mlga91 :
The motherboard is not a problem there, you can slap any modern video card there, now you need to post what PSU do you have.
Sorry guys, I was away. It is Coolermaster Silent Pro 600W.
Good to hear the motherboard is not a problem. There always having been problems with this thing since we got it I was all the time thinking that basically it might be an incompatibility issue. No such thing, eh? Good.
To educate me a little on the video card thing - could I just go down the list of Radeon's offerings and take it that the more recent the card the better it will be?
I have such a list I downloaded. I see the 5000 series, which I assume is what that 5700 was, came out in 2009.
Then there's the 6000, then 7000 the R series.
If I'm shopping, especially if I was shopping on eBay and such for used items, I could just go for any 6000 or 7000 series card and know it'd improve his graphics?
And, incidentally, what would be the graphics it's running on now, without a card? That Intel HD mentioned in the Belarc sheet?
And lastly is it wise to buy used or really unwise? Would you say. Bit of a guess I imagine. The price difference gets quite large I think. Or not? The resale value falls of quickly or slowly?
p.s. One more: got caught a few times in my ignorance by this: what slot type? PCIe good for it? And only that?
p.p.s. Budget: Oh, max at say $150 and I'd need convincing there was some real value in there for that.
I see R7's on ebay, new, for $110. Would they be good? The numbers I quoted don't always match the numbers in these eBay listings. Seem to change according to manufacturer perhaps. I wonder where I got my listing from. I was thinking Radeon was the manufacturer.... wrong...