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Best compatible card for my board?

Your motherboard supports PCIe 3.0 graphics, therefore should is 'compatible' with many modern cards (although some newer ones may not be compatible with older style, non UEFI, BIOS - I'm not sure which off the top of my head)
Your current graphics card has very low power requirements so we'll definitely need to know what your PSU is (Wattage as well as make and model, plus ideally how old it is) to make any useful recommendations.

Tbh though with a system that old it will severely bottleneck a lot of cards so you won't be able to use them to their full potential, in this case I'd probably look at how quickly you can also upgrade the rest of the system as well.
If you're happy to go second hand you can probably pick up a CPU, board and RAM that will be a HUGE upgrade over that for a bit over £100
 
With old PCs I often look at the user profiles on this website, scroll down to "User benchmarks for this motherboard" and you can then click a profile and read what the card is and the BIOS date & version.

From the looks of it, you can buy whatever you want, but your CPU will be an enormous bottleneck for any recent card, so it doesn't make sense to spend much on it.

You can get a H610/B760 for £60-£80 and an i3-12100 for around £70 (includes a cooler), with 16-32GB of DDR4 between £25-£60. I'd strongly recommend doing that and then you'll get most of the performance out of a newer card like the RX 6600 (£180).

If you're determined to replace what you have, I'd consider a 1050 Ti or a GTX 1650 (only the models with no power connector).

They're not the best cards (TPU's GPU database says 68% and 111% faster than a 750 Ti, respectively), but for an older PC with an old PSU, they're likely to be the safest option.
 
Well, 420w on the 12v rail, which isn't the worst I've seen at all. Some 450w units have something like 280w and that would be bad.

It's not gonna burn your house down but at 420w, you'd need to figure out your current system's power consumption. If for example without graphics card that was 150w, I'd probably look for a card that also has a power draw of 150w to stay within safe limits.
 
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Alpha_Num3ric said:
May bid on a GTX1050Ti Gaming Graphics Card, 4GB GDDR5 I've seen on Ebay. has a draw rated at 75 W maximum so should be safe. Surely this will add a little boost as compared to my current card and see me through until a new build (?)
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68% faster (TPU's GPU database) is a decent upgrade, but note that some 1050 Ti models did have a power connector.
 
Alpha_Num3ric said:
May bid on a GTX1050Ti Gaming Graphics Card, 4GB GDDR5 I've seen on Ebay. has a draw rated at 75 W maximum so should be safe. Surely this will add a little boost as compared to my current card and see me through until a new build (?)
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That'd get you the boost you say you're looking for. But as @Tetras correctly states, some require a power connector. Try to find one thst doesn't, as the slot on your current board has been providing the required 75w with the 750ti. Might be worth double checking that the slot does give that power, but I'm pretty sure it must.
 
Alpha_Num3ric said:
Thanks, but what difference does the power cable make and why is it better to find a card without one?

Managed to find a Zotac GTX 1050 Ti card for sale which doesn't have a cable.
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That should do you fine. The extra power connector isn't necessary for a 1050ti, there's nothing to be gained from having one. Overclocked models are likely to have a connector, but it's not worth overclocking a 1050ti, minimal gains.

So if you can do without one, that's one single point of failure less in your system.
 
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