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post #1 of 14
11/9/12 at 1:55pm
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Hi,

I recently bought a Gigabyte 660 GTX TI but it's not really running smooth. Should I upgrade the RAM to 6 or 8 Go or just buy a new board & CPU ?

Thanks

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post #2 of 14
11/9/12 at 1:57pm
Is that your build in your signature?
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post #3 of 14
11/9/12 at 1:57pm
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Is that your build in your signature?

Yeah
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Hard DriveOptical DriveOSMonitor
Intel 520 120Gbs & Seagate 320 Gb 3.0Gb/s Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-111D Windows 7 Pro x64 Samsung 2233rz 
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post #4 of 14
11/9/12 at 2:01pm
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Yeah

It's quite a bad build, so it's probably the reason it's not running great.
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post #5 of 14
11/9/12 at 2:02pm
Definitely upgrade MOBO+CPU+RAM... maybe SSD as well.. Just so you know even if you dont upgrade to SSD smile.gif Intel SRT comes included with Z77 & Z68 boards.. thumb.gif
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post #6 of 14
11/9/12 at 2:04pm
Drumroll

Platform upgrade!

Either that or find a cheap 775 quad, but even for the used price of a q9450 or something you might as well just upgrade to new stuff.
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post #7 of 14
11/9/12 at 2:04pm
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Definitely upgrade MOBO+CPU+RAM... maybe SSD as well.. Just so you know even if you dont upgrade to SSD smile.gif Intel SRT comes included with Z77 & Z68 boards.. thumb.gif

Just get a new god-damn system altogether.
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post #8 of 14
11/11/12 at 12:56pm
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I'm not sure if I want a new system. Would 6 Gb or 8Gb helps for more frames in BF3?
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post #9 of 14
11/11/12 at 1:46pm
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Drumroll
Platform upgrade!
Either that or find a cheap 775 quad, but even for the used price of a q9450 or something you might as well just upgrade to new stuff.
This, and overclock it.
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post #10 of 14
11/11/12 at 1:49pm
The 660ti is more than fine for BF3. The rest of the build is kinda outdated and probably bottlenecking your GPU though.

EDIT: 2GB of more RAM is going to give you nothing in Battlefield
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