What Video Card is Compatible with my Desktop PC?

Hey, Everyone, I was thinking of upgrading my Video Card on My Desktop PC, I was just wondering, How I would know what was Compatible with my System? I have:



HP Pavillion s3323w Slimline



Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ 2.50 GHz



Memory: 1gb



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I don't know what's Compatible, or what Works with it, it's got an:



Name: NVIDIA GeForce 430

Chip Type: GeForce 6150SE nForce 430

DAC Type?: Integrated RAMDAC

Memory: 313 MB



I don't want to go too Expensive, but not too cheap, any Advice?

Can this Video Card even be changed? - Thanx in Advance, MicahWhat Video Card is Compatible with my Desktop PC?
Sadly your choice are really limited, first by size, second by power.

Size - You can only use low-profile cards in the miniture case, these are not common for high power cards, have a look at the X1600 model



Power - Your power supply wont be able to pump enough power needed for a high end card, even if it can, the case wont ventilate enough heat to stop it from cooking the inside.What Video Card is Compatible with my Desktop PC?
PCI-E
usually all you need to do is check if the card you are buying it's compatible whit your operating system could be vista or xp etc,etc.

then just choose how much memory you want on the card

i recommend 1GB,another thing you need to check is the power supply so you can know how many watts is the maximum that you have,sometimes you need to change the power supply for one that can give enough power to the system.

usually you need more than 500 watts depending of what card you get

ask at the store or read the box so you can see how many watts do you need to feed the card and the system, or you may burn the motherboard.

once you resolve this issue just open your case insert the card in a pci slot and install the software that came whit it.



now you are asking if the card can be even change, if it is integrated on the motherboard, when you put the new one the one you are using will be disable.

if it's not integrated just remove it from the pci slot and put the new one.