Upgrade Question

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Hi guys,

I'm in the process of trying to upgrade a graphics card in an old-ish PC. I have tried finding the answer to this question but to no avail - what is the best graphics card i can upgrade to for my motherboard?

I have included some information and hope that someone can point me to a GPU that will fit the bill.

Additional Information

I have upgraded the PSU to 500W
additonally, the PC is running 32-bit windows 10 Pro, but my Processor is X64 based I am thinking of upgrading the RAM to at lease 4GB (8GB if my MOBO agrees?) and then re-installing windwos 10 Pro X64. I understand that Windows 10 requires SSE2 EM64T and VT-x to run smoothly. Which I conform to.

Thanks guys.

[Compton]

video VisionTek Radeon 4350 512MB DDR2 (DVI-I, HDMI, VGA) Graphics Card - 900270


yes you can upgrade the memory to 8GB

NEW! 8GB (2x4GB) DDR2-800MHz Desktop Memory PC2-6400 RAM
by Samsung

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(01-25-2016, 12:25 PM)Compton Wrote:  video VisionTek Radeon 4350 512MB DDR2 (DVI-I, HDMI, VGA) Graphics Card - 900270

Thanks Compton, but that's a smaller card than what I already have! I have 1GB card already, what I was trying to find out is what is the biggest (in Mb) card my motherboard is capable of running?

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Would either of these two cards run on the motherboard?

Card One

or this one?

Card Two

and if they are both compatible, which would be better?

[Timster]

The R7 370 is a better card.
R7 370 vs R7 240
Your motherboard will run that card.

I think the biggest concern I would have is your processor. Running the R7 with that core 2/ 2.33Ghz will bottleneck.

[Compton]

this biggest great video card that will work on your motherboard aton nVidia GeForce 9500GT 1 GB DDR2 VGA/DVI/HDTV PCI-Express Low Profile Video Card

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I think the R7 370 vs R7 240 are too much for that motherboard and CPU

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(01-25-2016, 02:17 PM)Timster Wrote:  The R7 370 is a better card.
R7 370 vs R7 240
Your motherboard will run that card.

I think the biggest concern I would have is your processor. Running the R7 with that core 2/ 2.33Ghz will bottleneck.

Thanks Timster, yeah, I was concerned about the processor, but hoped that I could get away with just ram and a new card. If I go down the whole changing the processor route, that means a new MB and in the end It would probably not be very cost effective.

(01-25-2016, 02:19 PM)Compton Wrote:  this biggest great video card that will work on your motherboard aton nVidia GeForce 9500GT 1 GB DDR2 VGA/DVI/HDTV PCI-Express Low Profile Video Card

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I think the R7 370 vs R7 240 are too much for that motherboard and CPU

Thanks for your help Compton, but I think I will maybe build a new once from scratch, maybe I'll follow one of Brian's video's for a budget gaming pc.
It just seems such a shame to get rid of a working PC just because you can't play games on it... but hey, kids these days just don't like proper games like Pacman, Asteroids and Galaxia!!!

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(01-25-2016, 12:25 PM)Compton Wrote:  video VisionTek Radeon 4350 512MB DDR2 (DVI-I, HDMI, VGA) Graphics Card - 900270

Thanks Compton, but that's a smaller card than what I already have! I have 1GB card already, what I was trying to find out is what is the biggest (in Mb) card my motherboard is capable of running?