Looking to buy a new graphics card, any suggestions?

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I am looking for a new GPU for my system and need some advice as I am currently lost in a trove of contradicting advice and prices.

Ideally Im looking to spend under £100 ($170) and get a decent enough card from it.

I want to play games like Skyrim, Natural Selection 2 on high detail and hope to play Battlefield 4 too.

My spec, as it stands, is:

Gigabyte 970A motherboard (PCI Express 2.0)
AMD FX-6300 CPU (HexCore, 3.5GHz)
8GB Ram (can buy more if needed)
Windows 7 64bit



Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.



(as a side note, I am looking to start editing more for a friend so if possible could it cope with editing 1080p videos too)
 
Solution
MSI GTX750Ti is 100 pounds: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-video-card-n750ti2gd5oc

Here's a benchmark list to go by (slightly different GTX750Ti but that doesn't matter much): http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_750_Ti_Gaming/25.html

*VIDEO editing:
1) I'm no expert but I've heard many people say NVidia is better overall for video editing (CUDA) though it depends on the program, and

2)This is the best card you can get at this price anyway so it's pointless to compare to a more expensive video card.
MSI GTX750Ti is 100 pounds: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-video-card-n750ti2gd5oc

Here's a benchmark list to go by (slightly different GTX750Ti but that doesn't matter much): http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_750_Ti_Gaming/25.html

*VIDEO editing:
1) I'm no expert but I've heard many people say NVidia is better overall for video editing (CUDA) though it depends on the program, and

2)This is the best card you can get at this price anyway so it's pointless to compare to a more expensive video card.
 
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ABees

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Im pretty sure that GPU is PCI Express 3.0 and my motherboard only has PCI Express 2.0

Will that still work exactly the same, or will there be issues?