Buying A GFX Card Need Help

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hoodlums562

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I have a MSI-740GM-P25 Motherboard and Im looking to buy a graphics card to play some relatively new games! It has a pci-e x16 slot and I am wondering what is the difference between the various type of memory each graphics card has! The motherboard itself has DDR3 memory. What card would be compatible with this motherboard and what card should I get for a cheap price that will play games like Dead Island decently. Thanks In advance
 
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theonerm2

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Before I recommend a graphics card I want to know what kind of CPU is installed, how much RAM is installed, and what kind of power supply is installed. The brand and wattage of the power supply is the most important thing that I need to know. Also the amount of RAM and CPU is very important too.
 
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hoodlums562

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Do you have a link for the 1gb? I am more then likely going to go to Fry's and buy a card but what is the difference with the type of memory each card carries? That card has DD5 memory is that compatible with the DDR3 that the motherboard has?
 
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Bottleneck means that the GPU's true power wont be unleashed as you have a low end CPU, i.e. in cpu intensive games you will get bad framerates
 
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Yeah. Dead Island isn't that demanding. I've played both Dead Island and Dead Island Riptide on a dual core processor with a horribly outdated DirectX 10 graphics card and it played fine at 1366x768 resolution. And as far as the RAM on your motherboard goes... That doesn't affect your graphics card. It has its own memory "GDDR5" that runs directly off of the card itself. The GPU has its own memory and the CPU has its own memory... They don't affect each other.
 
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