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Post Date: 2019-09-10
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    Posted: 10 Sep 2019 at 3:26am
OLDER pc 2012, CANT DROP LINKS to hardware.

the mother board can only handle ddr3, if I got faster speed (still ddr3) would this help a bit with todays gaming? if I do is 16g at a faster speed good enough or do I need 32g?

wife and daughter Play Fortnite STW, not very demanding of a game.
going from my PC to theirs, it hurts me to play on theirs....
they want borderlands3 now, so I am trying to get them ready....

their Rig, is a:
sata HD
1050 ti OC
DDR3 1600 (32gig)
mother board will handle 2667 OC (2666 / 2400)
I7 -2600k 3.4 -3.6 turbo

so should I upgrade for now, or is it a lost cause?
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Welcome to the forum Rockroller...

The 2012 rig doesn’t need faster speed RAM to play current titles better, it needs a current video card.    You know that rig won’t go on forever, but while it’s still useful, as long as your power supply is adequate to meet power requirements of a new GPU, my suggestion is invest in a new NVidia RTX 2060 Super or a RTX 2070 Super and just plan to use it in the next build when the time comes.    With 8 GB VRAM and tons more Cuda Cores you would definitely see dramatic improvement in gaming performance, and a much more fast & fun visual experience.    If your current PSU is 600 watts or better, you should have sufficient power for those two newer midrange video cards.    

I use my 2012 DS Hailstorm II rig daily, and recently upgraded to an EVGA RTX 2080 FTW III Ultra video card... and I still use my original Asus X79 Sabertooth mobo, Overclocked I7-3930K CPU and 16 GB DDR3 Corsair Dominator RAM and play games like he titles you mentioned on Steam at maxed settings in 1080P or 2K resolution.    The improvement in gaming from a simple GPU upgrade will seriously impress you, and give you more mileage on that 2012 gaming rig for the wife and daughter to enjoy using!   



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Seriously... HockeyBuck has the right of it... get a new GPU... easier to install and exponentially better upgrade.   
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Thanks guys, let me re direct the question a bit, I'm well aware a newer GPU will always make life of gaming better. Daughter mostly plays roblocks, (not getting her a 20 series for that, lol) the whole rig just seems a bit clunky even not gaming, maybe I'm just used to my newer pc, (idk)

So on a day to day use, would a better ram speed and a faster hd be noticed or probably not?
It still has a coffee pot harddrive in it,lol
One again thanks for the help.

Side note I plan on giving them my 1080ti, when i upgrade. And yes the power supply it over kill in it. It's a 1050w, used to run sli on it.
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In this particular example...probably not very noticeable...lol.
RAM speed just isn't all that important to performance...RAM quantity can be, but you already have more than you need with 32 GB.    

You always could add a SATA III SSD drive, but other than improved boot up speed and program launch speed, game play would not be any different at all.

I have a 2011 DS rig running with an RTX 1080 Ti and yes that would be a great upgrade for your wife and daughters gaming rig too. Gaming is mostly a GPU centric activity so the sooner you upgrade to a better video card, the better that rig will play with current titles.    
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Thanks. Guess I'll just have to get a card sooner then later.
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I'd suggest you go here:

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-1660-vs-Nvidia-GTX-1050-Ti/4038vs3649

and see if that helps you select. It would be my price/performance pick.
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Posts: 1608 		  Quote HockeyBuck Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 11 Sep 2019 at 2:00pm
He is saying I believe that he will shop for a new GPU for his newer system, and rotate his GTX 1080 Ti to the older rig for the wife and daughter to use.....
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Posts: 7331 		  Quote Cretae Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 12 Sep 2019 at 6:14am
Okay. Thought he was going the other way....
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