please help me modify my computer

[khosain]

Hi so i had gotten back from the military with some extra cash and decided to indulge on my old addiction of MMORPGS. i went computer shopping with a tech savey friend of mine and he helped me pick out a somewhat decent computer that he told me i could modify into something good and relatively cheap. well soon after uncle sam called me up and i was gone for a little bit and now that i am back i am curious of what i should modify on my computer.

this is what i have
Compaq Presario SR5130NX-AMD Athalon 64x2 3800+, 200GB/1GB Ram/Nvidia GEforce 6150 SE

i was going to add this for ram as it was recomened for my computer by newegg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145098

do i need a better graphics card?

please please help me with this that would be great.

[Masaki 7-11]

The first thing you should do is upgrade your video card if you are going to game, upgrading ram will offer little to no performance increase, unless you're running Vista. Can you name which MMORPG(S) you'll be playing?

[khosain]

i am running vista.....

and i have played SWG for years but i also like WOW but if you can recomend some new ones that wold be great.

what grphix card would work for me

[Masaki 7-11]

What kind of monitor are you using, a midrange video card should be fine if you're using a 17 inch or 19 inch monitor. Vista will receive some benefit from getting more ram, and 3GB is close to the highest amount supported on Vista 32-bit (standard version).

[khosain]

it is a 19 inch. any recomendations?

i have tried playing games on it and they will not lag but just freeze up for 10 seconds to a minute then come back

[Masaki 7-11]

This video card should work fine for your system: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102700

I would also suggest buying the ram as well since vista uses up a lot of memory, and additional memory will help improve performance.

[khosain]

thank you so much! i will probably end up with this i will let you know how it works

[Masaki 7-11]

Let us know how it goes, hopefully everything will work out fine once installed, but if you have any problems with the installation, post back and we'll help you fix it up.

[khosain]

i ordered and isntalled the card so far so good. how ever i could not find where to disable my old video card and since i have installed my graphics card my sound does not work

[phigdon]

is the onboard, integrated, or the old drivers? old drivers are easy, go to control panel and open add/remove programs. find your old video card driver and click remove then reboot. if its integrated video then you need to go into CMOS and disable the onboard graphics. In mine I can select onboard, PCI, and PCIe.