I have recently acquired a PB iMedia 1418, and it's a good pc but workin on upgrading it. I bought a GFX card and asked the guy in PC World would it work, and he said it would but it doesn't fit. Can anyone tell me what GFX card would work in it? It has onboard gfx already, no specific card. Also its quite loud, could it be the fan in the psu? or just the fan itself? would it be easy to replace? Thanks!!

I had a look at the system & motherboard specs. You have no AGP or PCI-e x16 slot...all you have to work with is standard PCI. You're not gonna turn this machine into a decent gamer no matter what you do, but you can certainly do better than the crappy Intel graphics. Your best choices are FX5200, FX5500, Geforce 6200 or HD2400Pro, in that order.

as for the noise check the fans to see if any wires are touching the fans or stop the fans one by one to see if the bearings went bad

I assume you mean that FX5200 is the best out of the list of GFX cards? If so, will buy one! Only has one on-board fan, and then obv whatever is in the psu, runs very quietly when started up, and then just gets louder the more programs i run.

Is the one fan on board on the heat sink for your processor? I ran into a similar problem recently with an older compaq. It ran quiet until the user started running spreadsheets in Office 2k3. I took the heat sink, fan and processor out and blew the dust out of the heat sink. I also noticed that the thermal grease was old, so I cleaned that off with an alcohol wipe from the processor and heat sink, then applied a small dab of new thermal grease. Reassembled and the noise and excessive heat were gone. You may have a similar issue. RBest

"I assume you mean that FX5200 is the best out of the list of GFX cards?" Sorry, I guess I should have explained the order but I thought you would realise by the numerical progression. The FX5200 is the worst on the list...the HD2400Pro is the best. And frankly, the FX5200 isn't very good. Any one of those cards is better than onboard graphics though. Also, 128-bit memory is better than 64-bit memory.

Aha I understand now, yeah I thought the numerical progression but then most people put best first, worst last, so I just wanted to clarify! I have seen some cards with 256-bit memory, can my computer hold them? Yes the fan on board is the heatsink for my processor afaik! I'll take it apart and blow it out, see if that solves it!