Do I even have a GPU?

Do I even have a GPU?
Also, what's a good one I can get for under $150

You have an Intel integrated card, which is basically like not having one, yeah.

What do you aim to play?

Also that CPU is ancient as well

750 Ti

I'm definitely lot trying to play Skyrim Special Edition on max settings, but I'd at least like to be able to run a 3D game at 60 FPS without needing the lowest settings

What games? Be pretty specific since there is a leap in requirements from say Oblivion to Skyrim

portal games, skyrim regular edition, new vegas, dark souls, dead rising 2, etc

that's an APU, integrated into the CPU. it's shit
>run a 3D game
are you 14? name some examples you fucking idiot

>portal games
nope
>skyrim regular edition
nope
>new vegas
maybe, probably nope
>dark souls
nope
>dead rising 2
nope

save up a few hundred bucks and get a low-end gaming PC. you'll be able to play most games but you'll miss out on newer AAA garbage. dont cheap out on power supply and get a big case so that you can upgrade your PC for years to come

you should beg an user to send you a core2quad.

>skyrim
For what purpose?

Here's the thing, the rest of your rig is so ancient that I legitimately think that there will be compatibility problems with modern entry level GPUs. If you want only GPU recommendations then RX460 and GTX 1050 are good entry level GPUs but I really recommend you either build an entry level PC for $400-500 or just buy a second hand Xbox 360/PS3 if you just want to play those games.

S-Sorry senpai

Where the hell did you even get that PC? Its so old

64MB of dedicated video memory isn't even enough to run Dwarf Fortress or Minecraft, let alone Dark Souls.

probably dug it out of his parents basement

I know, thats why thats the part I'm replacing

mostly right, my friend made it out of spare parts and sold it to me for $10

Can an RX550 play new games at 1080 on low?

you're gonna need to replace the GPU and the CPU, user. unless if bottlenecking yourself is your fetish

is the RAM ok or should I upgrade to 8

>>portal games
>nope
Source engine games are ridiculously optimized. Back in 2008-09 I was playing Portal and Half-Life 2 on a shitty old laptop that was way behind what OP is working with. Had to turn all the graphics options all the way down and play at 480p but it worked and I got consistently over 30fps

He'll probably need a new mobo too.

8 is even too little these days... you really can't use this PC for anything. I don't think they even make LGA775 CPUs anymore.. ;_;

upgrade to 8. make sure your mobo can support that much first.
actually, check if your mobo can support anything modern.
portal's minimum GPU requirement is a GeForce 7600 with 256MB of VRAM. That's four times as much as OP's, and the card itself will probably shit itself trying to run anything more demanding than MS Paint.

honestly OP would be better off just building a new computer for the sole purpose of gaming. $10 is good for an office clunker, but not a gaming rig

how do i check the specs of the motherboard

>portal's minimum GPU requirement is a GeForce 7600 with 256MB of VRAM
Yeah no, unless the game was updated in such a way that it ruined its performance but I doubt it. "Minimum" is rarely the true minimum. I played it with '08-09 shitty intel integrated graphics.

Does DF even use the GPU?

Don't.

Just take the advice of the hand full of people telling you to start over and get a totally new computer. The stuff you've got is so out of date it's actually mildly impressive you can even browse the internet. Trying to upgrade parts is just going to be a huge compatibility headache that really won't help you until you've replaced like 80% of the computer and even then you're going to be held back by motherboard limitations.

People can tell what mobo it is based on your processor. It is pushing a decade old. You can't really do anything with this computer, dude. I'm sorry.

If you played stuff from strictly 2005 and before, this has potential to be a pretty badass gaming computer. You could also look into older emulators (newer/more accurate ones won't run as well) and use it to play thousands of retro games

find out what model it is and google it. usually store pages have an in-depth spec sheet
I looked up the GMA 4500 and it was used by intel around 2008-2009 and had no dedicated video memory, instead drawing from the system and subsequently being slow as shit.
VRAM shouldn't be as much as a problem since it has up to 1.7GB of dynamic memory, it also supports up to DX10.

OP should be able to run 3D games, but they will have absolute shit framerates.

>newer emulators won't run as well
what?
>use it to play thousands of retro games
because I want to play Pokemon Red with tile corruption, no sound and a 10 second input delay

>what?
Older emulators, made for older computers, used a lot of shortcuts to get them to run full speed on the slower hardware. Newer ones are much more accurate but use more system resources, and therefore will not work as well on older hardware. For example, if OP wanted to play SNES games, he should use something like ZSNES instead of higan.
>because I want to play Pokemon Red with tile corruption, no sound and a 10 second input delay
Not sure what you're getting at with this

somehow, I can run New Vegas at the lowest graphics settings, so are you all exaggerating about the specs or is it really that bad enough to need to start over entirely

the average Sup Forumsirgin will claim to refuse to play any game at sub-4k resolution or sub-120fps with supersampling and all the highest possible settings. anything else is "impossible" or "shit"

Sup Forums thinks that VRAM and clockspeed is all that matters. The chipset is fine, the motherboard is fine, everything is fine. You aren't going to be running 4K VR ultra high def anything, but you will be able to play some older games.

so a GPU really is all i need to run games decently at the lowest settings

OP, here's a handy guide you should follow:
Step 1: install speccy, run and take a screenshot for us
Step 2: get laughed at
Step 3: use logicalincrements to make something that won't die when coughed at wrong, google it.
Step 4: put your rig in a museum, it's where it belongs.

>i can run this 7 year old game at the lowest possible settings yall are exaggerating
M8

Have you been reading the replies? GPU, CPU, memory, motherboard, and power supply all matter.

Goddamn are you 8?

he's desperately trying to list off games that Sup Forums likes so that we don't laugh at him
most of the games he listed are good

DF needs a GPU that reasonably supports OpenGL and VBOs (if enabled), so anything made since the early 2000s.

if you can't tell, I'm cheap, and it just so happens that those are the only games that I own or are steam shared to me that this PC can't run

DF needs one hell of a good CPU though.

1050 ti

>E5800
>Fucking LGA775 board
Dude, the best you're going to get on that is a Q6600 or a modded Xeon processor, and those are decade old solutions. The GPU is the least of your problems.

well to be fair he'd be able to play the games he mentioned just fine with a decent core 2 duo.

G41 has 29% weaker graphics performance than a Geforce 6600. You're pretty much fucked on playing games post 2006 though it might be able to play Oblivion on low to medium settings