Well, we've ordered a graphics card now. An EVGA dual-fan 1060 6GB for $280. I wish we could have gotten it a bit cheaper, but prices don't seem to be dropping much and the price on this was about to go back up to $300 tomorrow.

@Rosemary ah good choice, I've been super happy with my 1060 6GB

I'd originally went with a 3GB when I built this last year but I quickly found out that that's such a constraining amount for modern games, haha. 6 has been pretty comfy, lots of headroom

@ShugoWah We were initially going to get a 1050 Ti, but after looking into it and deciding we want to have the option to run VR games, we decided to go up a tier. And if we want VR capability, we're going to need more than 3GB of VRAM, or at least that's our impression of the matter.

There was some debate over whether to go with a cheaper RX 580 8GB, but a number of friends have had bad experiences with AMD graphics cards, so we went with nvidia.