Things to look for when buying a graphics card?

[Bankykun]

OK I have a decent computer: Intel Celeron 2.80GHz, 200GB HDD, 1GB RAM.However when I play games with 3D graphics it lags really badly. Even to play the original Half Life I need to turn all the graphics quality to the absolute lowest, and even then it lags in high action moments.Could a new graphics card help with this? I was thinking of getting a Nvidia card. What kind of requirements do they have to work?

[MistaaPistaa]

What's your current graphic card? and i agree with the above poster, you should try an Intel pentium 4. the are somewhat cheap, very reliable, and good.

[rancid1321]

Sorry you dont have a decent computer. Celeron sucks really bad. I would suggust getting a whole new computer. With a good graphics card. Like a ati radeon 3850 or 3870. You need atleast a dual core. Wow celeron not good.

[drunkenchicken55]

a Geforce 8800 GT 512mb 256bit graphics card and a new processor. You need a new mother board though. I suggest one thats SLI ready, and has 2 full bandwidth PCIe x16 slots.Motherboard: (you can look through others on that site, that board is for intel quad cores, and the core 2 duo)http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...2E16814130318I recommend a core 2 duo. They are very fast, and very cheap now (2.66 ghz, and the 3.0 ghz is only like 40 bucks more)

[Hakuna M]

Sorry you dont have a decent computer. Celeron sucks really bad. I would suggust getting a whole new computer. With a good graphics card. Like a ati radeon 3850 or 3870. You need atleast a dual core. Wow celeron not good hahahahahahahahaha