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  1. 550 power supply should be fine 

    sometime motherboard pci-e on some motherboard have bug and need new bios to make graphic card to work

    the graphic card can work with out the pci-e power supply they need the power when you start doing game that push the graphic card

    i know that some board can support both the onboard and external graphic. or go in the bios and diable the internal graphic

    Select the option in Advanced BIOS Features -> Chipset Feature -> On-Chip VGA.

    if on reboot it does not work you can reset the bios.

    check the manual for the board

     

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  2. may be a setting in the bios. as i dont know msi bios sorry . i worked for foxconn in the past so know there bios a lot more

    there was a option to look for external card. you may want to check msi site for graphic card support to see if they tested and passed or not

  3. this is your board spec

    https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/880GME43/Specification

    you have 1 x ide port

    5 x  sata port so you good later to add more disk

    cpu spec was good but very old now days so look very slow to what out there now

    but it a good platform for you and as i said get you game going and sell you be happy 

    the board use a good chipset the build in graphic are long in the tooth but this type of board i still use for my media center machine that i've had for 10 years 

    so like i said good platform

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  4. the price of ssd are going down all  the time what you want is a 250gb ssd for the os 

    and a 1tb harddisk for data this way you get a fast boot up and main data(bigfile) are not on the boot disk

    anyway hope you you start to sell you game make a little money to buy new hardware

     

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  5. if memory stick are different not match pair you get problem 

    and yes some memory test software do not work and other are better memtest86+ is a good one to try 

    the other problem is now day the memory controller is in the cpu and if the paste on the cpu is old you get temp problems

    even if the cpu say temp ok a spot on the chip is not .

    so worth taking off the heatsink and clean up thge old paste and add new paste

    this help a lot.

    old psu can cause problems as they stop giving a nice clean power line to the motherboard

    and clean all the dust out as well the biggest killer of computer lol 

     

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