Nestea10 Posted July 18, 2013 Share Posted July 18, 2013 I have a Biostar Hi Fi A85W motherboard with 4 GB of RAM and a NVIDIA GTX 650. My processor is AMD A10-6700. Is 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleNeutrino Veteran Posted July 18, 2013 Veteran Share Posted July 18, 2013 best way to find out with any particular game is this website, it compares what is required and recommended to play a game with a scan it does of your computer. http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mirumir Subscriber¹ Posted July 18, 2013 Subscriber¹ Share Posted July 18, 2013 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. Raa and The Evil Overlord 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psionicinversion Posted July 18, 2013 Share Posted July 18, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
123456789A Posted July 18, 2013 Share Posted July 18, 2013 Up the ram to 8. You should be able to play most games, just not on high settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phouchg Posted July 18, 2013 Share Posted July 18, 2013 Sell GTX 650, get 650Ti Boost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre S. Veteran Posted July 18, 2013 Veteran Share Posted July 18, 2013 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 3 on the A10 6700's integrated GPU, so you should be more than fine. Vvo 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nestea10 Posted July 28, 2013 Author Share Posted July 28, 2013 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 ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patseguin Global Moderator Posted July 30, 2013 Global Moderator Share Posted July 30, 2013 I agree, add RAM if possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkos Reed Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phouchg Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre S. Veteran Posted July 31, 2013 Veteran Share Posted July 31, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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