Watched loads of youtube videos about gaming either with a top notch card or a budget one (Budget prices are scary aren't they?) and of course even cheap ones and the genre is battered with snobbery, it's a little like the Linux community always fighting and arguing with each other or dick waving.
What I have gleaned is this.
30fps is consistent with console gaming and this can be achieved even without a discrete graphics card.
That's good enough for me.
Most of the AAA titles (Isn't it weird how all the youtube channels benchmark using the same ones?) are games I would never even look twice at, that GTA and beating prostitutes up could have been updated for a Manchester audience and had permed chubsters clicking like Dolphins being chased through Ardwick.
So I don't care about the really new games but the classics and emulators, the advice here is good for me in as much as I don't need a completely new rig (It's what the kids say nowadays innit?) just a new slightly faster APU with maybe more RAM :)