1 problem after another... [Question]

You are welcome for wasting my time.

Check your games and seek for Antialiasing, and change it to none. That should help for frame rate. Also that's probably too much ram than what you would actually use and need. The card itself does not seem so bad it has 512MB Dedicated Ram, if any doubt in which games you can run you can use System Requirements Lab

A few things....

Do you have a 64bit OS? If not the 10 gigs of ram will do you no good.

Yes the video card you have is low, a new one would do wonders. But I'm guessing you might need a new power supply too to hand a newer card.

The CPU you have is also not the greatest, but better then what I had.

Generally you need a major upgrade. Motherboard, CPU, Ram, videocard, powersupply. Basically everything.

Reason why I say everything is because, going by what you say, you have an AM2 based CPU and motherboard. They don't make AM2s anymore. AM2s ran with DDR2 ram, the AM3, AM3+ and newer intel motherboards and CPUs out there require DDR3 ram. Sticking with your nvidia videocard you have will be a major bottleneck and you will see no real increase in playable games. So you would need a new videocard. Newer videocards along with all the other stuff requires more power, which means newer power supply.

I'm even gonna hazard a guess that you will need a new bigger case cause you have one of those really small cases.

So ya you're lookin at around 400 to 500 dollars for a decent upgrade that would do you for at least a couple of years and at least allow you to do some future upgrading.

Also if you don't have a 64bit OS you would need that too as long as you got over 4 gigs of ram, which I would suggest you do. At least a pair of 4 gig sticks or even a pair of 8 gig sticks if you can afford it.