Need advice for upgrade

Oprych

Oprych

Oprych

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Hi guys,,
I'm trying to see what could be the bottleneck for high end gaming on my PC. Its either the RAM or the graphics card I think. Here's my current hardware:

Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5 Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard
Intel Core i7 930 2.80GHz (Bloomfield) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail
EVGA GeForce GTX 460 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Patriot Viper 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 12800C8 1600MHz Low Latency Triple Channel (PVT36G1600LLK)

Can anyone make any suggestions for compatible RAM or a new graphics card or even SLI? would sli be better than a new card?

Any help is appreciated!
 
vga for me

640, 650 and the 660 wouldn't break the bank and would be quicker than 2 of the cards you have, well the 660 would anyway and will work im guessing with your current psu which might not be the case for 2 in sli mode

your cpu is plenty fast enough and so is your ram for now and the amount you have.

depending on what you want to spend. 640 £80 650 £100 odd and the 660 for just under £200, with the last one being a 2gb card and way ahead of the one you already have,

or

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-289-AS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=411

will be plenty fast enough for most games but amd and not nvidia
 
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if you can still find the card, which most dont now stock as its too old, therefore a new one would be your choice, i'd add £50 to it and go for the ati one i linked above as the same spec nvidia one is out of your price range
 
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