New graphic card

[huntress]

i recently purchased a few games for my pc, now i can play them for short periods of time before they cut off on me. i downloaded this program to see whats going on, and it says its my graphic card that is coming up short. i have the ati radeon hd 3200 that came with my gateway when i purchased it. tts been awesome up till now with the newer games, im wondering what graphic card can i use with my pc.
what type of graphic card can i get with this pc? any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks
I have a
Gateway
AMD Phenom X4 915e
processor: 9150e quad-core processor ( 4 cpus, ~1.8Ghz
memory: 4.00 gb
Direct X 11
Windows Vista home prem.
service pack 2
64-bit Operating system

my graphic card is the
ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
size:256 Mbytes
Bus Width 32 bits

is that enough information?

 

[whooleo]

Well the Radeon 3200 is very weak for today and for when it came out. I believe that it is also an IGP not sure but you're going to need a better GPU for gaming.

 

[huntress]

thing im worried about is what can my system handle? Im looking at a few newer graphic cards just thing is, if my system cant handle them i'd be buying a whole new system and i dont want to do that, my pc is good for now. i dont lag at games, just need a newer graphic card . and how can i tell if i have a pci express. i have a pci slot but not sure about the pci express? been reading it needs to be compatible with the motherboard too. soo much into this.

 

[otoliflands]

Get the CPUID
It will tell everything about your system !

 

[wa1]

Wow, that's a long post, really, you don't need to post like that, you can use CPU-Z:
http://www.cpuid.com/downloads/cpu-z/1.58-setup-en.exe

Install that and tell us ALL of your components there...


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