well the seller has offered to upgrade my video card to radeon HD 5450 1GB is that a good option or should I ask him for something different?

/sigh, everything is so confusing just getting into the hobby

For sure, I'm just a little new to the whole PC business, if premade from big brands were cheaper that would sure as heck lighten my day a top of the line comp doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg but it sure does in real life.

Thanks for the help on the Graphics card, I just don't know where to begin on getting this machine up to scratch

Yeah It's DDR2 exclusive I have no clue how to install a motherboard, thanks for all your help guys and girls I'm just in a bind since I picked up the machine off ebay and pretty sure the seller lied to me about running SWTOR on high with this machine

Not sure how to find out my motherboard Windows 8 operating system so I need more RAM is what you're saying? how much would that help?

Not sure where to post this so I'll post it here Here are my specs and I'm looking for a compatible upgrade to my graphics card Specs: HP DC7700 Full height Desktop Tower Intel Pentium D Dual Core 3.4 GHz processor 4GB memory (4x1GB sticks) 1 SATA 250 GB hard drive 1 GB Nvidia 8400. Uses system memory to push video memory up to 2.7Gig 365W Power supply HDMI, DVI and VGA connections (Dual screen possible) onboard sound 1GB eithernet Seller said it could run Swtor on high settings but it hasn't been, so if possible I'd like some help finding a compatible graphics card that will run swtor smoothly but at a decent price range