[QUOTE=My graphics card is an ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO[/QUOTE]

Do you mean Radeon HD 4200?

Someone on a tech site tested a 4200 against an Intel (I think) 4500HD and found the 4200 used only 15% of processor doing high def TV (1080) versus the 4500 using 60%. So for a graphics accelerator, not a true video card, it looks pretty decent.

No i have 2400 -.-

this.
a fast hard drive and ram will affect poker performance with HEM more than anything alse. Any CPU + vid card from the past 6 years can handle the poker clients.

wtf, you guys get serious about OS and ****, so I'll just say that XP can support up to 4GB of RAM and not 3GB.

Also, I remember multi-tabling both Paradise and Planet poker simultaneously on a 486 with 64MB of RAM, 8MB video card on a 56.6K dialup modem. Of course there were no huds, etc....

Like others have mentioned, if your hd is a pos, it doesn't matter how fast anything else is. For example, a killer SSD for the operating system and database would make HM blaze.

XP 32 bit:

No matter how much ram a board or the 32-bit version of the OS supports, a single application cannot address more than 2GB of RAM. With the right compiler flag and a boot.ini switch set, you could presumably increase that limit to 3GB, though there has been no definitive evidence of this actually working.

Operating systems based on Microsoft Windows NT technologies have always provided applications with a flat 32-bit virtual address space that describes 4 gigabytes (GB) of virtual memory. The address space is usually split so that 2 GB of address space is directly accessible to the application and the other 2 GB is only accessible to the Windows executive software.

Here is a rundown on physical memory support.
Windows XP Home & Pro -- 4GB (the user will only be privy to roughly 3.0-3.25GB of that, due to OS overhead and memory mapping.)
Windows XP Pro x64 Editions -- 16GB

What u might need is to reinstall winblows. It sounds like it's confused. If it were me then I would save everything I want..pics, phots etc.
Then download a copy of unbuntu-- it's free, it will ask u to write it to a cd. This is linux so when u set it to use the whole drive it will over write any malware, logic extension bugs etc.
After u have done that.. takes about 20 minutes.. then reinstall winblows from scratch.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/iBuypower-...Specifications
solid value and already has graphics card needed for dual screens

Dual core? meh... That would be a downgrade from his current quad core.
I would not recommend buying a dual core anymore, considering the low price of the quad cores. Dual cores are not worth it anymore, IMO.


From the walmart site:
LOL

Lol fisherman,

AMD has the 95w black edition Kuma 7850 chip... it's a quad core with 2 cores turned off.
It has an extra L3 cache, mostly used to keep extra data exchange traffic between cores from choking the cpu bus. The black edition Kuma 7850 sells for 48 bucks at newegg. You can turn on the other two cores giving you a quad, but I found it's actually faster in intense hyper-threading just to leave the two cores.

For those of us with older am2/am2+ mobo's, it's a steal!!

Honestly, your computer is powerful enough to handle more than 8 tables and HEM without any problems. You mentioned that you upgraded your CPU but probably didn't reinstall windows. Windows is weird like that and an upgrade of a CPU may cause problems if you don't reinstall windows from the DVD. I know it's a pain, but backup your important data, reformat the hard disk, and install everything from scratch.