Do you think you could help me to find a graphics card for my friend? [half life 2] [integrated graphics]

Q: He says he can spend $ 100, he has a $ 400 Dell (including the price of the monitor), and wants to play for something better than integrated graphics. He has a 2.9Ghz celery, 256MB ram, 40gig hdd, you get the picture. He should play at 1280×1024, and the absolute worst game he probably will ever play (in terms of graphic stress), the half life 2/CS source. All other games as Dungeon Siege, etc. I was thinking 7300GS, but do you think you could find something better?

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Steam for me all excited! (Sigh) [half life 2] [zone alarm]

Q: Half Life 2 purchased today. Installed. No problems yet. When I try to execute, it tells me it is unable to connect to Steam. It seems that it tries to work steam. I even disabled my zone alarm and Im still the same.

Steam is temporarily unavailable, please try later

is what he says every time I double click on steam. Any ideas?

TIA

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What video card would you recommend? [half life 2] [doom 3]

Q: Hi everyone, I just bought this computer and Im waiting for her to come in the mail. Im looking to be able to see what video card I should be able to play Doom 3 and Half Life 2 pretty well . if at all possible. Preferably if I could find anywhere on the map below for $ 100. I am very new to this is if I could help I would really appreciate it.

Sempron 2200 + system I think its like 1.6 GHz or similar that
ECS motherboard
GX 741 (Supported CPU: AMD K7 Athlon XP / Athlon

X800 Pro give corrupted textures in HL2 [half life 2] [video card]

Q: I have this video card and immediately acting Cownipples up.

My Half Life 2 is that I corrupt textures. The thing is that at first, everything looks ok. But as the game goes along, more and more things get corrupted (Namur, walls, guns, bullets, everything)

Im think that if the game plays, the video card gets hotter, so I dont know.

Can someone help me figure out whats on wrong with this?

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Q: Three in total, this is about 800k

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This one used so it is 1894×1161 3.14mb

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This another Print Screen shot 3.56mb full 1920×1200

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