- Jul 26, 2007
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We are wanting to throw a cheap video card into my buddy's computer to free up resources. He is NOT a gamer, but may eventually hook the PC up to his LCD TV. We want to keep the cards price under 40 bucks, and as I said he does NOT play games. Both the nvidia 8500 GT and ATI HD 4350 are under 40 bucks, and both have 512 MB of video memory. I am just curious for the price, which card is better in terms of performance and affeciency as I'm not sure if one requires a smaller power supply vs. the other. He currently has the stock power supply that came with his desktop as it is an Emachines W5243 and I believe it is rated at 200W. We have already ordered him another gig of RAM to upgrade him from the stock 1 GIG to 2 GIGS so i figured a cheap video card would be the other thing we could do to speed him up a bit. Thank you in advance for the Response.