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Old October 28th 03, 09:03 PM
jeffc
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Default Recommend graphics card for this system?

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.

a.. Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition
a.. AMD AthlonT XP 2200+ Processor (1.800 GHz) with QuantiSpeedT
architecture
a.. VIA KM 266
a.. 60 GB HDD
a.. 256 MB DDR (PC 2100)
a.. 56K* ITU v.92 ready Fax/Modem
a.. AC '97 Audio
a.. S3 ProSavage8T integrated (1 AGP slot available for upgrade)