"John Russell" wrote in message
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You should remeber that the graphics card dosn't do everthing related to
rendering an image. The CPU is also involved. It would appear that in your
last system it was the CPU which was limiting how well your old card could
work.Getting a faster card dosn't overcome that restriction. It's a
question
of balance. Most gamers learn to play "leap-frog" with the CPU and
graphics
card, replacing each in sequence.

Yup, that's right. My "sequence" for the last few years looks like this:
Upgrade to P2 333 and nVidia TNT
Upgrade to Dual Celeron 400 (not much of an "upgrade")
Upgrade to GeForce 2 GTS
Upgrade to Athlon 1 GHz
Upgrade to GeForce 4 Ti4200
Upgrade to Athlon 2.1 GHz (just the CPU)
....

/M