video card

[jlyon]

my mom and her boyfriend have an HP Pavillion a6414f. it is a dual core 3.0g, 3 gb ram and on-board video. COD Black Ops plays slow, so i told him he needed to upgrade the video. what would be a good card to use? i told him about this card

http://www.frys.com/product/6448842?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

is there maybe something in that price range that may be better for this app?

[Unicorn Jeff]

Eh... It's ok but he'll have to play on LOW settings but will probably get by.

[ozzeran]

That model has a 300watt power supply so you are VERY limited.

Most cards that will run Black ops "Decently" require 400+, mostly 450watt and higher honestly.

[fordracing19]

That card sucks. Also newegg has the corsair 430w psu for $39.99 today with $25 rebate

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[jlyon]

this computer is factory original. he hasn't done anything to it. i have no idea what PSU it has on it. right now, it is choppy as hell. i tried to set the settings up but nothing worked. was thinking about going into the bios settings and seeing if i can change the memory usage of the OBV.

[Tx Redneck]

Pm me your number. I'll have a decent card he can have here in a week or so, he'll just need to get a power supply for it.

[Jeff]

oem psu's usually run better than aftermarket stuff at the same ratings. you could probably rock an nvidia 9600 or 8800gt on that psu and be ok

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500149&cm_re=9600-_-14-500-149-_-Product

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130578&cm_re=9800-_-14-130-578-_-Product

[Mychael101]

I just picked up a video card today at frys. Its an Evga GeForce GT 240 1GB DDR5. It was $99.99 and has a $40 mail in rebate. Its a really quiet card and its fine with a 300w power supply.

update-

When everything works it rocks. However, there have been a lot of random blue screens that come on and then the computer restarts so I can't see what the error is to try to correct it.