best graphics card for pwi under $50

Edit: You can't overclock Dell. Dell sucks and use dirt cheap custom board+BIOS.
Overclocking isn't even worth it on an ancient single core CPU. You'd need a hefty cooler, you'd need to iron out stability issues, etc - why bother when any modern cpu is faster at 2.4ghz (1 core utilized) than your P4?

Video cards new in the $50 range are not better than the Intel onboard Sandy Bridge CPUs.

In the sub $150 market, I recommend buying used cards made by a lifetime warranty manufacturer - XFX's is transferrable.
If you pay with paypal, it is incredibly easy to get your money back off a bad purchase or even fraudulently scam sellers - hence why us smart people don't like to support scampal/feebay.

For example, http://cgi.ebay.com/XFX-ATI-Radeon-HD-5670-HD-567X-ZNF3-1GB-GDDR5-SDRAM-/120681242378?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item1c19299f0a will probably not sell for much, $50 max

Or it's $80 new: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125360&cm_re=5670-_-14-125-360-_-Product

See also
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/graphics-cards,1.html

Those will help you search for a better performing card if you wish.
For the purpose of Perfect World Entertainment's games, the engine is horrible and will not fully utilize a video card faster than the 5670.

By the way, you should be able to use up to a 5770 with a 350w PSU - but it might be flaky. Nvidia's pretty much a no-go unless buying really low end, they're mostly power suckers that need 400w minimum.

Your computer is so terrible it would just be better to build a new system for $600 based around the i5 2500K and a cheap H67 or H65 motherboard. PWE's games are more demanding of the CPU than the video card - you'd be getting one of the best CPUs and the onboard's a hell of a lot better than what you got now..

ravenrage07 wrote: »

I understand its old as hell but I dont want to buy a Win 7 Machine since i'm not a fan of the way most stuff isnt backwards compatible with 7. I like XP alot more.

Utter nonsense. I haven't problems running anything on Windows 7, including several games from 1999. XP is ****, it's dropped soon, and it misses a lot of features the biggest one being per-program volume control, and some less important things like task bar preview, and far better alt tabbing. XP is a nightmare if you are trying to use a 4kb sector hard drive (all new ones will be like this, as it's far cheaper to manufacture), and XP/Vista are utterly useless for people who are smart enough to use an SSD boot drive.

Very very very few programs will not work in W7. Turn off UAC, run as admin, and where needed use "troubleshoot compatibility" usually gives you a working setting on the troublesome apps.
W7 is every bit as stable as XP, I run my pc 24/7. Of course a cheapskate MS hater like me didn't buy it *cough*

oh and it works with some very ancient hardware I have, too... controller, scanner, pretty much everything!