thanx for ll ur replys but is a 7300 gs better than a 6600 or worse or is it just cause i have 256 Mb more ram than his?

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As TMP-Man pointed out the 6600 is better than te 7300gs. The 7300's are a pretty dodgy card. You having 256Mb more RAM is also a factor, so its a mixture of both. But I suspect that if you had 512Mb of ram your computer would still be better than his at gaming because of your graphics card. Mattwizz3 : ) Sempron 2600+ @ 2.2GHz 1Gb DDR400 Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe 200GB SATA 2X 80Gb IDE 256Mb MSI 6800 Ultra

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All my games are played at 1024 x 768. P4 3.0 HT 800mhz FSB Asrock P4I65G M/B 2 x 512mb Kingston Value DDR 400 Dual Channel 80GB Diamond max9 SATA 160GB Diamond max10 SATA Club3D GeForce6600 256mb SumVision P4 450W PSU

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Also I would like to ask if more ram would help me with my games. If i got a 1 Gb stick and i put my 512 with it and made 1.5 Gb of ram would that solve lag in games such as Quake 4.

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TMP-Man theres no point in quoting all that guff, all chalk and cheese, ones a decent gaming graphics the other clearly is not. as for the 6600gt well okay i didnt have the figures (non gt) to hand but its a good enough comparison just to answer the op. & yes i meant 7300GT geforce, 8 pipes 350/667 OC to 475/900 (may be wrong on latter not sure) ether way it even puts the Ati X1600 in the shade on perf/cost There about £56 here thats dam cheap for that performance. http://www.ausfx.com/reviews/NVIDIA/Inno3D7300GT.php gmanych putting more ram in may help a bit, but you want better performance all round starting with upgrading the cpu to something equivalent to your friends or better, the Athlon1800 is past its best for new games. Possibly depends on your mobo bios but a barton XP3200 would be better, or start afresh new mobo cpu etc. your bottleneck is the cpu , your friends is his graphics card. regards

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"TMP-Man theres no point in quoting all that guff, all chalk and cheese, ones a decent gaming graphics the other clearly is not." No point for you because you never use it in your life... "Possibly depends on your mobo bios but a barton XP3200 would be better, or start afresh new mobo cpu etc. your bottleneck is the cpu , your friends is his graphics card." When he can get an athlon XP 2500+ and overclock to 3200+ level, why waste extra money to get a stock 3200+? TMP-Man Asus P5P800-SE PAT P4 506 @ 4009Mhz 1.3625v Thermaltake CLP0024 w/ 1700RPM 92MM + AS5 2GB OCZ 2-3-2-5 DDR400 120GB/300GB 7200RPM HD MSI 6600GT AGP 550/1100

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"http://www.ausfx.com/reviews/NVIDIA/Inno3D7300GT.php" I read the reviews, turns out its 2x 7300gt running in SLI mode and only got ~5k in 3DMark05. If you do get a 7600gt, easily surpass that ~5k barrier... Lets do some math here, 7300Gt cost $200 CAD each according to the article while the 7600GT cost $300 CAD. So by getting 2x 7300GT @ $400 vs single 7600GT @ $300, which one is more justified for price vs performance ratio? TMP-Man Asus P5P800-SE PAT P4 506 @ 4009Mhz 1.3625v Thermaltake CLP0024 w/ 1700RPM 92MM + AS5 2GB OCZ 2-3-2-5 DDR400 120GB/300GB 7200RPM HD MSI 6600GT AGP 550/1100

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No point for you because you never use it in your life... er what? 2x 7300GT @ $400 vs single 7600GT @ $300 er no, id buy a 7800 and be happy even at a current exchange rate. seems you Canadians are paying way over the odds for Graphics cards. Somthing very bad (4u) in your exchange rate.

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"seems you Canadians are paying way over the odds for Graphics cards. Somthing very bad (4u) in your exchange rate." Those prices are from the link of article you post... Go read it again yourself and more carefully this time before you make another statement... TMP-Man Asus P5P800-SE PAT P4 506 @ 4009Mhz 1.3625v Thermaltake CLP0024 w/ 1700RPM 92MM + AS5 2GB OCZ 2-3-2-5 DDR400 120GB/300GB 7200RPM HD MSI 6600GT AGP 550/1100

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