Graphic card worth upgrading ?

I have late 2005 PowerMac G5 ,7.3 2.0 with 4 GB Ram still using the ATI Radeon 9600. The computer still works great ! But I recently started playing a Golf game online ( Tiger Woods PGA Online ) and I am staring to get artifacts when it reloads the page after each shot and the color and detail is not as good.
Looking at replacing the card with the Radeon X800XT.
I am wasting my money on the tower?
Thanks for any advice.

Hi-
I always consider a graphics card upgrade to be worth it, especially when coming from a weak graphics card.
As for wasting money or not, if the machine does what you want but could do it better with an upgrade, and you can afford that upgrade, I wouldn't call it a waste.
Only you can make the final "value" judgement.

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