any suggestions for good low cost nvidia card?

any one have any suggestions on a good nvidia gfx card I can add to my system strictly for dual monitoring purposes? I already have a GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 but it only has 1 vga out and I read on many sources that in order to achieve extended desktop display you need a second vga out for the second monitor thus needing a additional gfx card. I might be limited due to my motherboard aswell.

any help or suggestions would be highly appreciated !

here are my specs : HP Pavilion p6500 Desktop PC series - HP Pavilion p6557c Desktop PC Product Specifications - c02185984 - HP Business Support Center

and I most def might have to upgrade my power supply I suppose

The cheapest Nvidia card for dual monitor (and definitely not for gaming) would be this,

Newegg.com - MSI N210-MD512D3H/LP GeForce 210 512MB 64-bit DDR3 HDCP Ready Low Profile Video Card

Or if light gaming might be a consideration something like this,

Newegg.com - ASUS EAH5450 SILENT/DI/512MD2(LP) Radeon HD 5450 512MB 64-bit DDR2 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready Low Profile Ready Video Card

would be a better option.

The 250W power supply in that HP is a concern, but both of those cards should be OK on it as they both have very low power usage.

@ joshatdot : I got about 50-65 dollars for a gfx card and 60-80 for a psu or vice versa. I also need to get an extra internal hard drive for audio purposes. Do you know if a sata II or later drive would work with my motherboard? My current drive is just sata so I don't know if that's a issue when buying a new drive. I'm making an account
@ newegg; I see it refreneced alot and it seems like a great site so I'm just going to buy my upgrades from there

@ stormy13 : that first one looks great ! would it being ddr3 conflict with my system as it uses ddr2 ram?

would it being ddr3 conflict with my system as it uses ddr2 ram?

Not in the slightest. The memory on a video card is used by the video card only, and not used or added to the system memory.

smys said:

@ joshatdot : I also need to get an extra internal hard drive for audio purposes. Do you know if a sata II or later drive would work with my motherboard? My current drive is just sata so I don't know if that's a issue when buying a new drive. I'm making an account

The SATA controller on your nVidia 6150SE based board is 3 Gb/s, sometimes called SATA II. According to HP, the 500MB disk that shipped with your model was SATA II.

Your only concern would be if you bought a 6 Gb/s (SATA III) drive. I think those are supposed to be backwards compatible, though.

@bobkn : yeah I think I could get away with a 3 GB/s 64 mb cache less than 10.0ms seek/latency drive that would no doubt work .. but ideally a 6 GB/s 64 mb -10ms seek drive. but even if I were to install a SATA III interface drive and have it work, wouldn't it be limited since my board is SATA II? Would it probably be better to just go with the 3 GB/s 64mb sata II? also, do most drives built now-a-days only run off NTFS formatting? or are there still ones still formatted with FAT32? because NTFS is what I require. I notice most ads don't specify that

@stormy13 : a question that has plagued me for quite some time !! hense dedicated graphics. eureka ! now.. I have a little extra money for the graphics card and even though It's going to be used strictly for dual monitoring, I'm still going to be running a few audio programs that require nvidia graphics and could be somewhat taxing but not nearly as much as a PC game. With that being said would that first card still be prime canidate? this system for shure is not going to have any gaming on it, but just a few audio programs. If I could still get away with that first one that would be ideal but I don't mind going up a bit if it's nessesary for what I'm trying to achieve.

@everyone: infinite thanks for your suggestions / knowledge !! it's highly highly appreciated ! you guys own it up in in here !