Vid Card Selection Help!!

I have a P4 3.0 Ghz HT with a gig of ram. I am looking at getting a new vid card so I can play Star Craft 2 and Crysis. I am looking at spending around $180. I have been looking at either the Nvidia 7950's or the Nvidia 8600's. It looks like the 8600's are more powerful all around except for the memory bandwidth. Which card would you guys recomend? I would like to have DX 10 for Crysis. I do not need DX10 if the 7950's are way better. I'm not getting a new computer or anything. I just need to know which graphics card would be my best solution. The requirements for crysis is only a 2.8 ghz P4 so a 3.0 will be fine.

thanks

You've already made a topic.

What the hell are you doing making another one? 

X1950XT.

7950GT.

8600GTS.

In order of best to worst in your price range. 

^ Tom's Charts are atrocious for being highly inaccurate... unless they fixed them.

I'd use GPUReview to compare video cards.

http://www.gpureview.com/