superdave1984
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OK. Bought a used Dell Optiplex GX 260 for $90. 2.4 Ghz P4, 512 RAM. Pretty decent PC. Swapped the hard drive from my old Dell, it booted right up. Had some driver issues, but nothing major. Anyway, when I go to play some games, the graphics are really bad. The picture is like a million small boxes with a diagonal line in each with half the box black, the other half what is supposed to be there. Is this because of the onboard graphics card? My old Dell played these same games no sweat. Dunno the specs of the card in this one except it says Intel 82845G/GL graphics controller with 48MB memory. Dunno the specs of the other PC either. I am not a hard core gamer so I am not spending a pile of cash on a new card, more likely to buy a $100 one from Wal Mart. They have a Diamond Multimedia Stealth ATI Radeon 9250 for $75.