Hi I am looking at buying a new notebook from Compaq and was wondering two things first which of my choices for graphic cards is the best (listed below) and two can I put in a different card like the GeoForce? Thanks for your help Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 900 with up to 128MB shared memory ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M or Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M IGP with 128MB DDR shared

Well, none of those are much better than the other but i would go for the XPRESS 200M. Unfortunately you cant upgrade Grpahics on laptops because they are intergrated onto the motherboard. If you want a laptop with good graphics you are going to have to pay a decent amount of money because they arent cheap. Mattwizz3 : ) ... meh

As Mattwizz3 pointed out, these aren't actual cards, they're integrated into the motherboard & cannot be upgraded. As long as you aren't planning on playing high end games, any of the above will do. Look for one that has 'dedicated' RAM rather than 'shared' RAM. If you want a laptop for gaming, expect to pay $1500+

That is what I thought I currently have a compaq presario pentium 4ht 3.0mhz and was looking to upgrade but Compaq isn't offering very good graphics cards I have in this computer a ati x600 it says it has 256mb not sure if that is integrated or dedicated. Are these cards above that I listed better than this one or not I am sort of afraid to upgrade, and not actually be upgrading. I am pretty sure the processors are better than what I have now, but not sure about the graphics .

The system you have now is pretty decent, The X600 is miles ahead of the other's you have listed there. Is your current system a Laptop or a Desktop? You shold be getting reasonable performance from the X600.. Mattwizz3 : ) ... meh

Compaq's have become HP's yesterday technology just like E-machines is Gateways yesterday technology. A lot of Compaqs and E-machines are targeted for mid to budget range preformance out of the box. You aren't going to get any Compaq laptops that is great or even good when it comes to the graphics chips they put in there, at best you will get ok. AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ 2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200 Nvidia 7800GT SATA II 2x 200gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0 Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI