Would the following video card upgrade help my system run 3d games significantly better on high settings?
921324
If you have that card and your game is lagging, you might need a RAM upgrade.  The card you have now is fine.  I run a 7800 256MB card on max settings while playing very intense games such as BF 2 and BF2142.  I have great performance.  I also run 3 gigs of shared RAM.\n\nNo need to upgrade that graphics card unless you have the money just lying around.
177795
I will not suggest to buy a new processor or mother board. You can buy a graphics acceleration card. like G-Force (256 MB or 512 MB). I hope you will enjoy playing Call of Duty2.
230459
You don't. The amount of video memory you have depends on how much is built into your video card, or your motherboards on board video. You can't increase it without getting a new video card, anymore than you can increase the amount of ram you have without buying and installing new ram.
478702
neither i would go for a nividia geforce 6600 GT 256MB this graphics card rocks and its also cheap \n\nor an nivdia geforce 6800 GT
702604
That machine will rock for current games.  My only concern is the GeForce 7800 GTX video card.  There is a new Nvidia card (the 8800 series) that supports Microsoft DirectX 10.  If you plan on upgrading and gaming on Windows Vista (comes out Jan 30, 2007), then you will need this card (or another that supports DX10, currently it's the only one).\n\nOverall this is a great rig for now, but in just a few months you'll need to buy a new video card.  Video cards can be uber expensive (up to $600), so it might be worth the wait.
21205
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.
1110854
Basically, if you have the cooling capabilities to handle it, I would suggest the 256MB card.  The more memory, the better it is capable of handling difficult graphics.
1099819
Yes, get the Geforce. \n\nToo bad your motherboard does not have a AGP 8X slot.  Then you could spend $200 that would actually get you awesome performance.  \n\nIf you do not have 2GB of RAM on your computer, that is where you should spend the money.   Check www.coastmemory.com
698670
Well you did not ention your processor spee, nevertheless i guess your system will catch up easily with windows vista and probably you dont need an upgade, if u want one, go for graphics card.. sum 256 mb by NVIDIAprobaly above 7200 , that will boost up your performance with windows vista cuz its looks r gr8 n better graphics is required...\nmy pc has a very basic config of just 2.26 ghz celeronD, with 256 mb DDR 333 memory n 80 GB seagate barracuda PATA harddisk and VIA P4m800-m mainboard with only 32 mb of internal graphics memeory,,, n it carries on vista well except windows aero func.. now al u need is upgrade graphics, if u wish n u can also use a USB 2.0 falsh disk to speed up ur computer by virtually adding ram to it... mail me for more info
949983
For what you are spending, you processor wont bottleneck the video card.  I would suggest that you spend that $150 on one good card rather than two very mediocre cards.  Try to go with the Nvidia 7800 series and above or the ATI 1800 series and above.  Those cards will outperform the two 7300's in SLI.
942444
If you're wanting to play games, then you should upgrade.  Since your motherboard has the ATI Express 200 graphics onboard, there's an extremely good chance that it has a PCI-E graphics slot.  For ~$100, you'd probably be happy with an X1600 Pro: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Category=38&N=2010380048+1069609641+1305520549+106790809+1067918889&Submit=ENE&SubCategory=48  an A1600XT: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Category=38&N=2010380048+1069609641+1305520549+106790809+1067918888&Submit=ENE&SubCategory=48 an X1650 Pro: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Category=38&N=2010380048+1069609641+1305520549+106790809+1067923258&Submit=ENE&SubCategory=48 or a 7600GS: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Category=38&N=2010380048+1069609641+1305520548+106790717+1067920619&Submit=ENE&SubCategory=48\n\nBTW, ATI video cards have had the best performance since the debut of their 9700 Pro, about 4 years ago.
718913
GAMES. AMD PROCESSOR AND DESIZEND FOR HIGH END GAMES.
1029440
No such thing as too much, man. Your computer is perfect for that kind f gaming. The 7900 GT might not be as good as your current configuration.
1134017
Unless your Pavillion has an AGP 8X slot, it isn't likely that your new video card would be alot faster.  Plugging in a PCI card would be pointless.\n\nTo really maximize your HP, check to see how much memory that you can put in it.   Check your specs, then check www.CoastMemory.com   These people help you to get the right memory in your system, and gladly accept returns if you get the wronk memory.
645080
Any of these will make you one super happy man :)\n\nI also believe you have an AGP port instead of PCI-Express\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?N=1069609639&Submit=ENE&Description=geforce+6600gt&Ntk=all\n\nHere is a link of how it performs in 3dmark.\nIt gets a pretty good score. Although a 6200 is also a great card as you  can see the 6600gt is about 3 times as fast as the 6200.\nhttp://www.tomshardware.com/2005/12/02/vga_charts_viii/page18.html
751738
Yes.  If you are looking for performace, go with a standalone gpu, that way you aren't bottlenecking your speed.
1004605
trust me for 3D you want to spend as much as you can afford. Processing power, graphics card, memory, hard drive space.. they're all really important so u cant just focus on one thing.