Upgrading from HD 4600 onboard graphics (need help)

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Budget range is around £100 (Around 150 US $) or less, want to upgrade my onboard graphics which I've had for a while now. I've never bought a graphics card before so I really need some help picking the right card :X

Main usage: Watching movies, playing light games (LoL/RuneScape etc), definitely planning on playing modern titles, games from 2012-13 etc, nothing specific but medium settings on most would be fine.

Other system specs: Core i7 4770, Asus H81M-A Motherboard (PCIE 1.1 - it needs to be compatible with this slot), Corsair 430W PSU, 8GB Vengeance RAM

Preferred website is amazon or any UK retailer. I won't be overclocking or anything hardcore like that, just need one card to run modern games at medium-high settings on 1920x1080 resolution with a decent framerate

My motherboard only has a PCI-E 1.1 slot which kinda sucks. I didn't know about this before and so I need a card that will work with this! Thanks. Also if it would be better to upgrade my motherboard so I can get PCI-E 3.0 please let me know (Current mobo works fine but limited expansion).
 
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That MB's chipset supports PCIe 2.0. Where did you see 1.1? http://ark.intel.com/products/75016/Intel-DH82H81-PCH

Your main issue will be the PSU. That will limit you to a mid-range card anyway. Maybe something like the R7-260X/R7-265/HD 7850 or GTX 750 Ti.
AMD: http://www.ebuyer.com/581417-msi-r7-260x-2gb-gddr5-dual-dvi-hdmi-displayport-pci-e-graphics-card-r7-260x-2gd5-oc
Nvidia: http://www.ebuyer.com/621484-evga-gtx-750-superclocked-1gb-gddr5-dvi-hdmi-displayport-pci-e-graphics-card-01g-p4-2753-kr

What resolution is your monitor?
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That MB's chipset supports PCIe 2.0. Where did you see 1.1? http://ark.intel.com/products/75016/Intel-DH82H81-PCH

Your main issue will be the PSU. That will limit you to a mid-range card anyway. Maybe something like the R7-260X/R7-265/HD 7850 or GTX 750 Ti.
AMD: http://www.ebuyer.com/581417-msi-r7-260x-2gb-gddr5-dual-dvi-hdmi-displayport-pci-e-graphics-card-r7-260x-2gd5-oc
Nvidia: http://www.ebuyer.com/621484-evga-gtx-750-superclocked-1gb-gddr5-dvi-hdmi-displayport-pci-e-graphics-card-01g-p4-2753-kr

What resolution is your monitor?
 
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The resolution is the standard 1920x1080 resolution on a 24 inch display. Also I'm fairly sure the PCIe version is 1.1 which is pretty dumb. I saw this on the Asus site but it's also on newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132044 which shows reviews of people saying that the slot is only 1.1

I'll probably buy a cheap motherboard but with PCIe 3.0 this time and return this motherboard since it's fairly new.
Anyway thanks. I'll go for the nvidia card since it seems like a reputable company and fits under my budget.

 
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The one person in the reviews that made that comment doesn't know what he's talking about. No one makes a Haswell board with PCIe 1.1 version anymore. Let alone ASUS.
 
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Specs on ASUS site shows it's just PCI-E x16: https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/H81MA/specifications/

Previous thread saying it runs at 1.1: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-1818131/asus-h81m-pcie-x16-gen2-gen3.html

It seems more likely that it would run on PCI-E 2.0 (as some budget 1150 motherboards do) but it isn't specified anywhere. Sooo no idea.

 
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