Cheap graphics card?

[noble cookie]

Okay, basically I just want to get into PC gaming, I bought the Garry's mod/Team Fortress 2 bundle off of Steam, and because I have an Intel I can't run source games, apparentley. I just want some advice on what to do to be able to run most games, not really the likes of Crysis and Farcry but just games the quality of Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2 etc.

Anyway, i've been looking around for a decent card to replace my intel, and it needs to be relatively cheap, (I'm like 14 with no money) so I will present this to you and ask, is this good enough?

Spoiler: Sorry, i'm shit with links!

http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/13639695/Sapphire-ATI-Radeon-HD-5450-1GB-PCI-Express-2-1-Graphics-Card/Product.html?searchtype=PCSH&searchsource=0&searchstring=radeon&urlrefer=search&strefer=PCSH&searchfilters=s%7bradeon%7d%2bc%7b420%7d%2b

Let me know if I need to update anything else, thanks!

Spoiler: The specs of my PC, well what i can find anyway

Windows XP
Intel Pentium D CPU 2.80GHz
2.98 GB of RAM
DirectX 9.0

Also, if it helps, my birthday is not that far away, July 29th.

 

[noble cookie]

Shameless bump, i dont know where else to ask D':

 

[devotedsniper]

Something like this should be ok, it's a NVIDIA 9500GT (i had a 1GB version and it was very good, could run crysis rather well too, so half life and such will be no problem):

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/155597

All you have to do is make sure you have a spare PCI-E slot.

 

[noble cookie]

Something like this should be ok, it's a NVIDIA 9500GT (i had a 1GB version and it was very good, could run crysis rather well too, so half life and such will be no problem):

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/155597

All you have to do is make sure you have a spare PCI-E slot.

I know nothing about installing new hardware, so I don't really know what a PCI-E slot is, so I'll have to learn about that, but thanks for the suggestions!

 

[devotedsniper]

Something like this should be ok, it's a NVIDIA 9500GT (i had a 1GB version and it was very good, could run crysis rather well too, so half life and such will be no problem):

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/155597

All you have to do is make sure you have a spare PCI-E slot.

I know nothing about installing new hardware, so I don't really know what a PCI-E slot is, so I'll have to learn about that, but thanks for the suggestions!

If you scroll down on the link below you'll find some yellow ones the on you need is the longest one it shows

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express

 

[Aurgelmir]

Something like this should be ok, it's a NVIDIA 9500GT (i had a 1GB version and it was very good, could run crysis rather well too, so half life and such will be no problem):

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/155597

All you have to do is make sure you have a spare PCI-E slot.

I know nothing about installing new hardware, so I don't really know what a PCI-E slot is, so I'll have to learn about that, but thanks for the suggestions!

As for learning about hardware, I bet Youtube has millions of videos on that

also make sure the rest of your computer can handle your games though, might be you need more than just a video card