Buying a new video card

I plan to replace my old ATI Radeon xpress 200 video card, my desktop runs on Pent.4CPU 3.00 GHz (HP a1519h desktop). The new video card I plan to buy is Radeon HD 4850, not sure if motherboard will support the new card. Any input will help out a greatly. Thanks

 

Hi Elias,
From what I can gather from your post is that you want to upgrade from the on-board video, After finding the specs for your HP Media centre A1519H it seems you should be able to use the HD4850 (below are the system requirements from AMD)

ATI Radeon™ HD 4850 System Requirements
PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
450 Watt or greater power supply with 75 Watt 6-pin PCI Express® power connector recommended (550 Watt and two 6-pin connectors for ATI CrossFireX™ technology in dual mode)
Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSU for a list of Certified products
Minimum 1GB of system memory
Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
DVD playback requires DVD drive
Blu-ray™ playback requires Blu-ray drive
For a complete ATI CrossFireX™ system, a second ATI Radeon™ HD 4850 graphics card, an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per graphics card (included) are required

Your motherboard has a pcie16 slot on it
Regards Jac

 

Your limiting factor is going to be the Power Supply.
Things to look for is watts, max +12 volt amp output and do you have a PCIe power connecter.
Sometime it’s hard to find the info online but it’s all there on the side of the power supply.

Yours probably won’t do it and think you’re gonna be pretty limited. You’ll have to upgrade the supply or get a different card.
For future reference TigerDirect is pretty good at giving minimum system requirements for any card they sell.

 

Many thanks for the help. Couldn't find the spec for my pwr supply online,even from the Hp website. I had to open desktop cover and actual look into the pwr supply labe and get the data for myself. Can not upgrade to the video card I would like to buy. Main pwr supply does not meet watt's(300 watts MAX output) requirement for new card. Once again many thanks for the help