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How can I find out what graphics card upgrade is compatible with my system?
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I'm a bit surprised an Nvidia 9x0 would struggle for web browsing. On a PC this old I would first check other things before swapping the GPU:
As for the GPU, if you are not gaming on big modern titles, anything released in the last ten years should be enough. I had a good experience with AMD over this era for out of the box Linux compatibility, but I can't say much about codecs, I never had issues and never bothered to check.
Intel is probably good enough also.
Another thing to consider is maybe your CPU has a built-in GPU, I use low/mid-range Intel CPU from this era without a discrete GPU as an HTPC and it performs fine.
It doesn't struggle with web browsing per se., just with opening and closing windows mostly. I just experienced it -- I open the file browser, the system hangs for a moment or two where I can't move the mouse. Then the mouse jerks around for a bit. Then the system is smooth again. I looked in System Monitor right after this happened and didn't see any big spikes in storage, CPU, or memory, so I am assuming GPU.
It is probably not physically clean. I should address that first.
It is running on a Samsung SSD 830 series. I tried enabling write cache. I ran into the system stuttering problem (described above) clicking 'cancel' on a random dialog.
I have had a lot of problems with codecs, and video playback being choppy everywhere, which is why I am focused on getting good hardware codecs that are supported under linux.
The CPU/motherboard definitely does have a built-in iGPU. I think I could try it out with
prime-select. Maybe that is worth experimenting.