Best Graphics card for under $200?

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thunter7891

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Hey there! I am new to the world of PC builds, yet eager to learn. I ordered a computer kit and built my first set up just a few days ago to help a friend save money and fell in love. After finding out I could have saved a lot of money if I had the knowledge to pick those parts myself, I have been reading everything I can on PC Components and how they work together. So, this is sort of a two question thread.

First, I am now attempting to build me a budget PC. After doing some research I decided to go with the GTX 1050 ti, or R9 280 if I can find one. My questions for you are, would these be my best option for 1080p gaming? And if so/not, why? I play a range of games from WoW, League, The Division, Skyrim, ect.

I'm also looking to learn this information for myself so I don't have to bother you guys every time I have a question. Is there anyone who could point me in the right direction to understand GPU specs? I have read a few different sites, yet they are either common sense or way over my head. Thanks!
 
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Those GPU's will be enough to play 1080p, although a struggle in some games, but such as Skyrim, they will run it maxed out on 1080p, I had a 750Ti and it ran it at maximum settings.

GPU Specs aren't really necessary, as all the cards such as 1050's, 1050 Ti's etc, all perform really similar to other 1050's or 1050Ti's, if you know what I mean.

But if you want to look at the specs, look at the power usage, memory clock speed (Will most likely be the same across the board) and the regular clock speed, the only one that will change dramatically is the clock speed (Which for the newer cards seem to be around 1700Mhz for the higher cards, (1060/1070/1080) and around 1400MHz for 1050 Ti/1050.
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Those GPU's will be enough to play 1080p, although a struggle in some games, but such as Skyrim, they will run it maxed out on 1080p, I had a 750Ti and it ran it at maximum settings.

GPU Specs aren't really necessary, as all the cards such as 1050's, 1050 Ti's etc, all perform really similar to other 1050's or 1050Ti's, if you know what I mean.

But if you want to look at the specs, look at the power usage, memory clock speed (Will most likely be the same across the board) and the regular clock speed, the only one that will change dramatically is the clock speed (Which for the newer cards seem to be around 1700Mhz for the higher cards, (1060/1070/1080) and around 1400MHz for 1050 Ti/1050.
 
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Thunter7891, Welcome to the PC Building world xD

Tom's hardware community and website helped me a lot in the past, I usually start my search by checking the best graphics card topic http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-gpus,4380.html then I pick a price range And then I start looking around for the cards within the price range and the best performance by reading and watching reviews and benchmarks of the cards.

Memory clock, speed, core numbers and other specs are harder to compare mainly between older cards and newer ones or Nvidia vs AMD, it's much easier to compare different cards with performance on benchmarks than pure specs. Specs are better to compare similar cards or the same model with different brands. Http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/ also gives a good information to compare cards.

Well, for your case, I have a R9 280X in my PC, It's 3 years old and it still has a great performance in 1080p.
Last time I was playing Doom on ultra and it's FPS was around 80 in most of the time.
A little below $ 200 I would get the RX470, that's about 35% better performance than mine 280X (and with less power usage and newer), and about 60% better performance than the 1050ti. I think it would be the best solution for 2 or 3 years before you need to upgrade it.
 
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