Drivers operating in erratic way

[dazp1976]

Desk top Daz. Del optiplex 380 upgraded to win 8.1. The Dell help page doesn't help much.
Looks to have three empty card slots at the base of the motherboard.
Will one of those accomodate a graphics card,?, Which one ? , and what is a decent card to get ?
Will it be plug and play or will it need configured

I'm not familiar with Win 8.1 (wasn't around for very long though, hmmmm).

Checked my optiplex 780 earlier. Just to prove a point:
Has a 64bit processor, Core 2 duo E7500, 2.95ghz.
DDR3 ram, 4gb.
Radeon 7470 upgrade.
Running WinXP, Mach3 through parallel port.
Faultless.

Is this the motherboard below?
If so the black slot 3rd from left after the 2 white ones is a PCI express x16 graphics slot.
As suggested, try updating existing driver for on board chip first.
If still no good then my 7470 works great so anything around those spec should be good enough.
(I'd go for a 2gb DDR5 if you do some 3D type cutting with long code) you don't need spend too much.

380 board?


Radeon 7470
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-spec...-7470-oem.c299
Cost me £15 at the time.