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How can you tell if your psu will run a gfx card and whether the card will be compatible with your motherboard?
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If you're at least in the 300W range, you can run a lower-spec GPU fine. Generally speaking as long as your computer motherboard supports PCI Express, they are backwards-compatible (but you may not see the benefits of buying a top-of-the-line GPU for a really old computer). If it does not support PCI Express, you will have a difficult time, but not impossible, to find some old VGA or PCI graphics cards on the cheap somewhere.
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