need help finding a graphics card

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#1 fishypiggy
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can someone help me find a 256mb graphics card? thats under $40. i need it to be able to handle lord of the rings online. thx in advance

p.s. also ive noticed on some graphics card it will say like 64mb shared. what does this mean

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#2 cspiffo
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Save up a little longer and get at least an Nvidia 7600 or a ATI x1600. They run about $80 minimum. Your budget is too low.

Shared memory is usually what you see in laptops or computers with built in graphics adapters. It means that the main system memory is shared between the graphics applications and system applications.

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#3 markop2003
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do not get a graphics card with shared memory and get one with at least 256mb of memory which is a Nvidia 7 series or a ATI x1900 series atleast