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People here typically advise aspiring gamers to get at least a GTX 760 or R9 270X, on the grounds that "they'll play most games at mid-high settings". That's kind of not accurate, based on what I've seen, and it makes me wonder if the people saying it have owned a budget graphics card in the last ~five years.

I just got my GTX 750 Ti recently, but it's running the majority of games at 60 fps 1080p, ultra settings, which surprised me. Borderlands 2 is 70 fps at ultra, many others are always above 60 fps on ultra settings. Far Cry 3 is the hardest I've tested on this card (don't have some games installed yet) and it's running at 40+ fps on ultra.

Granted, that's not quite Battlefield 4, but games like that are a rarity. It seems pretty misleading to push suggested builds past their budget while claiming they won't get adequate performance out of an HD 7850, GTX 750 Ti, R7 265, etc. Especially when they say they're just building it for games that would run on a potato, like CSGO or Minecraft, which show up a lot around here.
 
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While I agree that most better games are less demanding(Divinity Original Sin is the highest rated game of 2014, Dota 2 is the most played game) people here who usually ask questions are of the type - 'Can I run Crysis 3?'

And i bet half of those people are going to run the pirated version of Crysis 3
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While I agree that most better games are less demanding(Divinity Original Sin is the highest rated game of 2014, Dota 2 is the most played game) people here who usually ask questions are of the type - 'Can I run Crysis 3?'

And i bet half of those people are going to run the pirated version of Crysis 3
 
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Due to a power supply issue my machine had to be temporarily downgraded from a GTX670 to a 5770 while my PSU was in for an RMA. I'm having just as much fun playing games, I just usually have to turn down a bit of eye candy in most cases and can't run with much AA turned on.

Most of the games I play though are MMO style games where CPU is usually a good chunk of the performance equation rather than something like BF4 that doesn't rely on CPU almost at all for the single player mode and is only in the full maps does it really start to count.

On the other hand, the settings I play on Firefall with my 670 made it so that only the ground and buildings would load in by the time I ran through the city with my 5770, making the game completely unplayable until I turned it almost all way down. None of the intractable items would be visible at all and mobs couldn't be seen until 15-20 seconds after they actually spawned. If it were instead a 760 or 7850 it most likely wouldn't be a problem, so would you rather spend an extra 100 bucks to just select high in every game or would you you spend less to have to tweak most new games ever time you want to play them without issues.

I always recommend paying extra for the good quality gear so that there won't be a feeling of "I payed 600 bucks for this machine and I have to manually select settings all the time to make my games even playable" instead of "I payed 700 bucks for this machine and just select high all the time and it runs fine".
 
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