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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thanee" data-source="post: 4180965" data-attributes="member: 478">GFX suggestion: GeForce 8800GT-512MB or GeForce 8600GT or GTS-512MB, if you consider the first too expensive stillThose are available for a reasonable price by now (~$200 for the 8800 and ~$100 for the 8600) and should handle pretty much everything you can buy today, so should be fairly future-proof as well.EDIT: Of course, you have to find out first, whether your computer has a PCI-E (PCI-Express; the current video card slot technology) video slot or is still AGP only (in that case you need to settle with an older video card, as almost all the newer ones are PCI-E; the Radeon HD 2600 XT is not too old and should be available for around ~$100; I do not know much about it, though, but read that it needs the Omega drivers for ATI cards to run properly).EDIT²: And while you are at it, maybe also check your RAM. If you have less than 2GB it might be worth a thought to upgrade to 2GB (actually completely replace the existing RAM with 2x1GB kit DDR2-667 or -800 dual channel, depending on what your board supports). It's fairly inexpensive and Vista is pretty RAM-hungry.ByeThanee</blockquote>