Upgrading my video card

Good then I want to update my video card in my current one... don't know exactly how I would have this approach. I don't want to just go and ask retailers initially that they could sell me something that is overpriced and not that great. Don't know what type of video card I want, but I will provide a few details end my computer and we can go from there.
I have an AMD athlon II 2 250 processor processor - 2 X ~ 3.0 GHz
Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430
Integrated RAMDAC
Memory total approx. - 1912 GB
Realtek HD audio
Here is my card to my motherboard/Bios card:
-CHIPSET AMD 1200 rev 0
Card mother name: HP-Pavilion
Motherboard model: AY014AA-ABL a4310f
BIOS size: 1048576
Name: Hewlett-Packard
RAM - 4, 00 GB
power supply 250W

Don't know what else I would need to provide before I can even go ahead and think about buying a video card. Oh, I'm willing to spend more than $ 150 too if I need too. 200 would be to much but if I mean play Crysis (which is an old game now lol) and the only way I can is with a $ 200 card so that I don't really have a choice, I guess. I was trying to play the Chronicles of riddick and I saw my system not handling not really the game that well and it's an old game now that made me think I would def need a new video card.

If you want more plug on my office heres the link

http://support.HP.com/us-en/document/c01949097

If you're a gamer?  Crysis is a cpu eater. However, a better video would be really useful, but to support a better video card will require a replacement of power supply.  Max 600 watts should be plenty.

Review the specifications of performance ATI and NVIDIA . Look at the specifications of strip memory bandwidth and level of DirectX support.

How to replace a power supply.

How to replace a video card.

www.Newegg.com has a lot of power and video card blocks.  Choose a modular power supply with a performance rating of 80 + or higher. Try to find one that has the same physical dimensions as your current diet. Then do a measure to the inside of your PC around 16 x PCI-E slotso that you know what size card have to be considered.

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