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Get an Nvidia 6600 AGP card. Check out http://www.newegg.com  They will show you different brands and reviews from people that have used the specific card you are checking out. I would suggest either Leadtek, BFG, MSI or EVGA branded cards. Be sure you get an AGP that is 4x/8x.

Message Edited by paparandy on 12-31-2005 07:38 AM

How much are you willing to spend ?  

AGP version only  for your system

6200 card is so so in games and is well under $80

6600 plain is better and around $115

6600 GT is much better and is around $135.00 on up depending on the card and any promotions

6800 card also will work in your system, but more costly  around $ 179.00

Dim 4400 ( 3 Years 7 Months, going strong )
2.6 Ghz 400 FSB
1 Gb 2100 DDR Memory
20 Gb hard drive 7,200
Windows XP Home - SP-2
Leadtek 6600 GT
48xCDRW
17 LCD ( 1703 FP )
250 watt power supply

Message Edited by SR45 on 12-31-2005 09:34 AM

Anything less than a 6600 GT and you'll only be able to play at low settings a year from now. :smileysad: With the next release of video cards, even the 6600GT could be pushed into the lowend/budget category.

LOL..you guys hae seemed to have forgotten my name..ok went to that site

The 4600 system takes the AGP slot video cards.  When looking for a video card, make sure it has on the box, AGP and not PCI or PCI-Express, sometimes called PCIe.  Those last two will not work.

Message Edited by SR45 on 01-01-2006 07:12 AM

someone here said the 6800 card would be real good for it's price of around 179.00 so if i pick this up will it be hard to install as you can see i don't do the computer programing for the shuttle,heck i can't even downsize pictures yet..lol..but thanks again people and i hope everyone had a happy new year 

I suggest getting the 6600 GT card ( AGP version ).... We or someone in your family or neighborhood can assist in getting it installed.  I to, started out not knowing much about computers, that is why they have computer books, and this forum to help us.  When you are ready, we can give you a step by step instruction on how to do it.  Not that difficult, and only takes between 10 to 15 minutes time, depending on the individual. 

If the 6800 is within your budget, $179 is decent, then you should get it as it is several cards up the foodchain from the 6600GT.

Ok guys lets go,went to my local puter store but they didn't have the 6600 or 6600gt so they sold me a RADEON X 700 PRO,got home opened the box..and wow.have to hung a cord from the card to the hard drive then to the power supply, i think i can figure out the card and the hard drive (p3) but where do i look for power from the supply?

I have the Dim 4400 system, so yours may be some what different and hope someone with that Dim 4600 can verify this....

I used a Y molex power cable.  Connected one end, of course to the back of the video card.  The other longer end, I connected to a spare power connector right next to the cdrw drive only.  You may see one there or next to the dvd drive.  I left the other end of the Y cable connector to dangle free, and was not connected to anything else.  I was told not to connect it to the hard drive at all since it was problematic for some reason, but was not told why.  I did not have a power connector free from the power supply either. 

ok let me see if i understand so far..i conect the end to the video card(easy enough to do) then to the spare wire from the cd-rewrite and the third wire i just let hang? so where am i getting power from

If you do not have a spare power connector, you then pull the power connector off the hard drive or optical drive, attach it to the Y-splitter, attach one end of the splitter back on the drive and the remaining (3rd) end of the splitter to the video card.