That ATI graphics card is still pretty decent. It fits quite well with the specs of the CPU. Must have been pretty high end 3 years ago when you bought it. The best you can do is adding more RAM. Don't stop at 512 Mb, try to go for at least 768 Mb. Windows XP and all your programs will love it. What kind of hard disk do you have? It might be worth to add a big fast second disk, say a 160 GB 7200 RPM ATA133 drive with 8 Mb or 16 Mb cache. Again, your OS and all your apps will love that. If you're rendering high quality stills, fast OpenGL performance doesn't matter at all - Poser will use the software rendering engine. OpenGL is useful in the preview windows, and for rendering "toon" animations. And then the performance of a modern graphics card can come in handy. Still, a modern graphics card must get its data fast. I think your system will not be able to utilize a really fast graphics card (say a Geforce 6800 GT or Ultra) to its full potential, you'd need a 3 Ghz class CPU, lots of fast DDR400/DDR2 RAM in a dual channel setup, and a big fast disk system. So I'd advise only upgrading RAM and maybe disk. Or (depends on the size of your paycheck) a complete new system. Upgrading your graphics card will probably not worth the money. Hope this helps, Steven.

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