Hello!

I'd like your help here. I want to buy a good graphics card for a PC I'm building. The thing is that I don't know what to look for. Any say memory isn't the most important, which I thought it was. After a google search, I was even more confused. Can tell me what to look for when buying a graphics card?

Benchmarks show you how each card performs per game

To point you in the right direction, AMD cards are currently at 7xxx series and nVidia are at 6xx series

Well, memory really isn't that important, sure it has some factor, but it shouldn't be the reason you choose a particular card.

What you want to look at is stuff like core clock, shader model, DX modem, memory speed (GDDR5 is the current I believe, GDDR3 was before that).

One easy thing to check is model numbers. The current nVidia naming scheme is 2\3\4\5\6x0, so basically a x50 card+ will be a card that can can be usable, a x60 card+ is better.

As for ATI, I believe that x770+ is better, but I haven't kept up with ATI stuff in a while, as I haven't had an ATI card...ever really.

The video cards sold today is "priced accordingly". You pay for what you get.

Although the high end AMD 79xx are significantly slower than nVidia's high end cards. You'll be disappointed with high end AMD video cards for the price you pay (about $500).

I always complain how crossfire only runs at 8x unless you have the high performance x68/x79 chipset.

Depends what you wanna do with it, if you want to be a hardcore budget gamer, go with a NVidia GTX 550Ti/560Ti or a Radeon HD series 6770/6850/6870. Make sure the clock speed is over 800MHz for decent speeds and at least 1GB of GDDR5 memory, there are also 2GB edition models if you have a higher budget.

I'd say go custom. Choose what you like, how you like it.

Actually, here is a better question: What do you want to do? If you want to do games like Portal 2 and stuff like that then a mid range card will work, but if you want to run stuff like Crysis, Skyrim, etc, then a high end card is going to be needed.

If you want to do no gaming at all then a basic card like a GT440 will work fine, and it can also run Portal 1 and 2 at around 40 FPS, not great but it works.

Look, I can play all Source games very well with the laptop's graphics card, an nVidia GeForce 8200M G. With the new card on the new PC, I'd like to run games like Skyrim and such. I've found a Club 3D AMD Radeon HD 7750 at a very good price (105€) which I'm considering now.

Coming from an 8200M G, any 7xxx series card will be a massive upgrade, and the HD 7750 should play Skyrim fine, maybe not with Ultra settings and the graphics update pack but it will play it fine