Geforce question

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truescope

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I am interested in upgrading to a new video card. I prefer Geforce and am looking for either 512mb or 1 gb. The problem is that I know nothing about Geforce label jargen. In my price range I noticed a 420 card and also a 8500 card. There are also acronyms like PNY and EVGA that I don't understand. I am also worried about cards coming with the right plug for my monitor. I am aware that some cards will come with HDMI only.

Any help on this matter will be greatly appreciated.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+
M2N68-LA
2 GB Ram
nVidia Geforce 6150SE
160 GB
Mid-size ATX
250W power supply(possible upgrade needed)

As of now I am only using the computer to play lower requirement games. League of Legends I am already getting around 20 fps. But obviously higher fps would be better.
 
PNY, EVGA = Manufacturer
420, 8500 = Model

The 'Manufacturer' in this case takes the chip from nVidia and builds out the rest of the card around it. Some of them adhere to a 'reference design' provided by nVidia, and some of them implement their own tweaks or variations to the design.

VRAM is not the first part you want to look for, generally you'll look at the GPU model and then compare. A lot of budget bin 4 GB cards are paired with really slow GPU cores and perform to a lot lesser degree than a faster GPU core with 1 GB of GDDR5 or similar.

Your system is really ancient by this point, but the onboard graphics are particularly awful. You would definitely need a power supply upgrade moving forward. It may be worth contemplating upgrading the entire machine than to try to beef up a platform with such old parts.

More for a reference something like a GT 630 with 384 CUDA cores or similar wouldn't be horrendously expensive or be limited by your system to a large degree.
 
If you want a cheap upgrade just to play lol something like a radeon hd 6670 should do the job for you. Maybe radeon hd 7750 if you want more power. Anything over that wouldn't be wise with your cpu. Now those are amd cards, if you really want nvidia go for something like a gt 630/640. I recomend amd though cause they offer better price/performance when it comes to cheap cards. Also a psu upgrade will be needed. The corsair cx430 should do the job for you.
 
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Firstly, your PSU will definitely need upgrading.

This would be my selection

GTX750Ti
Corsair 430W PSU

1080p gaming and stable power.
 
Thanks you all for you quick replies, this forum has proven to be most helpful for my computer issues and is my #1 go to for help.

I do prefer the Geforce brand because I am a fan of using Linux over Windows. The problem I ran into before from Ati cards is that Ati don't publish enough drivers for Linux based system. That makes it very hard to play the games I want with a high performance OS. Windows is fine and probably the most popular. But with using windows I can have open 1 browser program and 1 game and be using 80% of my PC's resources where when running 1 browser program and 1 game with Linux I would use only around 30% of the PC's resources.
 
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