Buying a video card

You need an all new PC.

The Celeron D is a bit obsolete and will be a performance bottleneck. The 250w PSU limits your best GPU selection to the HD 4670. It's a good mainstream card, but depending on how high you set your gaming standards, it may not last 2 years.

Unfortunately $400 does buy you much of a PC so my recommendation is to hang tight and save some more money. Another $200 will allow you to buy a decent $500 with $100 for a decent video card.

Try to sell that pos you have locally....you should be able to get a few bucks for it...find someone stupid enough to give you alot

And save up

You could get a lot better of a pc if you waited...you could probably get in on a Phenom 2 X4 or X3 and with that cpu you would have a pc to last atleast 3 years cpu wise and you could get a decent graphics card as well....you are best off to wait and not blow what little you have now on a system that will only game in already released titles...etc

Link to your pc? do you even know if it has pcie? or just agp?

Edit: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 883107288R

That is your pc...ewww

And you could run HL2 TF2 and Battlefield...NO CRYSIS...but that is it...you would probably be hard stressed to run cod and any new games on the horizon...save your money and make a lasting purchase..

YES that is exactly what we can do for you....

Im not the best at recommending hardware because i like to do alot of research before i buy....you want a phenom!

Il let someone pick the best parts for you depending on your resolution etc

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Comb [...] mbo.183504

The 920 would be pretty good...someone can chime in on if that board is the best...

Here are the list of combos for that cpu...or you could find a better board alone maybe

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] =10&page=1

You need to post the resolution you will be gaming at...you will want to get new ram for your new machine don't worry its cheap as can be these days

You should be able to even keep your pc under 1000$ and still get a bitching machine setup

Don't buy anything yet...im just suggesting the phenom as it will get you pretty far without upgrading

Wait for someone to pop in here and make suggestions as iv not read up alot on the best combinations of the phenom

If we can we should see if we can't get you a new monitor in this build as well...i recommend going with a nice 22" 16xx/1xxx monitor and that will get you a pretty nice setup

If we can't fit the monitor in the budget right away i recommend you get a gpu to power that 22" and wait a week or two to get you a nice monitor as there getting pretty cheap and a 16xx/1xxx monitor doesn't cost alot gpu wise to run so you save a few bucks instead of going with 19xx/10xx