Grahics card for dc5750 micro tower

[cooldex]

i needed help with looking for the best graphic card for my computer my specs are

HP COMPAQ DC5750 MICRO TOWER

AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 3800+ (2.0ghz)
ati radeon xpress 1150 (need upgrade)
2gb ram (ima get 4gb)
80gb harddrive
300w psu

games i will like to play are
gta iv
mw2 & mw3
battlefield3
and other 2011 games so i was looking for the best 1gb graphics card under bout 30$ ive seen a lot under 50
but i wanted to ask professionals so im here and thanks

 

[trapper]

In all honestly I wouldn't recommend any GPU for that PC to run those games. Your CPU will hold you back as well. Your best bet would be either an entirely new PC. If that isn't an option due to money the best I could suggest would be a pre-used PS3 or 360 to play those games - or the base model of either console.

 

[cooldex]

i seen people on youtube playing gta4,battlefield3,mw3 on pentium 4 3.2ghz single cores 1gb of ram and GeForce 8400 GS 512mb of vram and also newegg has 1gb gpus geforce 8400 gs and geforce 210 for under 30$ also i know my cpu low but i was going to upgrade that to an amd atholn x2 5000+ and upgrade the ram to 8gb duel channel i have 4 slots so 2gb in each
i would want my specs to be this after all upgrades

3.oghz quadcore (slot am2 from newegg for 70$ i think i remember)
2gb gpu (bout 69$ from newegg)
8gb ram not over 40$
after that ive have my gaming rig right now i just want to make temporaly upgrades in till im finish so i can be able to play gta 4 and battlefield3 etc at medium settings till the big upgrades

 

[carowden]

just because you have 4 channels doesnt mean the motherboard supports 8 gb. if it does, it will be expensive because it is probably ddr2 ram.

also the amount of memory is not the only important factor when choosing a graphics card.

 

[carowden]

it does support 8gb after looking at the website, but if youre only spending 30 bucks on a graphics card, you might as well leave it at 2 gb

 

[cooldex]

In all honestly I wouldn't recommend any GPU for that PC to run those games. Your CPU will hold you back as well. Your best bet would be either an entirely new PC. If that isn't an option due to money the best I could suggest would be a pre-used PS3 or 360 to play those games - or the base model of either console.

it does support 8gb after looking at the website, but if youre only spending 30 bucks on a graphics card, you might as well leave it at 2 gb

so u saying when u install more then 4gb of ram it wont work with 1gb of vram

 

[trapper]

It would work. It just wouldn't be used. The system needs to be able to make use of all that ram, and with the system you have, even with an upgraded GPU and CPU you won't need more than a total of 4gb using Vista or Windows 7 64bit.

 

[cooldex]

well i guest i just want to be confident in the system i built so i go head and get 8gb later on because i like multi tasking and im always doing something new on the internet like if they were ever make some kind of xbox360 or ps3 emulator i just want to be able to run it or least be close but anyways i was looking for advise on these graphics card here which one would be best at a great price

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%204025&IsNodeId=1&name=%2425%20-%20%2450

out of the 1gb of couse

 

[josevelez23]

XFX 5750 i use to have that pc but your gonna need a 500w power supply hope this helps

 

[cooldex]

i brought this one (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500237) and i get a mail in rebate so the price is 16$ this will be my first time doing a mail in rebrate but i finale built a computer for under 60$ thats able to play most games wow my specs now till next upgrade

hp compaq dc5750

2.0ghz duel core amd atholn 64 x2 3800+
2gb of ram
GeForce 210 1GB 64-bit DDR3
80gb harddrive
windows 7 ultimate 64 bit
300w psu

and thanks for the help

 

[cooldex]

XFX 5750 i use to have that pc but your gonna need a 500w power supply hope this helps

did you know the maxium cpu watt output of the dc5750 motherboard or did upgrade it to what because ima try upgrade the cpu to some quadcore but dont know the maxium watt output