Upgrade the Vid card or Memory

matrimforever

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Hi,
I have a mobo Gigabyte M61P-S3 with 4 gigs (4 x 1gb) of dual channel ram in it. I can purchase 2 gb x2 more, but have to remove 2 of the 1 gig for a total of 6 gb(2 total more). My vid card is the Nvidia geforce 250 gts 512 mb. Which would you upgrade first?

-Windows 7 64bit
 

matrimforever

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Here are specs for the card I have:
NVIDIA

GPU
GeForce GTS 250

Core Clock
738MHz

Shader Clock
1782MHz

CUDA Cores
128

Memory

Effective Memory Clock
2200MHz

Memory Size
512MB

Memory Interface
256-bit

Memory Type
DDR3

And here is a card I may upgrade to:

Brand
ECS

Model
NGTS450-1GPL-F

Interface

Interface
PCI Express 2.0 x16

Chipset

Chipset Manufacturer
NVIDIA

GPU
GeForce GTS 450 (Fermi)

Core Clock
783MHz

Shader Clock
1566MHz

CUDA Cores
192

Memory

Effective Memory Clock
3600MHz

Memory Size
1GB

Memory Interface
128-bit

Memory Type
GDDR5


Would I notice much performance increase?