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@ Psyoletic: 6gb would be a nice upgrade from 4gb, but you would need a triple channel kit and a supporting motherboard. Having 2 x 2gb on dual channel, then adding another 2gb stick will change it all into single channel... get another 2 x 2gb and make a full 8gb dual channel which will run smoother.
@ scottmc7000: thanks for the thumbs up on that post
. Get Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit... Ok, its expensive at around £150. I have it and never turned back. I will never use Home Premium again. Runs memory and gaming better if you ask me. Also, just use 8gb ram, 4 x 2gb sticks, 8gb is all you need for the next 2 years or so, unless you do a lot of photo/video editing/encoding where 16gb may help.
Also @ scottmc7000: Nvidia have had BIG problems with over heating in previous generation of cards. i.e. 8800gt single slot... i had one brand new and ran VERY HOT! I had to fork out an extra 40£ on top of what i paid for it at launch for an after market cooler which did work a treat. The GTX4 series ran very hot too... unlike the GTX5 series which in the 560ti upwards uses the vapour chamber cooling design which is amazing, the GTX4 series ran ridiculously hot, therefore, many people had to buy after market coolers, including a few friends of mine. One OC'd his card without a cooler and fried the PCB. End of that card. ATI cards run cool like my XFX HD5770 Single Slot and I idle at 39C on 40% fan speed and when i game/under load, i have set it to spin at 100% and it never goes above 55C. ATI cards, ok have some driver problems, but so does Nvidia, but not as much (as stated by @TheMourningStar) ATI. But tbh, ATI cards are faster, more OCable, run cooler and dont require as much CPU/RAM power to run, as they dont depend on the CPU/RAM as much as Nvidia cards do.
@ C64: B3 will be next gen and everybody knows that, but the 6870 run it all day on high settings @1680x1050. Their is no point running games at full hd unless you have a high send card installed i.e. gtx580 etc. I use a hd5770 on a 19" monitor @ 1440*900 and i run everything on the highest settings with an average fps of 80. Big monitors are best, but you need the hardware to crunch the numbers and give you the best visual experience and frame rates and that comes at a hefty price, for which, some cannot afford.
@ scottmc7000: thanks for the thumbs up on that post
. Get Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit... Ok, its expensive at around £150. I have it and never turned back. I will never use Home Premium again. Runs memory and gaming better if you ask me. Also, just use 8gb ram, 4 x 2gb sticks, 8gb is all you need for the next 2 years or so, unless you do a lot of photo/video editing/encoding where 16gb may help.Also @ scottmc7000: Nvidia have had BIG problems with over heating in previous generation of cards. i.e. 8800gt single slot... i had one brand new and ran VERY HOT! I had to fork out an extra 40£ on top of what i paid for it at launch for an after market cooler which did work a treat. The GTX4 series ran very hot too... unlike the GTX5 series which in the 560ti upwards uses the vapour chamber cooling design which is amazing, the GTX4 series ran ridiculously hot, therefore, many people had to buy after market coolers, including a few friends of mine. One OC'd his card without a cooler and fried the PCB. End of that card. ATI cards run cool like my XFX HD5770 Single Slot and I idle at 39C on 40% fan speed and when i game/under load, i have set it to spin at 100% and it never goes above 55C. ATI cards, ok have some driver problems, but so does Nvidia, but not as much (as stated by @TheMourningStar) ATI. But tbh, ATI cards are faster, more OCable, run cooler and dont require as much CPU/RAM power to run, as they dont depend on the CPU/RAM as much as Nvidia cards do.
@ C64: B3 will be next gen and everybody knows that, but the 6870 run it all day on high settings @1680x1050. Their is no point running games at full hd unless you have a high send card installed i.e. gtx580 etc. I use a hd5770 on a 19" monitor @ 1440*900 and i run everything on the highest settings with an average fps of 80. Big monitors are best, but you need the hardware to crunch the numbers and give you the best visual experience and frame rates and that comes at a hefty price, for which, some cannot afford.
