A few upgrade, enough power?

hayze

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Hey how's it going everyone. Well it's that time of the season again for cheap parts. I'm wanting to be able to run Battlefield 4 smoothly on highest settings. I might also be getting call of duty ghost.

My setup
PSU - Corsair 750TX
Mobo - ASUS Sabertooth X58
HDD - 500gb & 2tb
SSD - 120gb
sound card - Sound Blaster X-fi Titanium
CPU - i7 950 3.06ghz
GPU - 4870 1gb
RAM - Corsair 6gb trip chan

What I'm wanting to do is upgrade my GPU, I'm thinking about getting a 280x, but I'm also debating to get a 770, but I'm leaning more towards the 280x due to mantle and how (what I have been reading) it runs well with battlefield 4. My question is would my 750w power supply be enough? I used a couple power consumption tools, one said I need about 600-700w, the other says I needed up too 800w.

Also I feel like I should upgrade my ram kind of a bummer they don't do deals on 6gb and 12gb of ram, but I'm thinking of getting 12gb any suggest on what I should get?
 
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Your rig is fine with the Corsair you have, plenty of overhead even for the 280X. Also you don't really need the extra RAM unless you are heavily into video editing, etc., you are fine with 6GB. Some people use 8GB, but that is about the normal limit.

EonW

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Your rig is fine with the Corsair you have, plenty of overhead even for the 280X. Also you don't really need the extra RAM unless you are heavily into video editing, etc., you are fine with 6GB. Some people use 8GB, but that is about the normal limit.
 
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EonW

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Yes, for gaming it is suprising how little RAM is really needed. I'm not much of a gamer, and I've had both Nvidia and AMD cards, and personally prefer the AMD, but I do understand that at this level, the 770 is slightly better overall.