I need a graphics card and ram and will mostly use for playing skyrim and some other not so graphic intensive games. (civ, TF2) unfortantly i am on a very tight budget of $130. any suggestions?
I'm guessing most games will play at max settings with those cards at that resolution. Spend the left over cash on RAM. You only need 4GB to play most of todays games.
Although a single 4GB stick of memory won't allow dual channel operation, there is evidence that it isn't all that much of a setback. But being somewhat of a skeptic, I prefer going dual channel. And you're assuming his board will accept DDR3.