What is a good graphics card, but at affordable prices that can run Empire total war?

I have a Dell XPS 400 PC and I'm the kind ETW power play, but I keep getting scrambled text. My friends tell me that my video card is old. I'm looking for an upgrade to a good, but I do not I spend a ton of money. Any suggestions would be great. And every time I play multiplayer games I drop because of information that is also desynced because of my graphics card? This is my system specs Dell XPS DXP051 Intel (R) Pentium (R) 4 CPU 3.20 GHz 3.19 GHz, 1.00 GB of RAM

Hi Below I I made two suggestions to help change the problems that are occurring with the Empire: Total War 1. The amount of RAM you have installed (1 GB) is the absolute minimum for the game contemporary – you must upgrade to 2 or 3 GB for the gameplay smoother. Stick 1 GB of RAM should cost you only a small amount of money (can not give you the exact price because my currency is probably different to yours). 2. If you are looking for a cheap but quality graphics card, then the following list will help you! – NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT – NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT – ATI Radeon HD 3850 – ATI Radeon HD 3400 If you are looking for the best of the best (expensive) graphics accelerators, here they are: – NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 – NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 – ATI Radeon HD 4870 Note: It is advisable to have 256MB of memory on a graphics card (not listen to Michael). You must have 512 MB or 1 GB card .. In addition, RAM and accelerator card are different, so do not be confused with it.