I got my PC later than my friends and I knew nothing about PC's, so I went to my computer teacher and he wrote PC specs on paper and told me to go with that to the store. It was Athlon XP 2000+ with 256MB RAM, MX440 64MB, 80GB HDD. I bought that PC with Win XP and NFS: Hot pursuit pre installed. That game got me hooked up an later I got Max payne 2 and Colin Mcrae 04. It really lagged with MX440 and I went to my teacher again and he sudgested me to buy ATI 9600 128MB. When I saw improvement in graphics performance I played more and more games that had good graphics and started to learn what is the difference between graphics cards and how to make my PC run faster. That is how it started