PC Gaming

[Sloan1979]

I recently purchased Call of Duty World at War, and my PC wont run it.  I've been told that I need a faster Graphics Card and I'm stuck as to which ones are compatible and in my budget($100 gift card)

[jondo99]

what ever you do don't go and buy a cheap one.  Graphics cards have a very wide range and if you buy one of the lower priced models you will be screwed.

In many cases it is better to buy one of the top graphics cards from a previous year then a lower model of a current generation.

For example this is an excellent card 

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/PNY+-+NVIDIA+GeForce+9800+GT+1GB+GDDR3+PCI+Express+Graphics+Card/8968094...

The 9800 is a great graphics card and it came out about a year and a half ago. 

Now there are a bunch of other factors that you need to consider such as how many volts is your power supply?  This is very important because some graphics cards require that you have at least 600 watt powersupply. 

Anyhow if you could list all of your computer stats it would help to get a better idea of what graphics card will work best for you.

[Sloan1979]

Thanx for helping me.  My power supply says 250w max.  I have a AMD Sempron processor LE-1250, 2.21Ghz, 2.93 GB of RAM, Windows XP SP2, 160GB hard drive,

[jondo99]

oh wow yeah you need a higher power supply for any graphics card   i take it this is an old computer

[Sloan1979]

Yes it is.  It was the best Wally World had to offer 4 years ago.lol

[Starflyer59]

YOu could go up to a Nvidia 8600GT without having to upgrade the powersupply.

[Sloan1979]

I'm not sure if my comp is PCI or PCI-E( Dell Inspiron 531s )

[Starflyer59 · Accepted solution]

The specs for the 531 says it has 1 - 16x PCI-E