Jaguarskx,
The card that I had before the ATI Radeon 9800 was an Nvidia GE with 64 meg of ram. This system is a Gateway 2000 XL Media system. It came with the Nvidia card. It is a 2 GHz system with 2 gig of ram, which I upgraded from 512 meg of ram. The ram is Rambus RD ram, which is very expensive as compaired to ram now being offered today. To buy 2 gig of new Rambus ram cost over $1000. I bought it on E-bay for $200, which is still high compared to other ram. My wife uses this system to play simple games, nothing that really requires a powerful video card. I just thought that for $15 used, I would give it a try. I recently put in a 400 watt PS so that I could upgrade to a newer video card, which most require 350 watt PS. I was looking for an AGP video card with 512 meg of ram. I saw a couple from Tiger Direct that I was considering. This system runs XP Pro with 2 internal drives and 2 external drives totalling 1 TB of disk space.
I no longer use this system, or at least very little, just my wife. My new system is a HP e9820t with Win 7 Pro 64 bit, a core i7 950 @ 3.07 GHz, with 9 GB of ram and a ATI Radeon HD 4850 with 1 GB of ram and a 1.5 TB hard drive, an Acer H243H 24" monitor, actually I bought 2 of these monitors, one for the new HP and one for the Gateway. Very good monitors. I'm very well pleased with this new system.
I was just upgrading my old Gateway for my wife and her games. Someone had suggested that I reinstall Windows but, I have 128 icons on my desktop, yes 128. I have so many programs on it that it would take weeks to reinstall all of them. When I go to Start and programs, the list is completely filled with 4 plus columns of programs. So you can see why I don't want to reinstall windows. Everything is working fine, I just wanted to upgrade the video card for my wife.
Any suggestions as to upgrade this AGP video card would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your time and input.
Foreman1943