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I am looking to upgrade my computer real soon.  Currently I have
windows xp
1.7ghz processor
intel 32mb graphics card
128 mb pc2100 ram

i know i need to get my system ram up alot, but what about my graphics card.  It's built into the motherboard and my board does not have a agp.  i noticed companies do make pci video cards.  Are those any better than what i have or not?  Will one conflict with my existing intel card that i can't pull out?  Fs2002 runs good if i have the settings on low, but i want to get a little more out of the program.

any advice would be appreciated.

A 1.7G processor is reasonable for now. No reason to throw it away. Add more RAM and maybe a little better graphics card (yours is by no means bargain basement yet but...) and you should be fairly well set. Spend the rest on a good joystick and/or rudder  pedals and you'll be flying high.

Outside of RAM that you can carry to your next machine, there isn't much you'd wanna do to that main-board,,

Brett is right, PCI cards will not help you. A new motherboard with AGP is required. Some Nforce2 boards come with reasonable onboard graphics and are upgradeable with an AGP slot. But they are for AMD processors.

A 512 mb ram stick (256mb if you are tight) will help.
Maybe your onboard graphics can be tweaked in bios for a big performance increase by allocating more system ram to it and opening the graphics aperature up.

Unfortunatley, you are one of many who got a good "deal" when you bought a "all in one" motherboard.