Mainboard Graphic card compatibility (G41m-P43 Combo)

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Hi, i have an old PC i want to upgrade. It should be able to play games like Fallout 4 or Call of Duty Black Ops 3 at fullHD + high details.

It shuold not support the best settings, but good ones though, medium-high at fullHD.

So what i thought about would be a r9 270x. but then i saw theres a GTX 960 for the same price available.

Now theres my problem: i have an old mainboard, old CPU. my CPU is Intel Core 2 Q9400. I read its a good CPU from old times and that it can keep up with a r9 270x. I dont know if it will bottleneck the 960 but i think its still better to get the 960, because its better and has the same price. The main point is my Mainboard though. Its the G41m-P43 Combo. http://de.msi.com/product/mb/G41M-P43-Combo.html#hero-specification

I dont know much of computers thats why i'll just ask here. after googling, im still not 100% sure.

so does this mainboard even support the 270x or even the 960, too ? I got a new power supply with enough power so the mainboard is the only problem. I googled and found some people saying the mainboard has to support PCIe 3.0 and some say it just has to support PCIe 1.

Thanks
 
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Your CPU will likely create a minor bottleneck for those cards but I wouldn't worry about that, I'd suggest the GTX960 for your system which should get you good performance.
The PCIe x16 is backward compatible so you needn't worry about whether you've got PCIe 3.0 or 2.0 or 1 even, as long as it's PCIe x16
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Your CPU will likely create a minor bottleneck for those cards but I wouldn't worry about that, I'd suggest the GTX960 for your system which should get you good performance.
The PCIe x16 is backward compatible so you needn't worry about whether you've got PCIe 3.0 or 2.0 or 1 even, as long as it's PCIe x16
 
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Thank you very much for helping.

By the way, are there brands known for being good or being bad ? Googled it already but its better to ask someone personally again.
 
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Over the years I've run almost every brand of graphics card out there. I honestly can't say that I found one brand preferable to another. For NVidia cards I'd say look to EVGA who has something going with NVidia (EVGA doesn't make any AMD graphics cards) but Asus seems to always provide quality products so IMO they are just as good an option. I've even found that Zotac cards (usually the least expensive) hold up well.
 
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