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buchno:

--- Quote from: Pentium100 on January 26, 2013, 05:05:09 AM ---I wouldn't. That cooler blows a lot of hot air back in the case, so the fans that blow the air from the case have to be more powerful. The reference cooler is better as it blows most of the heat out of the case instead of towards the hard drives. Even with a single video card, a cooler system is preferable to a hotter one, especially is ambient temperatures can be high or the computer is mounted in a rack.

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You're fully correct, if the case itself doesn't have proper cooling, it would be better to blow the air out instead. I assumed (which I shouldn't) Gogeta had enough fans.

GoGeTa006:

--- Quote from: Tiffanys on January 26, 2013, 05:06:12 AM ---The GB of ram on a video card is called vRAM, it basically is used for video stuff before having to use your actual RAM, which is better for loading large textures and such. Anything more than 1GB is fine I think. Never buy overclocked video cards though, those things die faster. They have enough problems as is... I'm pretty leery about overclocking a GPU.

As for the RAM what you're looking at is basically that your 2x8 are probably the really tall sticks, right? Will that fit in your case? If you have a big radiator on your CPU cooler, or depending where your RAM is situated with your video card on your motherboard, they may not fit. In which case, you'd want the low profile RAM. That's the only real thing you need to look out for when choosing between those two. Make sure whatever RAM you're going for is compatible with your motherboard though.

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the RAM will fit, its a mid-tower case and its pretty spacious on the inside, what I was wondering if since most motherboards (if not all?) are now dual channel and stuff, is there any difference in performance between 2x8 and 4x4?
as mentioned I DONT PLAN ON UPGRADING RAM, so either configuration is fine (i might go for the cheaper one. . .) but if theres a small performance gap I'd rather go with the faster one.


And thank you, I'll stick to the 2 GB vRAM then. . . and I did check that MSI it was a candidate, but then my current eVGA card died on me (GTX 9800+) and the customer service was so nice and I found out i had a lifetime warranty :P and so I fell for eVGA. . .and got my card replaced for free ;D

I've had issues with MSI cards in the past and the customer service wasnt . . .good

and I will msot likely use the stock CPU cooler, unless I find a cheap aftermarket one. . . I dont really like watercooling since I'm not that much of an overclocker, at the most I might overclock it 10% or so. . .but nothing that would require liquid cooling (my current Q6600 is running pretty good OC from 2.4 to 3.0)

Tiffanys:
You can get a ton of great air coolers for pretty cheap, like $20-50.

And yeah, eVGA is the best brand for GPU's... such amazing warranties.

kitamesume:
2x8GB @ 1600mhz CL9 is the ram kit you should get as an optimum choice, not because of having spare slots available, its because theres less sticks to worry about and theres less dimms for the controllers to work with(thats a good thing).
but if a 4x4GB @ 1600mhz CL9 has a dramatically less price then go with it.

a GTX660Ti wouldn't be able to tank heavy settings at high resolutions to fully saturate 3GB of VRam before you see your FPS drop like a rock, 2GB is plenty.
the difference in clock speed as to performance is linear but only applies to actual FLOPs performance, gaming performance always scales at a curve with diminishing returns when you hit over 60FPS.

the stock cooler will perform fine without changing it, the downward exhaust isn't an issue but rather helps cool the nearby mosfets even(those can reach over 100c).

buchno:

--- Quote from: kitamesume on January 26, 2013, 07:18:02 AM ---2x8GB @ 1600mhz CL9 is the ram kit you should get as an optimum choice, not because of having spare slots available, its because theres less sticks to worry about and theres less dimms for the controllers to work with(thats a good thing).
but if a 4x4GB @ 1600mhz CL9 has a dramatically less price then go with it.

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Don't forget to check that the memory actually runs at 1600MHz when you install it. The default setting often seems to be at 1333MHz, but it's easy to change the multiplier in the BIOS.

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