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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Azul" data-source="post: 1929964" data-attributes="member: 11779">The Radeon 9600/9700/9800 options people have been describing are indeed excellent choices for mid-range video cards in your price range, but frankly you won't see more than a tiny fraction of their actual performance if you pair them with a Duron 700.  You aren't even seeing anywhere near the full video capabilities of your current Radeon 7000 I'd wager.  A Duron 700 can push an original GeForce 256 or a GeForce 2MX fairly efficiently, but any more powerful video card won't really shine.  Even a GeForce 2 or original Radeon likes to have over a GHz of processing power.  Your current video card is already complete overkill compared to the rest of your system specs.You are far better advised to spend you money fixing your system's real bottleneck for gaming...  your CPU/motherboard/RAM combo.  Upgrading to a Sempron system with something like an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard and 512MB of 400MHz RAM would cost only slightly more than a Radeon 9800Pro and you'd see a MUCH bigger gain in performance both in games (as your Radeon 7000 would suddenly have enough processor behind it to really let it show its stuff) and everyday desktop applications.Hmm...  I just noticed that you mentioned "surfing Compaq"...  are you running a Compaq branded system (and thus probably have a custom case and a relatively weak power supply)?  That would complicate upgrading your machine considerably.  It might be worth investing in a new case (and power supply) if you choose to upgrade.  The drives should be transferrable (although Compaq hard drives from that era have messed-up partitioning schemes to allow their "it sometimes works right" system restoring software to work)./worked tech support for Compaq when they were selling Durons and remembers just how problem-ridden almost the entire Presario line was (top end system weren't too buggy since fewer corners were cut in designing them)</blockquote>

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