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Hey gang!  Dunno if anyone lurks round here anymore or not.
I got a new system with onboard video (GF 6100)
I did the whole driver update thing etc etc.

It's a XP Pro SP2 system with a Biostar MB with 1 Gig of ram
It has an Athlon 64 x2 Dual core processor 4200+

I have been forced to use Open GL since D3D framerated fall well down into 
the teens
OGL will at least stay in the 20's to 30's (most of the time)

Some levels will get choppy.  A player mentioned memory sharing in passing, 
but I'm not sure about that.

My question is:
Would it behoove <sp> me to just bite the bullet and buy a PCI-e  (it's an 
express slot) video card and disable the OBV
in the bios?

If so, should I stick to Biostar / Geforce video cards only? and should I 
get a 128M or go for the gold with a 512M
that has a fan and all the bells and whistles?

Any help would be great.
Thanks
Descentman


(Oh and sorry for the long Sig. - but it's important)

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in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be 
treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to 
discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or 
origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an 
American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance 
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have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American 
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