Video Card Help?

[Cloudsword]

Well right now I'm running a Nvidea Geforce Fx5500. Yea its pretty old. Anyways im wanting to play a few games such as Left 4 dead on my pc and ect some newer games even Left 4 dead 2 if i get a decent video card.

Atm I only have 1.2G of ram, Which I will be upgrading that soon.

Right now my system specs are:

Operating System:
Windows XP (32 bit)

Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 256 MB


Memory:
RAM: 1278 Mb

I believe my processor idk never knew much about one, it sais Pentium 4 CPU Intel 2.80 Ghz.

Anyways Im looking for a vid card like i said, I would be purchasing it on new egg but not right now will be later on, Just wandering what would be a decent video card I could purchase, Not serial but IDE.

Im looking into Nvidia Gforce 7000 or So, I Believe my budget would be around $40-50 would anybody be interested in showing what would be a good video card for my budget?

I know I will be upgrading my ram soon, But as for processor Idk anything about. so any help on that would be great.


Also was looking how do I find out if I have DDR2 or whatnot? Can I change from DDR2 to 3? Im not familiar with this.

 

[xeleration]

You most likely are using DDR RAM, not DDR2. To change it, you would have to buy new sticks of RAM and buy a new compatible motherboard. Only upgrading your GPU isn't going to help you much if you don't upgrade the rest of your parts, which are to say in the least, outdated.