Graphics Card to Upgrade in the Future

YOu should be fine with a HD7770 or faster. You need a PSU to match whatever you choose though. I personally recommend the following (aside from you getting a more standard resolution).

PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341051
AMD GPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202010
Nvidia GPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130826

The AMD option is far faster and will handle anything you throw at it.

EDIT: Just saw budget. Adopting for that.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341051
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202004
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130841

Again, the AMD option is much faster. If you can expand the budget by $30 or so, the first list is much higher performance.
 
yes. Your HP computer's power supply is not a quality unit. It will barely power whats in it. Start changing things around and it will blow up.

That card is fine. It is not much of an upgrade, but it will work.
 
EDIT : Are there any cheaper power supplies? (Like $50 dollars or so)

Also, you said it won't be much of an upgrade, Isn't the graphics memory on that card 2gb and mine is 1gb that would mean that it would be double the speed of the card I have right now?
 
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no. The speed of the cad is determined by the number of cores, the speed of teh cores, the speed of the memory, and the architecture of the cores, and the memory BUS width.

the memory is unneeded. on a 650ti, your going to run out of processing power a long time before you get to 2GB vRam usage.

more or less a HD7870 would be double as fast as what you have. A GTX660ti is more or less equal to that.

And you don't want to cheap out on the PSU. The one I linked is high quality and fully modular. That is important because your care has no wire management, meaning you don't want any more cables than is required for your hardware.
Cheaper, yet still quality units would be:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817256065
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151088
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341017
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151093
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139048
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371058
 
Thanks for all the help, also one last question. What specs do I look at in the graphics card to find out how good / fast it is?
 
within the same company, look at the number of cores, the memory BUS, and the speed of memory and cores. Across companies, look them up on anandtech.com under bench -> 2012 GPU.
 
They may need the same amount of watts, but come a year or 2 you won't have enough power in your PSU. HP literally puts exactly how much power they need out the door. Capacitor aging quickly makes it not enough.

You can take your chances if you want, but if it blows up, we warned you.
 
MiniMatt said:
will my legs be blown up too? how big is the explosion?
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Huge. Take out a city block. lol.


No. By blow up I don't mean an actual explosion. It means that you stand a chance of an electrical overload, which will damage pretty much everything connected to it besides the case.
 
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