you got it for free and you're dissing it?

No no, you misunderstand. I'm very happy that I got the card, it is a better card than I have ever had. I was just pointing out that by today's standards it may be lacking. As if I care, it will better than this 8mb onboard Intel card i am using. Maybe it will be able to play Command & Conquer with no lagging issues. That would be sweet!

It's ironic that you play Command & Conquer. I'm a HUGE C&C fan.... I play ALL the time and I have every single C&C game there is. I played all the time on that unit I'm sending you with no issues at all. I LOVE C&C !!            -- Ace --

Yeah I have Command & Conquer The First Decade. It really doesn't like to play on Windows 7 without a patch or two and even then I can't get the oldest games, made for Windows 95, to work. That's OK, my favs are Tiberian Sun, Red Alert 2, and Generals. Wonder what C&C 4 is like. I also play a few Facebook games. that's about it other than Monopoly, The Game Of Life, and a few other kids games the kid likes to play.

Don't waste your time or money on C&C 4. It's the worst version of the game I ever played. It is nothing like it's predecesors and it doesn't even look anything like C&C ...I totally wasted $50 bucks on that game and it got horrible reviews as well. My most favorite version is C&C Generals- Zero Hour. But C&C 3 - Tiberium Wars  is a good one as well, I play it alot too.  Atari also has a good war game that I play alot too, it's called Act of War - Direct Action & an expansion pack Act of War - High Treason. I like it because it plays alot like C&C except that the graphics detail is much better. You can get it online just about anywhere & since it's an older game , you can get it dirt cheap. I got mine 2 years ago for $9 bucks !    -- Ace --

Yeah I might look into it. For now I want to finish off Yuri's Revenge. I've beat all of Generals including the expansion packs. I might try my hand at Generals again with a harder CPU setting. Might be interesting. Not sure if the tower will be here tomorrow, last check said Wednesday.

I'm glad to hear you got the disc Kona. Surprised too because I thought it would take much longer. Oh well....in this case the sooner happened before the later, pretty cool. Once you get Ace's hardware and it all comes together........Wow! Have fun.

I got the 80 GB hard drive and IDE cables in this morning. Thanks guys!

 It's not a big one but it tested perfect and has been used recently.  Remember when 80GB's was a huge amount of storage? And 256 MBs was a lot of RAM?

 I know the gfx card will be the lowest score in WEI but it is significantly better than most on-board gfx, won't use system memory and gives you multi-monitor options. It should do C&C just fine.

Yep , especially since that board has OverClocking capabilities in the Bios settings.

I wouldn't know the first thing about overclocking. What make/model is the board? thought I would look up the manual right quick.

It's an   ASUS  M2N-SLI.          -- Ace --

here's a nice tech video for it :  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zsRPqN_uuc

I overclocked my cpu the other day for the fun of it, I have a MSIdka790gxplatinum w/oc capabilities, well, it failed and my computer wouldn't start after. Scared the __ _ _ _ OUT OF ME. Had to get out my manual, fortunately I did no harm, just had to reboot three times to reset the BIOS. Was still scary for a moment. Never again, thats what bigger CPU'S are for.IMO.DT1

That video says it is an AM2 mobo, not a AM2+ mobo. Will there be issues with this CPU I have?

AM2+/ AM2 http://www.asus.com/Motherboard/M2NSLI/ Odd, though, the manual for it states AM2 with no mention of AM2+ LINK

I like those quick connectors, great feature. 

I have an AM2+ processor I used in it , so I know it works.

My first bought PC...I remember when 1 gig was huge and 16 meg ram was a lot.

Second PC I ever had was a real IBM XT [hand-me-down]...had a 1 meg expansion 'card' the size of a small city....

...back when 640k was all you'd ever need....

....and its HD was a whopping 20meg.

And now we have 4.2ghz beasties with 32 gigs of RAM and HDDs with terabytes of space.  Due to a purchasing mixup with my nephew and my having to fix his machine, I have recently come into possession of an AMD FX8350 x8 @ 4.2ghz... in exchange he gets my AMD Phenom 1100T x6 @ 3.8.  Silly sod left it way too long to return... besides, he opened the package and had installed the CPU on the wrong mobo, so his best option was the swap.  As they say, fair exchange is no robbery... and the 1100T initially cost more anyhow.

Still trying to figure out how we got XP to run well on only 256 MB of memory.

My first interaction with a pc was a freebie.It had a pair of 2gig hard drives with windows 98 and 64mb of ram, pentium pro i think?

I had to do disk compression to run the thing even after a clean install!I think todays TV remotes are more powerful.