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@konceptjones
here is my situation...i'll try to stick to the important things
basically, years ago, maybe 5-6, i made the decision to get into PC gaming but i wasnt fully committed so I kinda skimmed on some parts to be cheap
this was my first build
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/XtbCdC
not being content with only being able to play most of the triple A games on medium, i opted to build another one maybe 3 years later
this one
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/TgDkm8
this one has worked GREAT.
Forewarning, my primary choice is to game on a TV. Mainly b/c my old pc monitor was small as shit, but i upgraded this past fall to a 24 inch Spectre that has been great as well.
So in addition to the two gaming pc's i had, i had an office pc. Nothing fancy, just a prebuilt Dell joint. That sucker only had 2gb of ram on it.
The other day, I made the decision to blow off my first gaming rig and just swap out the HDD out the Dell and put it into the old rig. I still had all my other parts minus a power supply, so i bought one yesterday, hooked everything back up, and got to rolling...so I thought
The main goal for hooking up the old rig was so that I could play more PC centric games on my monitor. Isometric top down...turn based kinda games (Xcom etc...), and to play my building simulation games (Cities:skylines, Planet Coaster, etc...)
Now, my current GPU the Radeon HD7870 meets the minimum for a game like Cities and the recommended for Planet Coaster. BTW, if you looked at the first builds specs, you can see I only have 4gb of ram. Cities got stuck on my like 5x last night mainly b/c i had mods and shit that had been removed and the game was looking for them while loading and took a long ass time to boot. I looked into this issue and apparently, even with a good to decent modern GPU, loading the assets has been known to take a while
I booted it up today...removed those old mods, turned the settings down to medium, and it eventually loaded 10 min later. Initially, there was some frame stuttering, but i assume this maybe had to do with the ram I have. I compared my current GPU to some more recent joints and surprisingly, it held its own but obv, there are some drawbacks b/c its an older card and in hindsight, I saw it was kinda leaving the market, and I still bought it for some reason...i should've opted to just spend the extra bucks and gotten something current for that time.
Anyway. Today, i had a relatively smooth experience. I looked at the task manager and w/o the game running, i had chrome open with a buncha tabs and that shit was almost eating all the 4gb of ram, so my question to you is, do you think i can just get away with getting maybe another 8gb of ram? that will give me 12gb total. The MB on it can hold up to 32gb. I'm not trying to spend any unnecessary money, but im willing to upgrade a couple of parts but not at the expense of getting an entirely new rig.
The main use will be ofc internet shit, and some slight logo work i do with programs like inkscape and gimp. But i want to play those games i mentioned and others like it when im not playing on my TV i have
btw, nothing is overclocked. not sure if that matters
thoughts??
