Power supply or video card?

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cleonjones

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Well I have an HP computer that was given to me, it didn't have a graphics card and my old 8800GTX burned out so I bought a Geforce 210. The power supply is one made just for HP computers and it is a 320W PSU. My old system was an older AMD dual-core and 1GB of ram and after my video card died I wanted to wait to get a new system but a friend gave me this PC

The system is decent but I don't really get great performance in games at all. I was thinking maybe the stock PSU just can't power my video card right? I have a 500W PSU but it would mean I have to buy a new mobo, IDK what my best course would be

My system:
320W psu
Intel Core 2 Duo 3.6 GHz
4 GB DDR3-1333
Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
GeForce 210
 
Solution
Maybe a gt 220 1G, it will almost double the performance or a 4650, maybe even a gt240. But buy second hand, no use paying a lot of money for just a short time of use.
The 220 uses about the same as the 210, the 240 a bit more but still in limits i think.