New graphics card help

[Dark9204]

Hi

I have an Amd Athlon X2 64 2.6 GHz with 2gb of ram, and i want to buy a new graphics card. My current one is an Asus EN8500GT (Nvidia 8500GT) (459MHz GPU, 666MHz RAM). And when even Halo CE lags at some points, you can imagine that i get very disappointed.

My OS BTW are Windows Vista 64 bit. So not running Linux anymore. I just thougt this were a good place to ask.

My main questions are: What graphics card should i buy with my performace? Take into consideration that my PSU are at 350W.
Second, How important are the RAM speed? How much should i focus at the GPU?

Thanks.

[handy]

The 9* series of nVidia graphic cards apparently use considerably less electrical power than the 8*, the following links may be of assistance:

http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/computer-power-consumption.html

http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3413

P.S.
You probably should have posted this in the Other OS Talk / Windows Discussions sub-forum. :-)

[Dark9204]

That second site will really come in handy.

Thanks!

[smoker]

Hi
My main questions are: What graphics card should i buy with my performace? Take into consideration that my PSU are at 350W.
Second, How important are the RAM speed? How much should i focus at the GPU?

Thanks.

couldn't comment definitively about ram and gpu, though i do know a poor power supply can adversely affect a system, here is a link for a power supply calculator if you want to check:
http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp

[Izek]

That second site will really come in handy.

Thanks!

I concur

[JoycePorter]

When buying a high end card such as Nvidia series 9 cards it is important to have a good power supply at least with a rating of 500watts. You can try an NVIDIA 9500 series since it doest require external power for it to run unlike its other brothers. But still a good power supply is always is needed.