"jeffc" wrote in message
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If it would be worthwhile, I'd like to add a new card to this system. It
works fine now for what I've used it for, but I'd like to get the max
performance in games. Having said that, I don't want to change anything
but
the graphics. In other words, I'm pretty sure it would be overkill to put
in a $500 graphics card that I can't exploit because the rest of the
system
isn't up to it. I'd be looking to get a budget price on an older card
rather than get a card that I can use again in a better system. I'll play
the most advanced games I can play (I don't mind buying last year's
games),
and then get a new system in a year or 2. (I also don't care to upgrade
the
sound right now, as I'm only listening through headphones.)

Note that one of the things I don't like about this system is that there
is
no integrated memory for the current graphics. It eats 32M of my system
memory that it reserves for graphics use. I'm assuming this will stop
when
I stick in a new card.

I would recommend the Ti4200 at around $80USD. It should be more than
adequate for quite awhile. It's not DX9 but even though it's an older card
it's still a good performer.

Another 256MB of ram in your system would help performance.


TMC



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