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I was wondering i there are any software that incrase graphics or anything like that. If there are then what are some good ones?:grin:

Hi Yusco, what exactly do you want to do?
The only way to increase the performance of your graphics card, if that's what you want to do' is by choosing a lower resolution, refresh rate or bit settings. Changing back from 32/24-bit to 16-bit will put less pressure on your graphicscard and is hardly noticeable.
If you want to 'push your card to the limit' which is strongly advice against. You can overlock (change the frequency the card works at) the card. You can do this either in the bios, when you have a motherboard which supports this feature. Or you can do it using software, or somtetimes, a registry tweak.
I strongly advice against this because:
- The card will generate much more heat, without proper cooling the card will be fried and, when you really have bad luck, other components will also be fried. So get a good cooler on the card.
- Since the graphicscard is working much harder, and is not built for overclocking, errors can occur, because the card needs to process data quicker then it was built for. This can result in minor problems like a screen not rendered like it should be, to crashes of your computer

If you really want to get better graphics, pushing the card to the limit isn't the best solution, upgrading your hardware, memory, cpu, graphicscard, is.
If you have any other questions about this I'll be glad to answer them for you.
Bram
ps. the overclocking can also be done with the cpu but the same risks apply

ok. thanx for the tip, but now i have another problem. What is good graphics card for a short budget ($70-100)? Ati? NVidia? I have "Intel(R) 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV" I believe it is as updated as i can get it. Can i put another graphics card driver or somthing over this? I want to spend as little as possible.

P.S. DO you know of any (cable) internet boosters? I already have "BeFaster" and "Modem Booster".

Ah, the current card is onboard. The videochip is aboard the motherboard. Buying a videocard, will definately improve graphics performance. Since not every card is compatible I need to know which motherboard, brand and type, you have. If you don't know you can download everest home http://www.lavalys.com and see which motherboard you have there. Both ati and nvidia are good, though I prefer nvidia above ati (personal preference). comparing some cards, ati is a little better comapred to nvidia, and the other way around. But, since you have onboard graphics, buying any card will improve performance. :-)

EDIT, whoops, didn't see your second question. About internet boosters, nope I don't know of any real good. Usually turning off the proxysettings and finetuning your firewall will take you a long way.

I dont belive i have proxy settings and if i do then help me out, and what do i tweak on my firewall?

P.S. im downloading the hardware thing.... and some other things i have 7 min. left.

You can goto start->control panel->internet options->connection->settings. There you can see whether a proxy has been set.
Your firewall, well, my mistake, I didn't mean tweaking, but changing, sorry LOL. Some firewalls really slow down your traffic such as the norton firewall. Tiny firewall and zonealarm slow your connection down the least in my experience.
Have you also tried running a online speedtest to see how fast your connection is at the moment? Most internet connections are capped at a certain speed, so let's say you have a 512kbit connection and download at let's say 60Kbyte/s (1 kilobyte=8kilobit) you can't really increase your connection. You always experience a little slowing down compared to the speed you should receive. On the other hand, when you have the 512kbit connection and download at about 30Kbyte/s there's something fishy going on (or a sudden boost in traffic at your ISP)

Ok. It says that i have "Asus P4G533-LA".