Is my System fast enough for new games?


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I have a Biostar Hi Fi A85W motherboard with 4 GB of RAM and a NVIDIA GTX 650. My processor is AMD A10-6700Is it wise to add more memory into the system? How much could i put and are there any problems with that?

 

I like playing Crysis but im not sure if my system is that fast enough? please help... i will put somehow 150$ for this i hope its enough.

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I'm not aware of any game which requires more than 4GB of RAM.

 

However, since you have 4GB in total and the operating system also uses RAM - it can make sense to increase it. I'd double it.

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itll play it although you wont be able to whack the settings upto max. maybe only low to mid range gfx settings. also id get 8GB ram, its dirt cheap may as well have it. 

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Your system will run Crysis and quite decently at that, so start by trying it and then you can determine whether it's worth spending money to improve the framerate and/or detail level. Heck some people run Crysis on the A10 6700's integrated GPU, so you should be more than fine.

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Thank you all for your input. Asik, thanks for your advice. I am playing the game now without any changes of the system, although its just middle settings. when i put it to high it feels kind of laggy.

 

i was just really worried because the fast changes in the tech world. I have no clue how good or bad a specific component is at the moment. I can remember 5 years ago it was much easier to get an idea of the performance ;)

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I'm not aware of any game which requires more than 4GB of RAM.

 

However, since you have 4GB in total and the operating system also uses RAM - it can make sense to increase it. I'd double it.

 

Just a quick clarification, a 32bit OS is indeed limited to 4GB of adressable memory, however a single 32 bit process can only use 2GB whether the OS is 32bit or not.

To benefit from more ram, both your OS and game must be 64Bit (which isn't always the case).

However they do like more RAM... on the GFX card: 2GB or more of fast GDDR on a bus wider than 128 bits will always result in a boost.

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Just a quick clarification, a 32bit OS is indeed limited to 4GB of adressable memory, however a single 32 bit process can only use 2GB whether the OS is 32bit or not.

 

Unless Large Address Aware is specified or patched afterwards, which raises address space to full 4 GB in 64-bit systems.

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It's very easy to find out if RAM is an issue - just look at memory usage in task manager while running the game. If you're using close to your maximum then adding RAM could improve performance. Realistically though, you're limited by pretty much everything in your computer, but you'd gain the most by replacing the video card. The GTX 650 simply isn't that fast, so it's not surprising it has some difficulty running games maxed out. Unfortunately for 150$ you're not going to get something drastically better; the HD 7790 or GTX 650 Ti Boost would be your best bets but neither is that much faster than a GTX 650.

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