ATI Radeon HD3200 Upgrade Needed

[m11xm11x]

I need to update this old gateway GT5692 with a ATI Radeon HD3200 graphics card installed. I would like to upgrade to the best performance/cost configuration. This machine was originally a Vista machine that has been updated to 7 recently. Thank you forr your help.

 

[clutchc]

Are you looking for an upgrade to the graphics card? If so, please list the size PSU in the Gateway, and give me an idea of your budget.
Is this an upgrade for gaming? If so, what CPU is in the Gateway?

 

[m11xm11x]

Are you looking for an upgrade to the graphics card? If so, please list the size PSU in the Gateway, and give me an idea of your budget.
Is this an upgrade for gaming? If so, what CPU is in the Gateway?

Gateway GT5692 Specifications
The specs for GT5692 comes in these configurations with a retail price tag. The configuration Gateway provides comes with a AMD Phenom 8450 Processor (2.10GHz)
AMD 780G Chipset , .

This Gateway Computer can take up to 8GB ram, with a fixed amount of 0MB installed PC2-5300 DDR2-667 240pin DIMM.

 

[m11xm11x]

Gateway GT5692 Specifications
The specs for GT5692 comes in these configurations with a retail price tag. The configuration Gateway provides comes with a AMD Phenom 8450 Processor (2.10GHz)
AMD 780G Chipset , .

This Gateway Computer can take up to 8GB ram, with a fixed amount of 0MB installed PC2-5300 DDR2-667 240pin DIMM.
The computer has the original power supply (400w)

 

[m11xm11x]

I do udse this for gaming....wow is my inteded target. Again thank you.

 

[dontlistentome]

The main issue will be motherboard compatibility. The newer cards work best with UEFI motherboards, which yours is too old to be. The other issue is WoW can be demanding on CPUs, and yours is an old triple core. I think if you put a GTX 750 Ti in there, or AMD RX 460, that's about the best you could hope for in performance. It might not be worth it, I suggest you go on Youtube and see what kind of performance you can expect with cards like that.

 

[clutchc]

I do udse this for gaming....wow is my inteded target. Again thank you.

By coincidence, until recently I had a similar Phenom X3 8650 (2.3GHz) in a DDR2 system. It was able to run nicely with my GTX 1050 Ti, but I never checked to see how much CPU bottleneck there was. However, it played light single player games pretty smoothly if I didn't go crazy with settings. But the GTX 750 Ti would probably be a better balance for you. I suspect online on a busy server, the aging triple core would choke pretty bad, though.