Need honest opinion on what video card to purchase

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Ldyvamp:
Hello,

I am looking for an honest opinion on what video card to purchase for my system. Here are my specs: Dell Dimension 2400, Memory 510MB, Chip Type Intel (R)82845G Graphics Controller. I have Windows XP Installed. The games I own are: The Sims 2, Nightlife, University, Pets and Seasons. My spending limit is $100.00 or less & I would like to get the most bang for my buck in this price range. I hear ATI is good but crashes on some systems. This is why I am giving you as many detals as I can about what I own. (If more are needed, please let me know). I have no idea on what to look for and am appealing to other consumers out there who know more about this than I do. I am hoping to avoid any potential problems with my game once the new card is installed. One question I have is, do you take the old card out and just plug in the new one? Any help would be greatly appreciated as your answers will, of course determine the outcome on which one I will buy.

Thank you so much & I look forward to your feedback!

Ldyvamp

pandasan:
Do you know what kind of motherboard your PC has?

Also~ would be a good idea to upgrade your RAM (memory) with only 512MB RAM even with an awesome video card your game will not run much faster (and with a budget of $100 you won't be able to get a video card with high memory of its own)

For the best deal on computer hardware, newegg.com is the best place to order from! I have ordered all of my PC hardware components from there and have saved tons of money by doing so. I'll browse the site and see if any in your price range stand out to me, but I will need to know what kind of videocard slots your pc's mobo has on it. If you don't know, it can probably be looked up at the dell site.

Nokomys:
My personal opinion is to go with NVidia cards. On my old system I had an old NVidia 5200 and on my new system I have a Radeon 9250. My graphics were SO much better with the old NVidia. I want it back... my hubby, who uses my old system now, won't give it up! When I have some extra money I'm going to change to an NVidia card.

Sorry, but ATI Radeon sucks!

Diva1108:
Thats too bad cause dell makes like all their laptops with ATI. How are the HP laptops with the Sims 2 games? Does anyone know?

Diva1108:
Im getting a new HP laptop for only $758 and it comes with windows vista home and a free upgrade to 1gb of Ram, free upgrade from 80gb of hardrive to 120, built in webcam AND a Nividia GeForce 7400 256mb graphics card. My dell Inspiron laptop sucks, Dells suck period now. HPs are sooo much better, I advice Ldyvamp to switch to them. It also come with free wireless internet connection great for downloading custome content on the go. Batterlife is pretty good and all the reviews says gaming runs really fast.

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