Besides ANY video card could handily quadruple the display speed that you find made in the last year or even two, others note the Pest and Parasite issues. Hint, these are not VIRUS.
Nothing indicates you have such, but I'll note http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6132-0.html?forumID=32&threadID=1313&start=0 anyway, just in case.
Worth noting is that if you recycled the hard disk, then you keep one of the speed anchors as you moved up the machine's CPU. The hard disk is same speed, so your bottlenecks are likely in what you kept.
Bob
I'm using a generic S3 VGA video card in a PC with a AMD Athlon XP 2400+ processor, an MSI KT2 Combo MB with 256k PC133 DIM SDRAM. I'm cheap so I use a 56K modem. The machine overall doesn't seem as fast as I would have expected having moved up from an AMD K6-2 200MZ processor and a Socket A instead of a Socket 7 Motherboard. I changed to WIN 98 SE too.
What should I expect if I upgrade to a better video card? I don't play games or edit videos or anything like that. What I do use the PC for is trading in the futures markets and pulling up lots of financial graphs with calculated indicators.
Any thoughts?

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