Looking for a new Video card for the pc?

I want to get a better video card for this computer. Its an hp pavilion p6310f, and has a 256 MB video card. I play World Of Warcraft alot and have been having horrible frame rate issues, so Im betting that I don't have enough MB's to support everything on the computer plus WOW efficiently. My question is what kind of card would any of you recommend and will my power supply be able to handle it? I prefer to stay with Nvidia GeForce...|||Ok, I'll start off by saying that your bet is a losing bet. First of all, you don't have a video card you have the nVidia GeForce 9100 on-board video chipset with 256MB of RAM allocated from your UDMA (main system memory bank). Secondly, World of Warcraft requires a minimum of 32MB of video ram with a recommended amount of 128MB. You're already at double that so the RAM is not an issue. The issue is that on-board video is not really designed for gaming. It can game but as you know, frame rates will suck. I'll give you some choices here because you haven't specified a budget. Also, keep in mind that it makes no difference whatsoever whether you get nVidia or ATi so just get the one that gives you the best performance and features for the money. The rest is pure semantics and worthless.



I'll start by using the Passmark score and ranking of what you have:



nVidia GeForce 9100

Passmark Score: 101

Passmark Rank: 583rd in the world



This is what I recommend you get:



ATi Radeon HD 4550 512MB: $45 (-$15 mail-in-rebate=$30)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…

Passmark Score: 357

Passmark Rank: 216th in the world



This has 3.5x the power of your 9100 and would deliver perfectly good framerates in WoW. On the other hand, if you're bound and determined to spend extra money just to get a vidcard that's green..



nVidia GeForce GT 220: $60 (-$20 mail-in-rebate)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…

Passmark Score: 460

Passmark Rank: 168th in the world



It's a price increase of 33% for a performance increase of 28%. That's actually a good price/performance ratio, almost matching that of the Radeon HD 4550. Either card will work perfectly so it's up to you. Just pop em in and away you go! Hope this helps you out! :-)