I recommend the more affordable option… I’m still rocking a geforce 6800gt from years ago, and it still does fine and well, about the only thing it doesn’t do on modern stuff is the extra fancy shizz. Granted, some games will look at that and go “i can’t have my pixel shaders and vertex shaders and AA as high as bleeding edge technology can get and still get as many fps as the number of miles light travels in a calendar year, i shall not run.” it can still render more than enough poly’s to keep my games happy (1.6, cs:s, portal, tf2, UT2k4, Tomb Raider: Aniversary, CoD 1, CoD 1: UO, etc.). especially if you’re gonna be sticking to cs:s and 1.6, there be no reason 
