Techinical Guru Wanted!

[JustAGuy]

I an considering buying a ATI Technologies Radeon 9200 128m graphics card cause:

I need a better card!

It's not too exspensive...

The problem is I have never installed something like this on a pre-built computer. This is a 2350 Dell with 1.8 Ghz cpu w/ 512 ram. My concerns:

Drivers - I am not sure how to remove the existing drivers for the old graphics card. I am assuming you would have to remove them before installing the new card to prevent any conflict.

The card - Is this a decent card for $80? I want to play some of the newer games as well as DII in 3D mode, which I never have.

As for more exspesive cards, I am not willing to pay for them, $80 - $100 is my price range :)

Edit: Didn't even think about add/remove programs :P Will that remove all the old drivers?
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I'll answer a few questions. If your pre-built computer has an AGP slot, and the new Radeon is AGP, then it should be able to be installed without a fuss. Likewise, so too should the drivers. The old driver won't be used, if the old hardware isn't installed, so no worries there.

As far as what card to buy, I'm not really the guy for that. I'm still running my GeFroce 4 Ti4200, and I'm quite happy with it.

So, to be sure, you should pop open your case and see if the video card is AGP (it better well should be!) and that it is removable. I've seen it where they glue the damn pieces to the motherboard, or that the video is on-board, and there are no AGP slots.