Picking a new graphics card

[MrChewy]

Hi, I'm looking to upgrade my current graphics card. It'd be nice if it was about $100 or less and decent gaming performance.

processor: AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 240 Processor 2.80 GHz
my current graphics card is NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430

 

[inzone]

If you have an Evga 430 and you only want to spend $100 or less you are not goig to get much of an increase. Take a look at this link ; http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130625
and see if that is something you can swing , it would be a good increase from what you have and it does have a rebate.
The other thing you might try is if you registered your card on the Evga web site and it is less than 90 days ago they do have a step up program you could try.

 

[rjkucia]

If you have an Evga 430 and you only want to spend $100 or less you are not goig to get much of an increase. Take a look at this link ; http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130625
and see if that is something you can swing , it would be a good increase from what you have and it does have a rebate.
The other thing you might try is if you registered your card on the Evga web site and it is less than 90 days ago they do have a step up program you could try.

He has the GeForce 6150SE, 430 is just the northbridge. What he has now is integrated. Honestly, any dedicated graphics card will get you far better performance than you get now. Every couple months Tom's posts an article with the best graphics cards for the money, check those out and get the best you're willing to pay for. I definitely wouldn't recommend paying over $100 with the CPU you have, though.

 

[O762]

You could also try a 5770. It's better than your current one, but not as good as the one Inzone suggested.

 

[rjkucia]

Here's the article I was referring to http://bit.ly/nxRT69

 

[ZenithCS]

It depends on what monitor resolution you will play the games on. If your monitor has the resolution of 1680x1050 or below then Radeon HD 6670 (GDDR5 version) is a very good card. It's a little bit below $100 too.
But if you play on 1920x1080 or more then you may have to upgrade the whole system.