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i have P-2 266 Mhz MMX tech, 512 MB sdram, 16 MB Nvidia AGP card.....desktop pc. for which i would like to buy a new display card. i would like to know whether my motherboard supports the latest cards. if it supports then which is best suited to my PC. the problem behind purchasing a new card is when i load musicmatch jukebox or winamp latest version, the CPU usuage becomes 100%. if any of this two audio s/w's not loaded then the performance is pretty good. could u plz suggest me how i can overcome these problem.
if i get a new card with more video ram will it work for me???????
looking frwd 2 ur reply........


Post Sun Feb 27, 2005 11:33 pm
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You ran into a CPU limitation. Maybe an upgrade to a Medocino Celeron (up to 533 MHZ, 533 non-A) does help a little.
There should be lots of them with Slocket available on Ebay.

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