards to play the latest games. This card will do me for about a year at which point I'll buy whatever card is around at the time for a similar price.
You also mention having to pay for a MS Win license but both the games I mentioned above work with very little effort in Linux. Hopefully this will become increasingly common in the near future.