Al,
About the only thing you really need to look at is what AGP version the
motherboard supports...ie 2X, 4X, etc. Once you know how fast the AGP port
is, start looking for a good deal. I favor ATI cards, but that's really a
personal opinion and I'm sure that statement will cause a big stir....LOL.
Make sure you have the latest drivers for the card (not always included
with the card unfortunately), and if running Windows, make sure you have
the latest DirectX  installed. I personally wouldn't pay more than about a
hundred bucks for a video card, but then I'm not a hard core gamer. You can
easily drop four hundred bucks or more on a top line card, but you have to
play the really sophisticated games to see a difference.

At 02:59 PM 9/29/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>My old video card isn't up to some of the newer games, so I'd like to
>replace it. Can anyone help me determine a
>decent card that will work with my system? What factors determine which
>cards will work with a particular machine?
>
>What specs do you need to help me with this?
>Here are some - please let me know if you need more:
>
>1 GHz AMD Athlon
>RAM:         128 MB sdram (168 pin unbuffered dimm)
>Video card: 16MB nVidia TNT Vanta
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Al Thompson
>
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