I was going to add additional memory as the first upgrade to the base unit, but the integrated graphics chip bombed the 3D benchmarking test a couple of times so I decided to do a quick video upgrade. I added back the NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 AGP card and when I rebooted the BIOS automatically recognized the card and overrode the integrated chip. I ran 4 tests and the 3D test showed a 7.5% improvement while the memory test got 4.7% faster probably because the video card has its own memory and doesn't have to share system memory like the integrated chip.
Overall the system performance achieved a 7% speed increase with the video card upgrade.
Next step will be a memory upgrade.
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