NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

As near as I can tell, your motherboard is basic PCI-E (known now as version 1 ). Most video cards are version 2 or 3 - and some of those may not be compatible with your motherboard. You only have a 300 watt power supply and you need to keep the power requirement for the replacement at about the same level (45 watts).

Lists with TDP in a far right column for recent cards are on wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units
 
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