Video/Graphics Card to raise Windows Vista Readiness Score

If your like model desktop PC is like mine, then your Vista Readiness score for video/graphics/gaming is the lowest of all of the scores, or somewhere under 3. I would like to improve that score with an add of video/graphic card. I am not looking to go too wild, I just want to bring that score up to be on par of the rest of scores of 4-5 to a little over 5. Is there any recommendations from anyone who has tried this. What card did you use? One that will not eat up too much memory The addition of more memory will be my first step ahead of this one. I am not into gaming much, I just want my PC to work not so hard when displaying graphics and video.
Anyone, any idea?
Thanks,
dlfetters
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Message Edited by andyP on 12-24-2008 06:36 PM

About six months ago I installed an NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT.  My graphics score is 5.9 and the Gaming graphics score is 5.6.  It installed easily, and I haven't had any problems with it.
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