Will my computer support the Gtx 750?

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Hey Guys,
I just wanted to know if my computer would support and run the Geforce gtx 750 at it's full potential. Here are my specs below.

Processor: Intel(r) Core(tm)2 cpu 4300 @ 1.8ghz

Ram: 3gb (2.74 usable)

System type: 32 bit

I know it's not the greatest but I recently got the r7 240 and it wasn't really good for gaming and wanted to upgrade to this one.
Thanks for your replies.
 
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Look NBSN means well but he obviously has performance on the brain and not budget upgrades read my posts they will give you a better understanding of what to expect, I have 5 PCs rangeing from P4 to I7 Athlon Xp to to phenom II X6 working with old pcs is something I'am familiar with. the GTX 750 is a low power card designed for budget gaming it will work if you are not tring to push high resolutions with that processer.
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Your system will definitely cause a bottleneck with the GTX 750. You could always get it as long as it is compatible with your PSU and other components, so you could use it again in a later build or upgrade you can do. If you don't plan on upgrading your system within a year or two, then you may want to consider going with a different GPU.
 
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We need the rest of your specs. The motherboard (to check PCIE slot), PSU (to check power connectors), case (to make sure GPU is not going to be to large), and so on. As much information about your EXACT system specs as you can provide to actually be able to properly assist you.
 
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Long story short I have a GTX 650 Ti in a old AMD athlon X2 3800 2.0ghz and it gives frames almost as good as it did when it was in my pheanom II X6 3.0ghz pc so it should not bottle neck to the point where it is usless if that is what you are worried about. After all these cards are designed with weaker pcs in mind.
 
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I don't really know much about computers but I know I have a pcie slot x16, no power connecters, I've checked that it will fit in my motherboard, and my motherboard is msi ms-7241. Windows 7. Hope that helps and didn't need a massive improvement but it should be better than the r7 240 because that wasn't very good.
 
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Getting a new system isn't really a possibility because I don't play very much and just wanted a slight boost in performance and was wondering if this card would be compatible with my shitty system.
 
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Okay, so you have a PCIE x 16 slot, but if you do not have any actual power connectors, it will limit you to GPUs that can only gain power through the PCIE slot. Which honestly does not seem worth upgrading for a slight possible performance gain. After looking up information through Newegg and other sources, I honestly cannot recommend anything that will be worth upgrading to with your current build. Sorry, I sure hope someone else here can have a good idea on it, but without doing other upgrades, I just don't see enough of a performance increase to justify the expense. (To get an extra 2-3 fps, maybe 5 fps for an additional $100+ is not worth it.) If you insist on wanting a different GPU without upgrading any of your system, then I would suggest going for a used GPU (and I a normally against doing that).
 
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It will work fine if you are not tring to do 1080p, if you are doing 1600x900 or 1280x1024 it will work very well with your processor. But I wouldnt expect great performace at 1080p if that is your goal as you processor will hold you back at that resolution.
 
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I understand that, but you would have to replace your PSU to even get a GPU that would be worth upgrading to. And then it would be bottlenecked horribly by your system. You motherboard only supports DDR2 800 MHz RAM (max) and severely limits what you can upgrade to (once again because of the bottleneck caused by RAM and CPU). Also, with a motherboard such as yours, there are possibilities that it would not properly provide enough thorough-put and voltage to through the PCIE connector for a gen 3 GPU. Sure they are set up to be backwards compatible, and the transfer rate is a bit less for gen 2 from gen 3. But from gen 3 to gen 1 would cause quite a bit of a slower performance than gen 3 PCIE port for a gen 3 GPU.
 
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Can't really do much with upgrading my system, but the r7 240 was giving me like a 10-15 fps boost compared to the original one and was wondering if this would give me any higher or would it bottleneck that much that it would only give the same amount?
 
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Look NBSN means well but he obviously has performance on the brain and not budget upgrades read my posts they will give you a better understanding of what to expect, I have 5 PCs rangeing from P4 to I7 Athlon Xp to to phenom II X6 working with old pcs is something I'am familiar with. the GTX 750 is a low power card designed for budget gaming it will work if you are not tring to push high resolutions with that processer.
 
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I don't have a system like that, GhostRunner81 says it will work cause they have done it. So I am out of this thread I guess. But I sure would appreciate a message if you decide to upgrade to the new GPU, that says what fps gain you can get at the same resolution, settings, and games. That way I could have the knowledge in the future to hopefully be able to cite this as a prime example. Thanks.
 
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yes lower the resolution in your games, you dont have to turn down the desktop resolution just the resolution settings in your games.

Probably go for 1280x720 for gaming on the 1080p monitor or use an older 1280x1024 monitor for gaming and the 1080p for web browsing/streaming
 
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