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Online game sharper but slower with new video card?

Environment: Stand alone PC, XP Professional,  Presario desktop, 1MB Ram, Processor: AMD Athlon 299+ 2.0 GHz.   I replaced a Radeon 9200 video card with a Radeon 1050x video card.  I play Call to Duty 2 online.  With new video card the image is sharper but the action is a little slower. (I'm getting killed way too often..lol)  Is there anything I can tweak to make things a little faster.    
Also, the new video card requires a 300 watt power supply assuming a fully loaded system.  My power supply 250 watt.  What constitutes a fully loaed system?  I still have open slots so am I ok with 250w?
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Your system is underpower though. You should have at least 500 W power supply. See the link below and calculate yourself how much your system need:

http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculator.jsp
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Is the frame rate different than the refresh rate?  Having trouble finding where to specify a frame rate.
Framerate is the number of individual frames that the computer sends to the screen. Refresh rate is the number of times the screen refreshes. If you have a refresh rate of 60 and a framerate of 20, each frame will be refreshed 3 times by the screen before moving to the next frame.

To show framerate ingame, open a console and type: cg_drawfps 1
You can also download FRAPS ( http://www.fraps.com/ ) which will let you see the framerate for any game.