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lol! That sounds somewhat familiar, females seem to have mastered that look.
A better card will improve the experience, but with that CPU it'll never be brilliant, it should be relatively smooth but not at high settings.
A GTX750 is actually significantly better than a GT740, and you're probably only looking at spending an extra $20 more. From the sounds of it (I hope) you're not playing at 1080p, probably 720p? (1366x768 or thereabouts), in which case a GTX750 (or GTX750Ti) would do the job nicely.
Your power supply will need to be able to supply the amount of power required, but as far as I know, the GTX750 doesn't really take up more power than the 8400GS you currently have, so it should be an easy swap-in, swap-out procedure. You won't need any extra cables from the power supply, the slot will power the card itself.
For those of you who are wondering why I'm not recommending any Radeon cards, it's because they consume a lot more power, and would result in a larger expense to upgrade an already aged system.
Some modern games actually require a quad core, so you won't be able to play those, but for ARMA III the current setup (with a GTX750) will probably suffice.
A GTX750 will put you back about $65 (including mail-in rebate) - MSI N750-1GD5/OC G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 750 1GB 128-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card - Newegg.com
A better card will improve the experience, but with that CPU it'll never be brilliant, it should be relatively smooth but not at high settings.
A GTX750 is actually significantly better than a GT740, and you're probably only looking at spending an extra $20 more. From the sounds of it (I hope) you're not playing at 1080p, probably 720p? (1366x768 or thereabouts), in which case a GTX750 (or GTX750Ti) would do the job nicely.
Your power supply will need to be able to supply the amount of power required, but as far as I know, the GTX750 doesn't really take up more power than the 8400GS you currently have, so it should be an easy swap-in, swap-out procedure. You won't need any extra cables from the power supply, the slot will power the card itself.
For those of you who are wondering why I'm not recommending any Radeon cards, it's because they consume a lot more power, and would result in a larger expense to upgrade an already aged system.
Some modern games actually require a quad core, so you won't be able to play those, but for ARMA III the current setup (with a GTX750) will probably suffice.
A GTX750 will put you back about $65 (including mail-in rebate) - MSI N750-1GD5/OC G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 750 1GB 128-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card - Newegg.com