Please help me pick a video card

[LicoriceTattoo]

Hello!

I have an Inspiron 531 and recently my video card went bad so I need a new one. In the meantime I've switched to onboard. I'm a software guy and am a big dummy on hardware so can you please help me? I just need a cheap one that will get me by.

1. I don't do gaming
2. My budget is as cheap as I can get. Under 30-40 would be nice.
3. My power supply says "Bestec" on it and says +12V/18A, -12V/.8A
4. Specs from "CPU-Z"
a.CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+
b.Mainboard: Dell Inc 0RY206, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP61
c. Memory: DDR2, 3072 MBytes

Here are the specs that came with my computer when I bought it (HOWEVER, I had to replace the NVIDIA with another video card cuz that caused problems, but I made a stupid decision and threw away the card I replaced it with when it went bad)

Dell Inspiron 531 AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 6000+
Memory 3GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz - 4 DIMMs
Video Cards 128MB Radeon ATI HD 2400 PRO
Hard Drive 500GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™

Please let me know what my cheapest bet would be so I can get off the onboard! Thanks!!!!!!

Thanks,
Steve

 

[Tmagic650]

Does the motherboard have a PCI or PCIe or AGP video slot? After researching, you have a PCIe x16 slot:
This would be a good choice:
PCIeX16 Video Card