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I am now going to show two graphic related upgrades I would make to this system. I have highlighted the upgrades i have chosen in the system spec.

System specification

Intel Pentium D 'Dual Core X2' CPU (5.3 Ghz)
VIA Chipset 1066 Mhz Motherboard - slots available: AGP8x (1), PCI (3), RAM (2); ports available: LAN (1), USB (6)
512 MB RAM
80 GB HDD (SATA300)
18X DVD+/-RW Dual Layer & Dual Format
onboard UniChrome PRO 3D Graphics with 64 MB shared memory
mouse and keyboard
15" flat screen
cheap inkjet printer

Upgrade one
I would improve the graphics card because the one that is in at the moment has a very low amount of cache memory. The more cache memory you have the more strain this will take off the computer. The current card is not set up for advanced graphics packages which would need. This would give the system better quality images.

Upgrade two
I would also increase the RAM from 512Mb to at least 1Gb. This would increase how much a can do at a time. The current system memory is causing a bottleneck. This is due to a lot of things such as graphics programs and windows being stored on the RAM this cause the system to use the spare space on the hard drive.