the video card is a 256MB nVidia Geforce 7300LE TurboCache  how good and or bad is it.
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It's not bad, but if you're a gamer looking for more frames/sec, you may want to consider a graphics card that supports SLI(scalable link interface, it allows you to hook up two graphics card to share the load).\n\nHowever, the motherboard will also need to support SLI.\n\nBut, otherwise, that video card should be just fine.
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check and compare specs and prices. know what you want your card to do. i picked up a nvidia geforce 6600gt for around your price and it works fine for me. i also understand if i want to play some of the newer games coming out i might need to get a better card. but for now this one does great for me. keeps up with multiplayer games and works great when i play games offline. \n\n   look at whatever games you have or are going to get and see what they recommend, and get a card a little better then what they recommend so it isn't obsolete to soon.\n \n   P.S. check out  www.newegg.com  there prices are good and ships fairly fast. also you can compare and read others views on the items you are looking at.
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Radeon 9200 SE is getting kind of... old. Therefore, the card itself might be bad. Otherwise, it could be the drivers. \n\nLook into a newer card for a decent price. You can get something that is 1-2 yrs old for less than $65. And, it will change everything for you.\n\nS.
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YIKES, anything other than onboard video!!! Use the Geforce 2 with the newest NVIDIA drivers and you will far surpass anything the SIS chipset could offer. Then upgrade as soon as possible.
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It depends on what you will use it for. Games, business, etc. It also depends on on your motherboard. Does it have PCI, AGP, PCI-Express. If it has PCI-Express, get a video card for that particular slot. Me personally, I stick with NVidia. You can't go wrong with either a NVidia or ATI card. As for the best and cheapest, start buying Maximum PC. They do Vs. features which will help with taking the guesswork out of deciding which video card is best for you. Good luck!
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To be honest, it depends on your primary need for a video card.  Some programs run better on Nvidia, because that was what they were designed around. Some for ATI, for same reason.  I reccommend taking a look at the programs you plan to run, and see which card will work best for you.
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I tried the Vista Beta on a gForce FX5500 with 256MB of RAM. I would not go any lower than this, and even then you will probably have problems with anything but simple games.\n\nNewegg.com, tigerdirect.com, etc. etc.
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Well u can get a Geforce 5200FX 128MB or 256MB to get very gud performance. Check out nvidia website for more details
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The 64 MB is better.\n\nIf you ask me though, they're both horrible cards. I hope you don't plan on using it for gaming.
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Hmm.. It looks good, expecially if you want to do many things with it. You should ask if they offer a 7200RPM hard drive instead of a 5400RPM other then that the specs seemed to be fine. \n\nAbout the 2 year warntee worth the investment. Computers somehow tend to break after the first year. Protect your investment. 3 years they charge way to much.
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IF you're a gamer, then there are better cards out in the same price range as an nVidia 6600GT.  Here are a few: the non-GT version of the 6800: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=ENE&N=2010380048+1067909573+1069609639&Subcategory=48&description=&srchInDesc=&minPrice=&maxPrice= or the X1600Pro: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=ENE&N=2010380048+1067918889+1069609639&Subcategory=48&description=&srchInDesc=&minPrice=&maxPrice=  \n\nEither of these cards will outperform a 6600GT.  The 6800 has twice the pixel pipelines (which is more important than core or memory speeds), and the X1600Pro has 3x the pipelines.  I've seen benchmarks, and in very few games does the 6600GT even come close to those two cards.\n\nedit: the 6600GT's aren't $100, they are $140-150: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=ENE&N=2010380048+1067910550+1069609639&Subcategory=48&description=&srchInDesc=&minPrice=&maxPrice=
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An 8500 is worthless if you want games to play well.  What price range are you looking at?\n\nI'd say a decent, not great, card would be a 6600 or a 9800 Pro.
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although it isnt, i like to think of a video card as being like a bi-lingual translator. the better translator u have, the better you'll be able to understand the person on the other side.\n\na 7950gx2 is a really fast graphics card and in performance it'll look something like this:\n\n7950gx2: 150 fps (frames per second, the higher the #, the smoother the actions on the screen)\n\n7300: 15 fps....\n\nanything below 29.9fps is "not very smooth" to the human eye. also it is not the amount of onboard memory that matters, but the processor that they use on the board. a 512 mb cheap card will get killed by a 256 mb expensive card.\n\nfor the 2 cards...there aren't any extra features. they are both gaming cards and are used for that purpose
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Yea, it will un it, considering you have a great video card\n\nI bought a computer a week ago wth those stats exactly \n-1 gb ram ;(\n\nand it works great\n\nSLI is for dual cards, meaning buy 2 of the same video card, and you can use them both in conjunction\n\nif you not gonna use to video cards then get the A8N, that's what I bought (make sure it has PCI express \n\nagp is out\n\nI would get the harddriv with more room, rpm is not as important as transfer rate (SATA 3.0 gb/s, 1.5, etc
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Define cheap $.  There are all sorts of price ranges but if you don't want to spend too much then you have several options.  I'm going to assume you have an AGP slot so my response will be limited to that.  I think the Geforce 6600 is about as good as you will be able to do on a limited budget, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814143056 but it is $86, I didn't know if that was too high or not.
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you need to purchase a 128MB video card...like the GeForce 5200 or 5500\n\ngo to tigerdirect.com they have plenty.\n\nyou will need an open AGP or PCI slot.....
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The ATI Rage Pro was a good video card... back in the day. The reason a seller might put this in the specs is because it is an older computer, and there is not more to say about the computer. \nNothing worse than onboard video.