Graphics card help!!

[JamesPeladeau]

Alright, I'm a noob when it comes to PCs and their hardware. I'm into Skyrim right now (planning on buying Witcher 3 aswell) and my FPS is around 30-38. When I click on pause I can get up to 123! I made some research (not a whole lot) but it seems I need a graphics card for it to run better(makes sense, I figured).
Now there are like a million graphics cards out there and I need to pick one. I have no Idea how this works so I'm just gonna give out as much info as possible. - Asus motherboard(P8H61-M)
- PCIe 2.0 x16
- 16gb RAM
- 350W psu(planning on buying an evga 500W)
- intel core i5-3450 3.10GHz
- 64-bit op system, x64 based processor
My screen is a Samsung syncmaster-1920/1080p. My goal is to be able to play Skyrim (and maybe Witcher 3) at medium/high res. If you guys could point me in the right derection, that'd be great!! By the way, I don't know why, but I'm more inclined towards NVIDIA then AMD (I know a little over nothing of PCs so don't mind my opinion, I don't know why but I got hooked on NVIDIA rather than AMD, maybe it's the green ;p). But if AMD would be better and more affordable I really wouldn't mind. Oh and if it could be max 200$ that'd be wonderful too.

*I've been looking at a EVGA Geforce GTX 660 ti, is that good?*

 

[madmatt30]

The 660ti is out of date - you want to be looking at a gtx 960
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-video-card-gtx9602gd5toc

Or on the amd side an r9 380 - slightly more powerful than the 960 but less efficient
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-video-card-r93802gd5toc

 

[shahalzubayer]

Yes evga 660 ti is good. But here is a good affordable card: evga gtx 750 ti. it is newer, cools better and performs better.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB0QFjAAahUKEwi7rPOF7Z3HAhVKA44KHXOTA40&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.evga.com%2FProducts%2FProductList.aspx%3Ftype%3D0%26family%3DGeForce%2B700%2BSeries%2BFamily%26chipset%3DGTX%2B750%2BTi&ei=4T_IVfu3F8qGuATzpo7oCA&usg=AFQjCNFSTTeKv4kZTZGgofYYMj8wtYCOZQ

and this one is a bit expensive but its great.msi gtx 960 4g
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CDEQFjAEahUKEwjj3NTd7Z3HAhXGco4KHbQoBV4&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMSI-GTX-960-GAMING-4G%2Fdp%2FB00V4HY522&ei=mUDIVaOsGsbluQS00ZTwBQ&usg=AFQjCNE6zo-V4JkTYL7M5o9seZZat5y0qw
the evga gtx 760 is just according to your budget
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CDUQFjADahUKEwjumO6I7p3HAhXCBI4KHQ61D0U&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FEVGA-GeForce-Super-Clocked-Graphics%2Fdp%2FB00DHW4HXY&ei=9EDIVe7OAcKJuASO6r6oBA&usg=AFQjCNGra6os_n_oWziXKMr2A8HaDS1-bA&bvm=bv.99804247,d.c2E

All these 3 gpu are more than enough to handle the games you mentioned. And I personally do not prefer AMD.Hope this helps