Acer ax1420g-u5832 was a bad buy

[mrkabon]

I shouldn't have bought this computer. But now I'm stuck with it. Everything is great except the graphic card. To get a new graphics card I may need a new power supply. It has NVIDIA® GeForce® 6150SE graphics and a 220W power supply. It's a little computer with no room in it. I need a low profile graphics card, that hopefully doesn't need a new power supply (no room), to play Black Ops. I am not a big gamer, I'll play on the lowest graphic settings, I don't care about things like that. I just need a lot more than 4 to 6 fps, it's unplayable. What the best way to go for the lowest price tag?

 

[ncc74656]

acer is a low end brand and this has a very old CPU/MB in it so dont expect it to blow you away with graphics. any higher end card will take more than 220W of power, ods are your coming close to maxing that as is. the PSU in that is not standard sized so it will be hard to get a new one with out a new case or spenending more money on a odd form factor.

you can build this up if you want or swap cases to fit a full sized video card. outside of that this is about the best card you can get:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102958

 

[C12Friedman]

If you have a PCIe slot, you could try something like the ASUS ENGT430/DI/1GD3(LP) GeForce GT 430 (Fermi) 1GB 128-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Low Profile Ready Video Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121397
got one in my AMD build - don't know about gaming though since I do that on my i5 machine anymore but I would think you would be okay at med settings

 

[mrkabon]

I have old full size cases. How hard is it to pull the guts out of one machine and put it a larger case?

 

[robustus64]

Its easy really once you have done it a time or two but as a noob it can be daunting but keep in mind there are a ton of how to videos and such just do some research and you will be ok in the swap.

 

[Zritter]

You can fit the low profile radeon 6670 cards from Saphire or Powercolor right in there and they run on a max of around 60w so you can get away with running on the original 220w PSU. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131469 or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102958 ...... just dont upgrade the graphics driver beyond AMD Catalyst 11.5b as the crappy MB doesnt like the 2.1 drivers.