Looking for comparison charts

[Robert Jacobs]

I currently have a motherboard with built in Intel® 82845G Graphics
Controller, 1GB shared RAM and no AGP slot, only PCI slots. I would like to
know what, if any, the performance boost of a Radeon 9200. 9200SE or 9250
would be over my Intel Graphics? I was actually looking at the PowerColor
ATI Radeon 9200 or 9250 with 256MB DDR.

Any help would be appreciated.

Robert....

 

[Sleepy]

I currently have a motherboard with built in Intel® 82845G Graphics
Controller, 1GB shared RAM and no AGP slot, only PCI slots. I would like to
know what, if any, the performance boost of a Radeon 9200. 9200SE or 9250
would be over my Intel Graphics? I was actually looking at the PowerColor
ATI Radeon 9200 or 9250 with 256MB DDR.

Any help would be appreciated.

Robert....

an onboard graphics chip like that is good for 2d desktop apps
only and a complete non-starter for games especially 3d games.
sites like Toms Hardware that do comparison articles of graphics card wont
even mention an intel onboard chip because its ... well
.... silly - quite honestly.
you dont mention what CPU you have but say you have a 2ghz
cpu and 1gig RAM - a 9200 (dont touch a SE version) will run
Quake 3 engine based games like Call of Duty okay and newer stuff like HL2
reasonably at low resolution.
I would also expect the image quality of the Radeon to be better
mainly because onboard chips generally dont do high refresh rates at high
resolutions.

 

[Robert Jacobs]

Thanks, I have no problems playing most games. I have a Pentium 4 2.8Ghz
with 1GB RAM. I dont play The new highend games, except for like Sim2 and
Americas Army. I wanted to get a bit more video power so I could play Unreal
2004. Its a bit jittery on low graphics mode. I guess its a good idea to
upgrade. I was just hoping to see something in how much more ill get out of
a new card.

Thanks again.....