What graphics card should I upgrade to for games?
921990
g-force or ATI cards. Either of those will work well with your machine. \n\nCheck out www.tigerdirect.com for good prices and comparrisons.
575658
First decide for wat purpose ur going to upgrade.then according to that go for a upgrade.\n\nProcessor: go for Intel P4 3.0Ghz and above if u have anything less than that or go for a AMD Athlon 64 bit 3200+ if ur processor is AMD\n\nMotherboard : for intel based go for Intel 945G Desktop Board\n\nRam:512MB @ 400Mhz\n\nHDD: acc to ur wish\n\nVideo Card :Nvidia Geforce FX 6600 GT\n\nthese all come around 200dollars and its the best available..
428017
It depends on the chip used for the integrated graphics, but most on-board video cards would have a tough time with WoW or Galaxies.  Depending on if you have an AGP port of PCI-Express port on your motherboard, there are a number of budget cards that would allow you to play those games at a decent speed and frame rate without killing your wallet.  I run an old AGP Radeon 9600 and it is able to play WoW perfectly well.
786973
When you say "suitable for gaming", what type of games are you looking at playing?  The really high-end first-person titles like Half-Life 2, Fear, Everquest II etc probably have hardware requirements that far exceed what you've got.   \n\nMost of the high-end gaming cards that offer dual outputs are PCI-Express these days (rather than AGP) and generally have dual-DVI.  The most common configuration is still one VGA and one DVI output port, and you can use a $5 adapter.\n\nThere are a number of older AGP cards that have dual VGA outputs like the GeForce 5200 and ATI Radeon 7000 series, but those aren't fast enough for the newest games.   However, they will handle games like StarCraft, the Sims, and watching photos & video clips just fine.  That might be a good choice for what you're doing.
730725
For gaming, the most important component in your system will be the video card, so that's where you'll want to bust the budget.  You'll get a greater performance boost by spending an extra $150 on the video card instead of processor in most cases. However, I would recommend at least another 512mb of RAM (preferably add 1 gb) since the newest fps games and online mmorpgs are quite ram-hungy.  Half-life:2 / Lost coast required 1gb to play, and that's about a year old now...\n\nThe 6600 is ok, but far from great. On the Nvidia side, upgrading to a 7600- or even better a 7900GT, will make you MUCH happier.  If you prefer ATI cards, get at least an X1800 series... I upgraded from a 6800 to a 7900GT and it's light-years better.  \n\nIf money is no object, then something like a 7950GTX or the brand-new 8800 series is absolutely amazing, but I personally can't afford $500 video cards, I need something closer to half that price :)\n\nYou can compare any two video cards at  www.gpureview.com, I suggest you take a look there.  Here's a comparison of your 6600GT to the 7800GT (an older card)\n\nhttp://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=187&card2=313\n\nFinally, check out this video card thread; it was started before the introduction of some newer cards, but gives you a great breakdown of which cards fall into which categories, and if you scroll through to the later entries on pages 13-15,  there is discussion of the newest stuff, too.
795472
I think you should buy the NVIDIA GeForce 6600.It would play on medium and high settings and maybe make the graphics a little better.
1006344
I had a 5200 and it was nice for limited gaming.  If you are into serious gaming like BF2 or FarCry or other graphics heavy applications.  You want to try to spend as much as possible on a great video card.  The nVidia 6800 with 256 Mb of memory is what I'm using now and I love it.  It's by no means a top of the line card only cost about $160, but it works for the games I mentioned great.  I have PCI-Express though and that may make a difference.  You can get great reviews on vid cards at www.tomshardware.com along with prices from tiger and zipzoomfly.
290416
Go with the GeForce 7800.  I never buy the latest greatest product as it's usually too expensive.
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
986877
First off you should want to know what Motherboard you have.\nCan it support PCIe, AGP and is it SLI compatible.\n\nOnce you've determined that, then you should look at the cost and if you can afford it I'd go for the new GeForce 7950 GX2 graphics card for gaming.\n\nI myself have 2 BFG 7800 GTX OC's in SLI config - but the single 7950 GX2 beats what I have. \n\nHope this helps.  Check out the following article - should help you decide.
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.
505541
Yes, as long as you have an AGP slot (it is AGP isn't it) but that's ancient.  I believe there were also PCI versions of that card if I'm not mistaken.  If you aren't going to play games that's fine.  But in the computer world that card is as old as my grandmother, maybe older.  Why do you people like hanging on to the past, it's time to move on.  Step up to at least the ATi X700 or Geforce 6600 series.  And that's not even what I recommend for gaming.
893674
you need to habe the right type of graphics card first
969082
Minimum Requirements for Graphics\nVRAM 64MB, (128MB recommended)\nNVIDIA GeForce4 series, or better (recommended)\nATI Radeon 8500 series, or better (recommended)\n\nGeForce 6100 series chip specifications\nBoth the 6100 and 6150 support Shader Model 3.0 and DirectX 9.0c. \n\nNVIDIA GeForce6 will be okay.
987119
Generally it's not the case that a card is advertised as compatible with a list of games, but more often that a game supports a list of graphics chipsets.\nI have found \nhttp://www.tomshardware.co.uk/site/vgacharts/index.html\nuseful in determining the relative ability of graphics cards.\nEssentially, it comes down to how much you are able/willing to pay, within the constraints of which card type your mobo will support.  \nhttp://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/SubCategory.asp?SubCategory=48 is useful for filtering down the list of what's generally available.\nGood Hunting!
72409
Nvidia 7800GTX with 512MB of memory.\n\nSomething like this:\n\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814143044
875976
My suggestion to you is to buy a reasonable AGP / PCI-E graphics card with atleast 128MB RAM for playing games.