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# basically it means you have no reason
to upgrade unless you want to play crysis with all the bells and whistles turned on and pay at least £170 for the privilege.

Wait a while and ask me in 6 months what I think.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 2:49, archived)
# Tah, Pasa. I'm happy with the system on a whole (3Gig o' RAMS and a decent Intel Q6600 Quad core) just those three numbers, 256, seem to be staring at me.
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 2:52, archived)
# all you will do
unless you spend big, is to double your memory and slightly less than double your bus bandwidth to around 50GB/s which will give you little noticeable improvement. ( even if you get 256bit DDR3 )

I'd suggest spending £25 on a good Zalman active cooling replacement ( fan ) and overclocking the shit out of it and waiting for the next big thing so that today's big things are cheap on ebay.

edit:// I'll let you into a secret, the human eye can not work faster than 25 frames per second ( it's why PAL TV is 50hz ) so if you have a card that gives you 25+ frames p/s in your games with a display on 75hz, with shader model 4 and DX 10 then you have all the current bells an whistles. You have that so hang fire. I buy this shit because I can but it means nothing more than being able to post big numbers from 3d mark vantage on overclockers.net. It makes no difference to visual gameplay.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 2:58, archived)
# :) Cheers for all the help and tips, fluffy. I'll keep my fingers crossed for HDR on STALKER 2 :)
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 3:12, archived)