New Graphics Card for Christmas

[Crussell]

I was wondering if it is worth it, my current one is really pants, apparently DX9 compatible but my Graphics card seems to love being DX8.

So what one would the V recommend?, before you start saying the 8800, I don't really have much money to splash on one.

My current specs are:
Manufacturer: Sony
Model: Sony VAIO PCV-RX201
DX version: 9.0c

Now brace yourself for my amazingly rubbish Graphics card:
Manufacturer: Nvidia
Model: GeForce2 Ti

[MWISimmer]

A quick google here shows your motherboard has a 4X AGP slot so any modern card will be slowed to that speed out of the box. You may see a small performance gain over your existing card but it won't be much. Maxing out your RAM to 1Gb (max supported) would help, again this will make a small difference.

To be brutally honest, it's old tech and throwing money at it will not be beneficial in the bigger picture, my advice would be to start saving and look at some of the newer tech out there, some new RAM and an outdated graphics card for your system would be pushing

[GunnerMan]

I agree although you could find an decent AGP card that would boost perfromance(keep in mind 8x agp offers a small improvement over 4x) it would still be horribly bottlenecked by the rest of the system. If your going to spend money on a computer let it be a new one.

[Crussell]

I knew the Computer was outdated and I got reminded last month.
I got a Corrupt Drive which led to Blue Screens, the shop even questioned if there was any point in keeping it because it was old.  ;D

A new computer would be good I know, looks like I'll have to be good for a month  :D

Thanks,
Tom.