Is this graphics card compatible?

Benjolia

Benjolia

Benjolia

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My current graphics card has had 5 years of solid use and has developed a gradually worsening overheating problem; any semi-demanding game doesn't last a minute now. It's been recommended to me that I should upgrade it; a welcome recommendation in my eyes as I'd love to be able to play Portal 2 again!

I have been pointed to a graphics card, but unfortunately I am ignorant when it comes to this kind of stuff. Don't get me wrong, I can put a computer together if somebody gives me the necessary parts, but knowing which parts to pick is not my forte!

My current setup is as follows (copied directly from the invoice, so please excuse any irrelevant info):
- Trust PW-5500 570W ATX Power Supply (PCI-E & SATA)
- Asus Skt AM3 M4A88TD Full ATX Motherboard DDR3
- AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 645 Processor 3.10 GHz
- 4GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM
- 300GB Harddrive
- 64-bit Operating System (Windows 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1)
- NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX/9800 GTX+ 512MB DDR3 (<- here's the trouble causer! I've loved it for 5 years, but it's time to move on!)

The graphics card that I have been pointed to can be found here:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-175-OK

Now it's not that I don't trust the recommendation, I just want another set of eyes to look over this as I don't know what I'm looking at. If I bought this, would it be as simple as whipping out my old graphics card and plugging this one in? Would I potentially face any issues? Anything in particular to look out for? Would it even work at all? Can you tell I'm a worrier?

Thank you in advance for any advice. If any further information is required, please do let me know!
 
Thank you for your input OptimaLnrg.

The temperature has been monitored and I am assured it is an overheating issue. The whole system shuts down after a game has been played for about a minute.

The drivers are indeed up to date, the card has been blasted a few times with compressed air along with the rest of the system. The cooler is not blocked, that I assume as nothing has changed in there since the days when it was working fine. The fans are not broken.
The last point however, I have not cleaned up and reapplied the TIM. That's something I have experience with on a CPU, but I didn't think to do it to the GPU. I'm definitely going to give that a go before buying anything else, of course I want to explore any options like this before forking out any cash!

In regards to upgrading, thank you for your input again, I will wait for further opinion on this. It's shifted towards the back of my mind now that I know there is a cheaper option to try first!
 
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