if she drops in even the old video card, she'll be able to use opnegl much better then currently. NEVER stick with onboard video if you can. Also, once yo uinstall your video card, see if there's a bios setting to disable the onbaord video as well.. it can be a resource hog, and also a slight power drain as well. (You could run it to drive a second monitor though)

You'd want to drive the main monitor with your video card, and the secondary monitor with your onboard video. You won;t see much of a performance hit, since games are always played on th emain monitor anyway, and P7's opengl would remain on th emain monitor, so long as you don;t stretch the preview window across both screens.

Poser and many other graphic applications can be much easier to use with dual monitors.. you move all your tools and palettes to the secondary monitor, and you then mave a much larger work panel on your main monitor.

Addin gthat extra ram stick will also help.. you might find you need to add two at a time though. If so, you can pick up another 512k for about $20 us, and it's WELL worth that value to you to do so. (Depends though on type of ram, and ram speed.. you want to try to match them if possible but you can mix speeds, but might get a slight performance hit.

Also to maximize your systems cache, uncheck "let windows do my work for me", and make the cache size a bout 1/3rd more then wondows reccomends. Select the options to make it one non changing size. if you can, defrag your HD first.. that way your cahcer will all be together, and will operate slightly faster.

Once you video card is installed, look at poser 7's setup options.. if you can turn on hardware acceleration, do so.. that way your video card will be handling a lot of the preview workkload.

and of course, let us know if this helps you!

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.