Newbie ??'s on Video Card info/update

[Xtian]

Hey, all

Yes, I'm a newbie and probably am not worthy for my shaddow to be in the same county as you all, but I'm just trying to find out something regarding updating / replacing my video card.

I'm running a Dell Demension 8250 (rec'd as wedding gift from family in 2002), P4 2.80GHz, just updated the RDRAM (don't laugh) to 768Mhz total. The card I'm running in an NVidia GeForce4 MX 420 (again, quit laughing, please. I don't know much, but I know it's not that impressive). I do have a 17" LCD, though, so I'm not a COMPLETE loser (just an incomplete one).

I'm not into heavy gaming or video downloading, etc (still on 56k modem..Hey! You're still laughing!http://forum.pcmech.com/images/smilies/mad.gif
) But I'd like to know what a nice, simple upgrade would be and cost to allow me to do DirectX9, and such. To tell the truth, I'd like to play Civ IV, and have a demo disk from some 'puter mag I bought (there's the chuckling again). The tutorial seemed to work fine, 'til the first movie tried to play. Hung everything and had to force the 'puter off. I'm guessing it's the video card.

Anyway, long message for a quick question. Any thoughts (without snickers) would be greatfully received.

Thanks.

[Panama Red]

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