Matching new Graphic card with old Motherboard

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Ask for guru's kind suggestion please:

I have got an old motherboard (bought in 2011) - Gigabyte XKT-1155 Z68AP-D3. Since the old graphic card is not working. I am looking to buy a new graphic card for 3D PC game: Rise of Tomb Raider. Now I see this new product - Gigabyte NVIDIA GTX 750Ti 2GB PCI-E Graphics Card. I am not sure whether this new card will be supported by motherboard. Can anyone advise before buying? Many thanks.
 
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The monitor is just fine.
The CPU will also be fine, even if it's an older i5 it'll still handle current games more than well enough.
You should have no problems with compatibility between the motherboard and a GTX750Ti-although you might want to flash the motherboard BIOS to the latest version before making the upgrade.

The issue I see is that the GTX750Ti is just not going to handle current games at 1080 rez. Even at low settings you'll have to turn the resolution down to get consistent, reasonable gameplay throughout RoTTR.
If you are looking to get reasonable gaming out of this system I suggest you look at a far stronger card: GTX960 from Nvidia or a R9 380 from AMD, both of which will play even current games quite well even if you...
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As your board has multiple PCIe x16 slots, any PCIe graphics card will be compatible, granted your power supply is enough. With a 750ti, you don't really need to worry about the PSU all that much as long as it is of decent quality.

The 750ti will be perfectly compatible with your board.
 
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Thank you very much PreXMystic! I have got PSU: Coolermaster Elite Power 500 - is it good enough to support the power consumption?

 
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That'll be more than enough :)
 
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What are the full system specs?
What is the monitor resolution?
A GTX750Ti is going to really struggle with Rise of the Tomb Raider, particularly in the Geothermal Valley and Soviet Installation levels. Even on low, and at 1080 rez, my rig will drop to under 60FPS in these very demanding sections.
 
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My monitor spec: Samsung S22A350H 22 inch Widescreen LED monitor (MEGA DCR, 1920 x 1080 Full HD, 2ms, HDMI/VGA). Is it not good enough?

CPU is i5 3.30GHz, 8G RAM should be ok?

 
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The monitor is just fine.
The CPU will also be fine, even if it's an older i5 it'll still handle current games more than well enough.
You should have no problems with compatibility between the motherboard and a GTX750Ti-although you might want to flash the motherboard BIOS to the latest version before making the upgrade.

The issue I see is that the GTX750Ti is just not going to handle current games at 1080 rez. Even at low settings you'll have to turn the resolution down to get consistent, reasonable gameplay throughout RoTTR.
If you are looking to get reasonable gaming out of this system I suggest you look at a far stronger card: GTX960 from Nvidia or a R9 380 from AMD, both of which will play even current games quite well even if you have to turn some settings down to get a smooth experience. Selecting the R9 380 will require a fairly strong power supply BTW.
 
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