What video card would you recommend?

[The General]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

If you did have a longing for the 8800GT, which needs a PCI-e slot, you could do what I did for my son and buy a relatively inexpensive motherboard. If you're a penny pincher like me and use AMD processors, I purchased a Gigabyte GA-M61P-S Slot AM2 nVidea motherboard for $74.99 from NewEgg and it has a PCI-e slot to run the 8800GT. There are other inexpensive but highly effective motherboards that will work with other microprocessors. The way computers are made today, doing a motherboard transplant is not a job you have to be afraid of.

Thanks Maerean_M & R.R.

I just did what you suggest and put an ASROCK Motherboard in and bought a second-hand 1.6Ghz Core 2 Duo. All works ok. However, I don't have any DDR2 Ram yet and am thinking about getting the 2.6 Ghz Processor. Would the DDR2 Ram really make an improvement to SH4. I even bought a new 450W Power supply because on my old system the polygons started to breakdown after playing a short while, I was told the processor (Pentium 4 3.4 Ghz)was too hot. However, the same thing still happens after about 40 mins, which is a little disheartnening. What do you think the problem is? The Processor, the Card, or the memory?