Video Card recommendation

polydiol

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Hi Guys

I'm putting a computer together for my parents and it is culled from old parts I had laying around - they currently have an amd 233mhz and I have an and tbird 1333mhz so I was going to piece it together along with a 40gb harddrive I don't use and so forth. Problem is that the fx 5200 I was going to use basically broke in half when my clumbsy older brother showed up and sat on it and now I need a new video card for them. My parents aren't into gaming or anything and the most graphically intensive program they would use is AOL 9.0 and I was looking for a reliable video card that wasn't too expensive. Any recommendations? The motherboard is agp 4x.
 
Cheap... You shouldn't need to spend more than $40...

If they don't game and aren't going to. then they won't need more than 64 megs of RAM.

Think Radeon 7000, 9200se, Nvidia MX4000, 5200 and the like.
 
Just put another 5200 in there if it's not going to be used for anything more than the most basic of gaming.

You can pick these cards up new for next to nothing.
 
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