I'm looking to install a new graphics card on my acer aspire X1920 (GMA Graphics are ****) I'm not lookin for the best graphics card ever, just a low profile one that can run some games, minecraft, WOW, LOL, Skyrim on low? I need some help!
if you could help that would be great!
350 watt is the minimum for gaming video cards.
I too, was stuck with an underpowered GATEWAY. The TECHs told me that I needed a 400 watt power supply for the graphics card I needed. GATEWAY said no way could I upgrade the unit I have.
Look for the specs on any new machine, the industry is building them on the cheap now a days. They will not even list the available slots on the "brand name" machines. Mainly I suspect because they do not have any.
I miss the olden days. Of Packard-Bell, IBM, and etc.
On my work PC I have low profile Radeon 6570. It only has a 240 watt PSU, and I haven't had any issues with it. A 220 watt PSU could probably get by with a Radeon 6450/7450, but neither of those are very fast. Video card manufactures almost always grossly overstate power requirements. You need to look at the card's TDP and use that as idea of how much power you're going to need. A good rule of thumb is that your PSU should have a rating of at least four times that of the of the TDP of the video card in most situations. The 6450 has a TDP of 27 watts so you should be fine with a 220 watt PSU.
In my experience, there's only ONE graphics card that you can get with that power supply: HD 5450.
its max power consumption is only 19 watts and can run games on low or medium settings (720p res)
I can't stand when people want to use the worst of the worst and expect to play games. 220 watts? You could get a 600 which is almost triple that for $50. Jesus, if you wanna be that ungodly cheap just stick to console.
You're never gonna get a graphics card that can run all those games on 220w. Minimum 450w.
220 watts… That is very low i would be more focused on getting a new power supply rather than graphics cards.