Best Sub $100 nvidia pci-express card

Anyone have suggestions on what the best Card would be to use with an Asus M2NE Mobo / Athalon 64 combo? Right now i'm eyeing a PNY Geforce 7300GS PCI-E w/256mb. I won't really be doing any gaming, mostly graphic design and maybe PVR in the future. Is 256MB overkill or is 128MB sufficient? Trying to build a budget but quality rig that will last.

If you want to be able to have very good 3D performance and don't mind ATI, go for the Radeon X800 GTO 128mb. Still under $100 and performs much better than the Nvidia 7300GS.

I thought a large memory size was only useful when running at high resolutions (in 3D). More important is the GPU clock speed and memory access speed on lower end cards. From what I remember.

On a card that slow 256MB of texture memory won't matter much if at all. I'd suggest going with a faster GPU and not worry about the amount of memory. Companies like to jack up the texture memory since the average consumer will buy the computer (product) that has bigger numbers even if it isn't faster. Why does it have to be an Nvidia card?

Edit: You may want to check out this link. Also, you may have gotten a better response if you had posted this under graphics cards rather than nvidia in the forums.

-mcg

When you are talking about faster GPU's, do you mean "Core Clock" or "Memory Clock"?

Yes it is compatable with your motherboard.
Either of these cards will work. The 256MB version has a slightly faster core clock (392 v. 400) and a much faster memory clock (700 v. 980). The 256MB version also has a $10 rebate which puts the price at $99.99, just in your price range.