Replacing my Graphic Card

[Tijoda]

I have got to replace my ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4500/5100 series graphic card...it just doesn't cut it.

I'm looking at the EVGA 02G-P3-2637-KM NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 2048MB DDR3 PCIe 2.0 x16 Video Card

I have a Pentium Dual Core CPU E5800 @3.20 GHz, 4.0GB Ram DDR3 system memory using Windows 7 OS 64 bit

I'm not a computer expert and would like someone who understands how important the graphic card selection is to give me some feedback. Thank you.

Lisa
HD Pro 2014

[David J. Potter]

Lisa, when you say "mobility" does that mean that you are using a laptop? (they are hard to impossible to "upgrade" like a box PC).

I have used "PNY" brand NVIDIA chipped video cards for twenty years with Chief Architect Inc software. Whenever I tried another brand, I was sorry and returned to PNY. You do not have to have the bleeding edge grade video card (which are very expensive). I would suggest that you get a card with 1-2 Gb of its own RAM built into the card and then you should be fine in terms of software performance.

DJP

[2wheeltodd]

You should also consider power consumption. Be sure your power supply module can power your new card.

[rylees]

The specs you have out there are pretty impressive. What was your existing module?