Tuning and Benchmarking a Dell GX 270 SFF - upgrading the AGP video card

As seen earlier, maxing out memory and adding a dedicated video card only produced an approximate 10% performance increase. I wanted to see just how good the NVIDIA GeForce MX440 AGP card was so I went to the Passmark software site at  http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/low_end_gpus.html to compare low end video cards. I discovered that the MX440 card was really low end, scoring only a 4. I looked around for some better cards realizing I had a double handicap. First, the video slot on the GX 270 SFF was AGP and second, only a half height card would fit in the SFF case. This eliminated a LOT of cards. Looking on eBay eliminated a lot more. Eventually I found a Radeon X1300 that was AGP and half height. I got it cheap and if it works I should get a big graphics boost as it it much faster than the MX 440 - see the test page at http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Radeon+X1300 where it scored a 57!
Here is a pic:

I'm going to put it in the GX 270, swapping out the NVIDIA card, and hope I don't have driver problems.

Tuning and Benchmarking a Dell GX270 SFF P4 - Recap

I've run a series of tests on the 270 P4. Usually I run the test 3 times and take the middle score to avoid outliers. The base configuration with 1 MB of RAM and the integrated Intel 82865G video scored 86.1. Installing a NVIDIA GeForce MX440 AGP card but leaving the memory at 1 MB upped the score to 92.6.

I removed the NVIDIA card and ran the benchmarks on a config with 2 MB of RAM. It scored a 86.6.

Here is the detail:

I then reran the tests on the config with the NVIDIA GeForce MX440 with 2 MB of RAM and got a new score of 92.7.

The detailed benchmark is this:

To recap;
86.1 with original config (1 MB RAM, Intel 82865G integrated graphics),
86.8 with 2 MB RAM and the integrated Intel 82865G graphics,
92.6 with 1 MB RAM and a NVIVIA GeForce MX440 AGP video card,
92.7 with 2 MB RAM and a NVIDIA GeForce MX440 AGP video card - about a 10% increase.