When it comes to speed ALWAYS watch your Virtual Memory and Ram. Sounds obvious but you have no idea the MASSIVE difference an extra 512mb of Ram can make. Also if you got very little space on ur Virtual Memory Hard Drive then free some up and you should see an improvement.
I have that same card you do with a 2.6 Sempron 512mb Ram, SATA HD ect... and it runs well good.
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