Thanks a lot guys! So far it seems like the suggestions that Xeros made are looking like the best ones. They are just over budjet, which is OK since it's not by too much, and it definitely will be worth the extra for the performance.

It will Depend if your Motherboard can take these upgrades.

Jordanserg31

That's why I posted the model of my PC. Because I don't know a whole lot about this stuff. So unless each one happens to come with a different motherboard, do you have any insight as to those upgrades and the model of my PC?

Sup dudes. I've got the HP p6320y desktop and am interested in upgrading the graphics and power supply. Anyone have and advice? Maybe point me in the direction of some good cards/supplies to check out? I'm new to all of this and I'd like to be able to have some quality graphics for gaming. They don't have to be the best on the market or anything but I'd like them to be decent. Of course, I don't have a ton of cash to spare so my total budget is looking like $200? Idk if that will get me much. Thanks guys let me know if anyone's got suggestions.

I also noticed that after i had forwarded the ports my nat became strict. anyone have any insight at all?

the funny thing is it's happened to me all along but only with my cousin. and only like i said like 25% of the time or even less it will not connect. I've read all about the port forwarding and thought that fixed it, which i found out was not true earlier today. It's just odd and annoying that one day out of the week it wont work. like, i bet tomorrow it will work just fine. but when it happens it sucks

First of all, I've never had any issues connecting Live. Neither has my cousin, which is who i play with the most. However, periodically (moreso lately for some reason) we have been having problems connecting to each other. "Cannot connect to xbox live party there may be network issues" or whatever the message says. Also it will not allow either of us to connect to each other's game in progress.

Last night we were having the issue and he did the whole port forward thing, still didn't work. So then I forwarded my ports. From there, everything worked just fine and we were able to cruise around Liberty City with no issues.

So just now we try again, mind you nothing has changed from last night...nothing, and same problem. Can't connect. Can anyone help me out here? I don't understand why it would just not work. Not to mention why in the past it works probably 75% of the time.

Thanks