Upgrading HP a6123w for expansion of World of Warcraft

Hello all-

I currently run a HPa a6123w

http://support.HP.com/us-en/document/c01070884

The upgrade only that I did is to put a pretty weak NVidia 8400gs graphic card in it... I just went to Best Buy and bought one in the range of $ 50 million.

I am a player of World of Warcraft, and recently in anticipation of the new expansion, they have improved their graphics. I see now quite poor performance with the graphics settings turned far enough down. I have to go on settings low to shoot about 30 pictures per second.

Looking around updates of questions on this forum, I see a new power supply and graphics card in my future.

I know I should up my diet through at least 500w or so with a quality brand PSU.

I also know that I have to update my graphics card.  I'm looking to either an ATI 4850, 5670 or 5770.  Or the Nvidia gtx 460.

I'm looking for my best option "bang for buck".  I really only play WoW on my PC, which I know is not a graphics card heavy game of cards.  I also know that I am a bottleneck with my processor speed, and I am running Windows Vista 32-bit Home.

I wonder what's my best option for graphics card for the next WoW expansion and also if it's worth updating my processors and advancing toward a 64-bit Windows 7 as operating system.  Or I'd better save this money for the new system altoghether. I know I'm a little behind on my computer, but one that want a bit better game WoW experience, I have not had problems with this computer.

I wonder also if just the upgrade of a Nvidia 240GT, it will be enough of an upgrade without having to change power supply and other components as I really only play a game on my PC.

Thanks in advance for any help and response (s).

You can put a lot of money on upgrades or just buy a new PC.  Your PC is 3.5 years, so you have to consider the cost to the verses of the age of the PC upgrades and a 3.5 year old motherboard.

$70-100 power supply

$150-200 video card

Upgrade processor $150-250

$100 memory

W7 64-bit $99

If you decide to go the way of upgrade and then go with a power supply 550 watt dual PCI-E power connectors 6 and then buy the NVIDIA GT 460 with 256 memory interface.  You can always move this material to another PC, IE the motherboard on your PC goes wrong.

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