Wow. This sounds like an old machine. When you say "movies" do you mean creating and editing video and film, or just watching DVDs? If this is a gaming machine, I'd like to suggest some upgrades. The AGP slots is rough, considering the GeForce 7800 GS is currently the fastest AGP graphics card available through NVIDIA, and it isn't that much of a significant upgrade from your 7600 GS. Actually, I wouldn't call it an upgrade at all.
Also, do you have just an AGP or AGP 8x?
For video card, I would definitely recommend the GeForce 8800 GT (512mb) (PCI-E bus, however). http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130318 It's right around the $180-$150 price range and probably the BEST video card for that budget.
If you're definitely sticking to your AGP chipset, again as I said above, I don't see too much of a sense in upgrading, since even the ATI cards for AGP are all 256mb, which you already have.
If, however, you have an AGP 8x bus, then I would say the ATi Radeon X1650 PRO (512mb) is a pretty decent upgrade. http://ati.amd.com/products/radeonx1...agp/specs.html
DEFINITELY want to upgrade to atleast 2gigs of ram while running Windows XP Home (probably a 1gig card in both slots).
And a processor upgrade for sure. I suggest an Intel Core 2 Duo processor (no less then 2gigs) for sure. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115052
These are probably the best upgrades for the least amount of spending. This will get you a solid gaming PC to work off of. Might not run you DirectX 10 any time soon, but it should do very well for the majority of high end PC games out right now.Good luck!
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