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I'm planning on buying a Graphic's card this week to upgrade my CyberpowerPC Black Gamer Ultra GUA250's Geforce GT 520.
I don't have a lot to spend maybe $75 at most.

I want to play mostly shooters like COD, MOH, SWOR etc.

I currently have a AMD Quad-Core FX-4100 processor 3.60GHz, 4MB L2 Cache. With a 500 watt AC 120/230 V ( 50/60 Hz) power supply, and a AMD 760G mobo with Expansion Slots Total (Free) 1 ( 0 ) x pci express x16 2 ( 2 ) x pci express x1 1 ( 1 ) x pci 2 ( 0 ) x dimm 240-pin .

I don't care where I have to order it from...unless they have a bad reputation.

I'd like a AMD since that is what my processor is, but any that will install with minimum effort is better.

I haven't overclocked or made any changes whatsoever so far and my monitor is an AOC 2243 watt with 1920 x 1080 recommended resolution.

I have heard that I might need wires for the cable supply but am not sure.

I'm thinking that the Sapphire Radeon HD6670 1 GB DDR3 VGA/DVI/HDMI PCI-Express Video Card might be my best bet but if you know of better please let me know. Thanks.

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Wouldnt bother trying to upgrade the GPU with that little amount of cash. You wouldn't be able to get anything with a big enough performance boost to justify the cost.

I would save up until you can afford at least a HD7750, if not a GTX660.
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I plan on putting more memory (8GBb) in it bringing it to 16 total, do you know if the graphics card is going to take up that slot? I know this sounds like a stupid question since I can just go and look for myself but I am ill right now and bending over even slight movement puts me in a lot of pain and discomfort.
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RAM slots into the DIMM's next to the CPU.
Graphics cards go in the PCI-Express ports below the CPU.

Entirely different ports, don't think there would even be a way for them to conflict.

Well I ordered the Gigabyte Technology - Radeon HD 7750 Graphic Card - 880 MHz Core - 1 GB GDDR5 SDRAM - PCI Express 2.1 .
$117 after tax and shipping, I just couldn't wait with 2 new games set to be delivered tomorrow. Hope I can feel good enough to install it when it gets here and don't run into any problems. Thanks for everyone's help.
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Dracula70 said:
Well I ordered the Gigabyte Technology - Radeon HD 7750 Graphic Card - 880 MHz Core - 1 GB GDDR5 SDRAM - PCI Express 2.1 .
$117 after tax and shipping, I just couldn't wait with 2 new games set to be delivered tomorrow. Hope I can feel good enough to install it when it gets here and don't run into any problems. Thanks for everyone's help.

enjoy your new gigabyte 7750 :hello: 

...I mean MOH...lol
I finished installing the new card without issue, man! it's nice! One thing I learned was the card that I took out was not the one they advertised it for. I was advertised having the GeForce GT 520 and it actually had the GeForce GT 610. I guess it doesn't matter I'm not using it anyways, but now I have a brand new 610 for sale!...lol
I installed MOH: warfighter and it runs flawlessly, I went to install SWTOR and had nothing but problems. I finally learned that it's a multi-player online game and I hate those games anyways, but I forked out the bucks for a coaster. I'll look for a couple new games this weekend being sure to make sure they have campaigns on them. If you have any suggetions for shooters let me know.

Thanks for the game suggestions, I remember mass effect when it first came out.
I'll post some benchmark results soon, it seems that I have reached my GB limit on my
internet plan and am paying $15 a GB every one I go over.
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