Nvidia product are very easy.

Top End - Titan Products
Very High End - 1080 GTX
High End - 1070 GTX
Mid Range - 1060 GTX
Low End - 1050 GTX

Everything below, for HTCP and budget-gamers not wanting to play the newest gmes, but games like DOTA and stuff.

now in the 7xx series, your buy was the same, a low end product in the series what is now many years old, I bought the 780GTX, which was the very high end back then and that card still performance in the mid-range of the current market.

If you buy graphics card, do your research, go to reliable websites, like toms hardware or guru3d and read their reviews, see the benchmarks, or ask for advice on VGchartz, but trust me, your card was never ment for a high end gaming PC

You need more ram, and it looks like you purchased a budget gpu. Mine is a 670 and looking at benchmarks it looks like that beats yours soundly in all areas. Don't always assume higher numbers = better.

But don't think you need some $500 gpu or anything. My 670 plays all current games still great.

But you should upgrade your ram for sure. Just spend like $60 and get a couple 8 gig sticks. You may not need 16 gigs total, but for the price why not. Ram is cheap.

If you want a cheap gpu upgrade that will play these games on medium just fine, try the geforce 950... it's remarkably inexpensive.

Then again I imagine there's cheaper options from the 10 series now as well.

Yep, but first he needs to check if his PSU can handle the extra watts, the TDP of that 750 is low.

But his i3 won't be lasting him 5+ years, at best a year or two and it won't serve for games that demand that bit more from the CPU. If the i3 was honestly that good, we'd all be sporting it over i5's and i7's, but that isn't really much the case these days. 

If he just goes for say an i5 4670k, he'll be fine for a good number of years, and it won't break the bank either (not as much as what you'd fetch for most i7's).

Don't mean to hijack your thread, but since there's PC people in here thought I'd ask about a problem of mine without starting a new one... I recently updated just about everything in preparation for VR, including a new motherboard. It has plenty of RAM (48gb), an i7 6850k, the recent pascal arch geforce Titan, and the new mobo is a ASRock X99 Extreme4 LGA 2011-v3 Intel X99 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX. Plus, I've reinstalled my Windows 10pro on a Samsung EVO 450gb SSD.

All drivers are updated, everything seems like it SHOULD be blazing along (and it is once I log into the computer), but the boot up takes damn near forever. I think it must be the mobo as it can be a solid minute before I even get the boot screen asking whether I'd like to visit BIOS or not, and then another minute after. I really can't figure out what on earth the issue is, but once the OS is loaded everything works just fine. It's not really a huge problem, then, but it's a bit irritating.

Anyone ever run into this issue? I can't find much about it online.

No argument with that i3 not lasting him another 5 years, but no need for anything "K", lest you overclock. Any Haswell i5, e.g i5 4460 will be perfectly good for most anything considering the GPU-bound nature of games these days - that CPU is great value these days, and in the future, should only fall in price.

Nevertheless, any i3, gen 4 and later, which is not cache-starved, is perfectly good for most games these days. I would get a new GPU and another stick of RAM.

Yeah I'm using a SSD but you did make me think of something just now actually, could it perhaps be the additional normal HDD that I have connected for storage? It boots from the SSD but I keep the HDD connected and available for things I don't need quickly loaded. I donno why that would slow things down, but I suppose it might.

Thanks, I'll do that.

I wouldn't be surprised actually.

What's strange is I can't seem to boot into the HDD, but I can still access it just fine and use it for storage. I might just transfer all those files to one of my externals and reformat it.