Question help please

[marcoos]

im after getting a cheap 1gb graphics card for my oldish system which has got
ECS > GeForce6100PM-M2 (V7.0/V7.1) mother board 4gb ddr2 ram amd athlon iix4 645 processer can anybody advise what i would need ? what im using now is an old nvidea gforce 210 i only want to use it for emulators many thanks

 

[ElectrO_90]

Just buy whatever you want is the cheapest.
You will have no problem running it as long as it doesn't require external power (since we don't know what your psu is)

 

[marcoos]

Just buy whatever you want is the cheapest.
You will have no problem running it as long as it doesn't require external power (since we don't know what your psu is)

the psu is a 250w

 

[ElectrO_90]

So you can buy anything that doesn't draw more than 50 watts.
250 is very low

 

[marcoos]

So you can buy anything that doesn't draw more than 50 watts.
250 is very low
[/Q how would? i find out if a certain one would draw more than 50 watts?many thanks

 

[ElectrO_90]

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1030 seems ideal for modern use
But if you see a cheap GPU secondhand you want, just google that model and add power consumption to the end of it

 

[Calvin7]

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