graphics card upgrade

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maiden fan

Hi, I am looking to upgrade my radeon 9550 agp graphics card and a
thinking of the x700 as I am limited to £100.Is this card better o
will it be a waste of money? if so what do you reccomend I have a Abi
a-17 guru motherboard and 500w psu 3gig pent 4 processor and a gig o
ram. I am looking for a card that can handle games like sims 2 bette
than the one I have
 
Your 9550 should work fine... depending on how much RAM it has onboard. But
the x700 will probably work better.

One way to make the Sims 2 work better is to run it in windowed mode....

Right click on the Sims 2 icon(s) on the desktop (I added the 's' in case
you have University and/or Nightlife)...

Then follow the instructions at:
http://compsimgames.about.com/cs/firsttimehere/ht/gamewindowed.htm

Try the windowed mode first on the 9550 (ensuring you have the latest
drivers from the ATI website and the latest version of DirectX - www.ati.com
and www.microsoft.com/directx) and see how that performs. Then if you still
want/need better, think about the new card.
 
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