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Post Date: 2011-10-04
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    Posted: 04 Oct 2011 at 2:37pm
So I got that bug again, you know looking at magazine articles, reading online reviews among other things generally PC related. Love
 
And with a slew of new games on the horizon (rage), SW:tor, BF3, D3 etc), I'm looking at my spec's and seeing where I can upgrade.
 
Specifically Ram and GPU's
 
I have 6g DD3 @ 1600 mghz, thinking about upgrading to 8-12g. Not sure about this because I never see my ram usage above 60%, what do you guys think?
 
The other is my GPU's I run 2x 560 TI's, would I see a improvement buying a 580/590 and running in sli or 1 560 as a dedicated physx card?
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Upgrading your memory from 6GB is going to hardly produce any performance gains for gaming as games don't use that much system memory.
 
The biggest improvements to performance can be done with a higher CPU speed (overclock or processor/platform upgrade) or upgrading your video cards.
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As Alex said more ram will not give you more performance.

I see reviews/articles that have gaming machines that have more then 8GB of ram, that immediately tells me that those sites/reviews don't know crap about what is what and I ignore them, you should do the same.

if you are at sli 560, I would run the games mentioned and then if I need more gpu power I would consider it.

590 is a terrible idea, you will never see anybody that knows whats what recommend 590 on this board.

and going sli 580 from sli 560 is not a great idea.

let me ask you a few questions, what is your psu and what is your res?

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Yea I kinda figured that with the ram, basically only need as much as you use. I have a 1000 watt psu, 16:9 1920x1080 on a 46" Samsung led lcd TV
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nothing really worth upgrading yet in my opinion
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Posts: 36758 		  Quote DST4ME Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 05 Oct 2011 at 12:46am
I'm with rice, I would not upgrade sli 560 at your res, you are going to have little gains that are going to be very expensive.

on top of that new gpus are gonna be out in jan/feb, wait and see if they are that much better, but you should only update when your gpus are not giving you what you need.

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Thanks for the info guys, dint know knew cards where coming out then. I was getting  solid 60 FPS in Rage this evening. Must stop looking at shiny's hah Crazy
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Honestly it would be foolish to upgrade gpus that give you what you need, instead save it and upgrade in 2 years to 570/580 equivalent of that time.

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