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What matters more, RAM or Video Card?

854 views · started by erickrealz ·
#1
What matters more, RAM or Video Card?
I'm playing AC: Brotherhood on my PC, and frankly I'm not happy with the way it's performing. I'm playing it with 20-30 fps, and I'm using Nvidia GeForce 9400 GT with 2.5 gigs of memory, and with 4 Gigs of ram. How do I push my fps to 60?
#2
Upgrade your video card, the 9400gt is aging quickly. And try to push your ram to 4GB. You can get a 2GB stick for fairly cheap.
#3
Both are important. If you throw too good of a video card in without the ram you don't get any thing, if you have shit card but lots of ram you aren't going to do any better.
I have a 9700 GT it handles things ok.
Listen to Thomas. Card-wise I suggest GeForce GTX 470
#4
Which is better: GTX or GTS?
#5
Im in love with the ATI Radeon series, never have problems with those cards besides price.
A little tip that i use to get my games to run 'mint' is i close explorer.exe. It's not like it needs to be running during a game.
Open it back up my Windows+R Explorer.exe or open up Task Manager and click File' NewTask' Explorer.exe.
#6
erickrealz wrote:
Which is better: GTX or GTS?


GTS usually designates with an "m" at the end from what I've seen and that means its for laptops.
There is not a GTS 470.
I'd go with this : GeForce GTX 470
Plus if you have the right mobo, you can go back in later and put in a second one.