Advent graphics card upgrade--please help

hi, my son has a advent dt2304 desktop

he is having problems playing games on it running slow --lagging

I have been told to upgrade the graphics card as the processor is perfectly adequate,

it says on reviews this is fitted with

Graphics card model number

Intel ® HD GPU

can anyone help and advise me what graphics card will be better for playing games and also cost please

In short any, because it looks like it is running the on-board graphics chip.

What card you choose depends on a couple of things:

How much power your power supply unit can give

What space there is inside the computer and on the motherboard

What version of PCI-E you are running

What version of windows you are running

How much you wanna spend

The most important ones are probably power and cost, you should have the space for it and you're probs running windows 7 or higher.

hi

geared , he is running windows 7

You'll proably need to pop the case open and check what the power supply is rated for, also double check the PCI-E slot is free and there's a power connector for it.

I do know in days gone by some bought PC's would have expansion slots glue'd over to stop people upgrading and force em into buying new stuff.

Not so common now tho.

thanks geared any idea of which one to buy up to 100.00

please

---------- Post added 29-01-2014 at 18:20 ----------

computer is only 8 months old

You need to look at your power supply,no use buying a powerful graphics card only to find your power supply isn't powerful enough to run it.

power supply is 250w

I am looking at this

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Graphics-Express-4600MHz-Eyefinity-Technology/dp/B007R1SQ1K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1390909555&sr=8-1&keywords=asus+radeon+hd+7750

will this work ?

power supply is 250w

I am looking at this

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Graphics-Express-4600MHz-Eyefinity-Technology/dp/B007R1SQ1K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1390909555&sr=8-1&keywords=asus+radeon+hd+7750

 

will this work ?

No, the website recommends a minumum of 400W for that card.

I have an old geforce 6600 pci-e card that you can have if you want. not sure how much that will help performance though as it is quite old.

You could buy that card and a new power supply for around £100

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-3.html

Toms hardware says 7790 or 7770

As already said the psu is a problem as 250w is very low. Thye made the machine to a price with no leeway becayse they knew there was no independent card. You need to check the mb to make sure it has a pci e slot to take one. You will then have to consider if you can uphrade the psu b ecause i dont think 250 is enough. You may have problems fitting a full size psu dependent on the case.

ATI tend to use a lot less power.

I have a good quality psu(500w) here- http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1271799