Upgrade to new motherboard and graphics card - which ones to choose?

25jonathan

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Hi

My motherboard in my desktop recently died and I'm now in need for a new one. It is a fairly powerful PC with quadcore, 8gig ram, 7200rpm harddisk, but at rather bad graphics card.

The old motherboard is an "asus p7h55-m series". I'm thinking that now i need a new motherboard i might as well upgrade the graphics card to and get at decent gaming PC for games like skyrim, BF3 etc.

I'm a student and on a budget so i want the bang for the buck hardware. Any suggestions?
I want to run the mentioned games smoothly at a decent graphics level, but i'm in no need of running it with extreme graphics and 8x AA

Thanks!