More memory perhaps? cod ghosts

spellcaster

spellcaster

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Hello,
I have a gigabyte board with a Intel Core2 Duo E8400 @ 3.00GHz
I have 2 strips of 2 gig ram OCZ PC2 6400 OCZ2G8004
Freezer Pro cpu cooler
Sapphire Radeon HD7850 1gb GDDR5
sata 2 1tb hdd
Corsair 650w psu

COD plays ok with everything cranked up but the loading screens stagger abit.

I thought maybe get 2 more strips of the above ram giving myself 8gig.

I know my machine is probably outdated but was wondering if I should upgrade the memory or peraphs someone could recommend a budget upgrade something that would bring my rig upto date abit without breaking the bank. Although my machine runs fine I would like to know that if I upgraded it abit I would be getting far superior performance over my old setup.

Any advice most welcome.;)
 
If you uninstalled ghosts it would also do the trick ;)

But if you watch TotalBiscuits video of WTF is: Cod Ghosts then he explains that even with 2 titans he got pretty poor performance even though it isnt a good looking game. Ghosts seems to have issues. I guess some more memory would help, your gpu should be fine so ocing the cpu and getting some more ram is probably the answer

or even get a ssd for ghosts and the os to go on? That should increase load times!
 
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In theory RAM is RAM.

As long as the timings, speeds and voltages match it should work.

Personally though depending on how much you are looking to spend on the RAM I would consider saving up and upgrading the CPU, MB and RAM all at once. Parts of you system are rather old.
 
I actually read an article on this that both battlefield and call of duty-ghosts require 6 gb of RAM to play however the article also said that the game should not actually require 6 gb at all and SHOULD work with 4gb.
 
well I guess £250 or under I know its not a lot but saving up for a ps4 too :)

Yes the cod ghosts does seem to have lots of issues but it is playing nicely on my machine except for load times
 
If you could stretch to 300 this would get you a new, solid cpu, a solid motherboard (which is actually the same as I own, although bear in mind that it isn't very overclocking friendly which is a bit of a pain for me) and it runs fine with my fx 8320. Also in here is a good ssd, which will fit your os on and a few games; plus some fresh memory, I would get rid of the old stuff personally.

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1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £89.99
1 x ASRock 970 Extreme4 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £79.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £79.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G1600HC9DC01) £59.99
Total : £309.96 (includes shipping : FREE).



Or, if you aren't bothered about having fast load times and a snappier system you could ditch the ssd and that would bring it under budget, allowing you to get a better mobo

edit: just realised that the last sentance makes me sound like a bit of a ****. I hope that you understood what I was trying to convey :D
 
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