Quake III Arena	Source: ID Software

Quake III Arena is a First Person Shooter (FPS) that revolutionized gaming as we know it. Using multiple light sources and having graphics textures that can fill videocards, even after 3 years it's still able to bring a cutting edge system to its knees.

Quake III Arena MAX 1024x768 demo001
	Video Card	FPS	Ranking
1.	ATi Radeon 9700 Pro	307.7
2.	MSI G4Ti4600-TD	273.9
3.	MSI G4MX440-T8X	174.1
4.	Albatron GeForceFX 5200P	176.3
5.	Albatron GeForceFX 5200P (333/410)	192.9

Quake III Arena MAX 1024x768 nv15demo
	Video Card	FPS	Ranking
1.	ATi Radeon 9700 Pro	70.8
2.	MSI G4Ti4600-TD	77.3
3.	MSI G4MX440-T8X	72.4
4.	Albatron GeForceFX 5200P	72
5.	Albatron GeForceFX 5200P (333/410)	72.9

Gaming at 1024x768 is just fine with any of the videocards. Again the GeForceFX 5200 performs about the same as the MX440-8X.

Quake III Arena MAX 1600x1200 demo001
	Video Card	FPS	Ranking
1.	ATi Radeon 9700 Pro	177.7
2.	MSI G4Ti4600-TD	139.1
3.	MSI G4MX440-T8X	79.6
4.	Albatron GeForceFX 5200P	77.4
5.	Albatron GeForceFX 5200P (333/410)	84.6

Quake III Arena MAX 1600x1200 nv15demo
	Video Card	FPS	Ranking
1.	ATi Radeon 9700 Pro	70
2.	MSI G4Ti4600-TD	68.1
3.	MSI G4MX440-T8X	43.6
4.	Albatron GeForceFX 5200P	41.3
5.	Albatron GeForceFX 5200P (333/410)	47.8

At the higher resolution the budget video cards do not do as well.