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"A few questions about my upgraded PC"

I have upgraded my PC from a 900mhz AMD Athlon and 128MB of 100mhz SDRAM to a 2.40Ghz P4 with 256MB of 333mhz DDR RAM with a GA-8SIMLH motherboard. But this has ment my old GeForce 2 32MB graphics card is unusable (3v AGP rather than the 1.5v) so I am useing the in built VGA at the mo, with 32mb of the DDR RAM allocated to it. My question is why does the computer run slower playing games (it is faster than it used to be running programs etc) than it used to? Is this due to the inbuilt VGA graphics taking up RAM and processing power? I have a new graphics card coming, will that sort out the prob, or are some of my options set wrong?
Oh, and one last thing, will unistalling the VGA when I have the new Graphics card turn the VGA off, as the only option in the bios is to change the amount of RAM allocated to it, or how would I turn the VGA off?

Many Thanks
S.A.

Don't know about the rest, but I'd say the rubbish performance is due to using the onboard chip.

I have upgraded my PC from a 900mhz AMD Athlon and 128MB of 100mhz SDRAM to a 2.40Ghz P4 with 256MB of 333mhz DDR RAM with a GA-8SIMLH motherboard. But this has ment my old GeForce 2 32MB graphics card is unusable (3v AGP rather than the 1.5v) so I am useing the in built VGA at the mo, with 32mb of the DDR RAM allocated to it. My question is why does the computer run slower playing games (it is faster than it used to be running programs etc) than it used to? Is this due to the inbuilt VGA graphics taking up RAM and processing power? I have a new graphics card coming, will that sort out the prob, or are some of my options set wrong?
Oh, and one last thing, will unistalling the VGA when I have the new Graphics card turn the VGA off, as the only option in the bios is to change the amount of RAM allocated to it, or how would I turn the VGA off?

Many Thanks
S.A.