Q: I don't really understand alot about gaming hardware but i play games on my pc and mine is slow so i want to upgrade it and i wanted to buy an ati hd 4850 GPU but only if it speeds up my games without buying another GB of ram 1 Will an ATI 4850 make my PC ALOT faster without buying a GB of RAM? 2 Will just another GB of ram make my games FASTER? 3 How much faster will it go if i buy the 4850 AND a GB of Ram MY specs Intel Core 2 quad CPU 1GB DDR2 RAM ATI radeon X1650 series 450W PSU 320 GB HDD ASUS p5k motherboard Windows Xp pro SP2 i said i play games on my PC what do u mean i don't need GPU
A: 1. fast is relative. the card will be able to push more textures, etc. than the old card. Will it make the games run better, probably. How much is questionable, to what resolution you play at, and what games. 2. ram only makes the computer have the ability to handle more things at once. Adding more ram will be able to make your computer handle more things at once. So like another gb, you can play your game, and use a memory intensive program like photoshop at once. 3. again, it's relative to what you are doing it. It will definitely make your computer handle a game like crysis better. But how much faster, it's hard to say. There's no real good way of quantifying how much faster it will be.