Graphics Card Purchase Help???

[Blut Sohn]

I have an HP Compaq nc6320, I'd like to get a NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT graphics card or better, I'm not sure how this works, I was hoping you just take out the old one and put in a new one and not have to reboot/buy a new hard-drive...I don't know if my computer even accepts the NVIDIA 6600 GT card or not, and if not I'd like to know what one I can get that has 128MB memory or over (preferably over) and is better than the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 that's $70 and under...help is DEFINITELY appreciated this is my dxdiag specs:

OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600)
System Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
System Model: HP Compaq nc6320 (RT179UP#ABA)
BIOS: KBC Version 58.12
Processor: Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2500 @ 2.00GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 1016MB RAM
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)

I have a Plug and Play Monitor and also this is for Battlefield 2 and Combat Arms, so I need a good card but $70 and under, I have a low budget at the moment and can't afford anything over $80 help is again, definitely appreciated

By the way, what is a power dongle and would I need one?

 

[Jamin43]

For best card in your price point ( $70.00 ) it looks like Radeon 4670 or GeForce 9600 are your best technology. Rated as pretty much a tie.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-geforce-price,2323-2.html

Does your MOBO have a PCI-e slot

The long Yellow one at top of pic is PCI-e slot

Edit: I just checked your PC model for MOBO - is your PC a laptop??

 

[Blut Sohn]

yes it is a laptop, how do I get to the MOBO to find out if it has a PCI-e Slot? (I don't know anything really about taking apart computers)

 

[Damascus]

Laptops use onboard graphics - and cannot be upgraded. A "graphics card", in either AGP or PCI-E are for desktop motherboards.
By "onboard", I mean that you're laptop's motherboard has the "video card's" chip (the GPU) built onto the motherboard, and a PCI-E (PCI Express) slot is a slot on a desktop motherboard for adding a video card, which has it's own GPU and memory, and doesn't need to share the system memory, like onboard graphics has to.