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Graphics card Master
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tell us the rest of your specs. PSU (make and model), CPU, RAM. There may be no point puttin in a video card if you still wont be able to play games well, due to your other specs being poor.

Well with that board the best cpu you could possibly have is a athlon 4800+ at 2.5 ghz, so I guess that card is about the best you can do before your cpu would start to hold you back.
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The only other card you might look at is a 5570 which if you are looking at newegg should be within $5 of a 4670 (5570 has 80 more shaders 400 vs 320 on the 4670 and it also gives you DX11 [not that it matters]) but it is a thought you shouldn't be paying more than $55 for either of these cards. As a thought for your next upgrade I would go for a decent PSU and Case (your front panel will likely not support a Retail motherboard at least I haven't seen an OEM case that did).
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An HD 6670 is the best you can get for that weak of a power supply. It actually uses less power than an HD 4670 (which would work as well). As long as the card doesn't need an external power connector you'll be fine.

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Graphics card Master
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I agree that the HD 6670 is good choice on budget

question - do you have full size (7 in) or half size case (3.5in)?

you might need low profile card (half height)



A HD 4670 is a little stronger than a HD 4650

this was my HD 4650 playing Crysis Warhead at 1920x1080 Gamer setting
keep in mind that the recording process robbed some FPS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxf0Xz0s0RQ

so yes a HD 4670 will play most games @ medium settings at 1920x1080
even the newest games will run at reduced resolutions and graphic details
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I had a very similar computer and put a 4670 in it. It worked great until I could finally build my own rig. Runs all source games at max and handles games like mw2 and others very easily.
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