Good Video Card on a Budget?

I'm interested in getting a new video card for my pc. Currently i'm using a nvideo geforce 7050 which is pretty good for a built-in card but i'd like to get something better. some games i play are only going at 10fps so iwas wondering if i could do a decent upgrade on a budget. I've only got around $70 so first i'm thinking is that, is this possible? Second if it is, what should i be looking for: built-in memory, core speed...
I've been looking at newegg's deals:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...2&N=2010380048
and it looks like PCI express is the way to go now. I'd like to get an Nvidia card because I've had so good of an experience with Nvidia on Linux, but have seen some good things on ATI too. Any thoughts?

The computer does have a PCI express slot and thanks for the tip about looking at the core as i didn't know they did that.
Did a bit of research and learned a few things. First off that the versioning (8400...) tells what features the card has (core [usually],dx10, vdpau...) and that GS/GT/GTS are for clock speeds. GTS prices are... well, out of the budget. But a good GT card will be able to boost things quite a bit. Currently I'm getting ~10fps for wow, 40fps for Urban Terror, and ~15fps on Doom3 at a horrible 640x480, so there's definitely room for improvment.
The GeForce 9500 looks pretty good and been thinking about the Geforce 9600 which is pretty much a trimmed down 8800 GTS. Couldn't find any reviews of the 9600 gso for gaming so i'm not sure about that. I'm going to look at ebay and see just what i can find there.

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so I can run the apple cinema 30inch also.
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I've been watching this forum for years, and I'll have to say that gamers are not a big group around here. A few things. First, getting 8GB of RAM for the MacBook Pro is cheap. Most people either don't care, pay Apple to do it, or, like me, DIY. The max you put in a MBP is 8GB, so no 16GB, unless you were looking at the iMac or MacPro.
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Good morning , I bought my mac pro 13 ' in 2011 (OX 10.10) , in March 2014 I had to replace the video card , fortunately under warranty.
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