Well without more system info it's hard to say dude. If you bought the computer at a place like best buy or futureshop etc and haven't opened it, than it has an integrated card, and pretty much any video card from 150-250 dollars will be good, 300bucks amazin. That's a general rule I'd suppose instead of going into details about graphic cards, anything is better than integrated (unless the computer is spanking new and you got an ancient graphic card :P)

If you give us more information like;

cpu and clock speed and fsb;

Ram;

Operating System;

Current Video Card;

Power Supply ; Wattage:

I do suggest to be wary as well, don't go onto ebay and buy video cards, even if they do work, if they're old they may have problems and can be affected by shipping an be damaged, or also because of age, be affected by electromigration. (This is when a gpu or cpu is very hot and current is travelling in very confined spaces that any increase of temperature or current or both , even with normal operation over time, moves electrons eventually causing the pathways to fail and short = dead) New is probably the best to get, preferance is usually local pickups however.

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Hi. Yes, this information is critical. First to determine what lind of expansion slots you hand and second, the size of your power supply which, as one post sais, was critical. The age of the computer is important, although there have been some new HP's that do not have any expansion for a decent video card as they they have neither an agp ( older accelerated graphics card) or PCIe ( the newest accelerated graphics card). Again, the more information you can give us about the computer, the better. coastie65

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