Video card issuesquestions 371
On 28 Jan 2006 10:13:50 -0800, "AcidX"
The video editing, flash and other "graphic intense stuff" will have negligible benefit from a video card change (addition).
The gaming will have a very large benefit.
Presumably this is a change from prior behavior? Also thou sayest not what version of Microsoft's resource hog-butt thee be using. The later the version the worseth the problems. Can be...
You have not mentioned the details of the rest of the system. Therefore there is no way to know how fast (expensive) a card you could benefit from.
For gaming performance a PCI card should be avoided, and AGP 4X is a minor limitation only, probably not much considering the system itself is aging to have only 4X slot. Something like a Geforce 6600GT is probably about as fast as needed, if not overkill (depends on the parts you didnt' mention). It may not make much sense to buy a faster card rather than looking at replacing whole system if ultimate gaming performance is important.
Modems are plenty useful, providing they're PCI... dial-up analog isn't going higher than 56K and for faxing, 14 or 28K is all many fax machines (on the other end) accept anyway. Old memory- depends on how old, though it hardly takes up any space and if it's at least PC100 there may be someone out there you know who could use it.
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