Video card question

[CaptainCaveMan]

I have a dell dimension 8400 with a 3.4 processor, 1 gig of ram, and a radeon x800 se video card. (I'm 90% sure that is the video card i got, not sure how to check it).

I ordered 2 more gigs of ram from newegg the other day to bump me up to 3gigs total. I haven't installed it yet.

I had some extra money and was wondering if i should look at replacing my video card or not.

It seems to work fine now, i don't really use my computer for gaming although i do like to play flight-sim 2004, doom 3, or a simcity type game every now and then. I seem to remember that when i played doom 3 or black and white 2 the screen would kind of freeze for a second every now and then if i moved real fast and i had the graphics all the way up. I don't know if that was a video card issue or a ram issue.

I can live with what i have, but since i have some extra money laying around i figured i might look into future-proofing things. I'm not looking to spend a whole lot, i figured since mine is around 4 years old i might be able to find a better one that is pretty cheap.

[blackhawk01]

get an NVIDIA 8800 GT...good card

[86 IROC-Z]

(I'm 90% sure that is the video card i got, not sure how to check it).

If you want to check, do this:

Go to Start, then Run

In the Run window, type dxdiag

Your graphics card should display on the "Display" tab.

[krese]

you need to find out what expansion slot you have for graphics cards.. if you have a x800 it is prolly AGP and you won't find too many of the new cards made in AGP.. you may be done with that computer as that x800 is a few generations old now (i had that card when it was new and it is not sitting in my 2nd rig) and it has a hard time running newer games. will be hard to future proof any computer much less one that is 4 years old...