i am currently upgrading my computer and looking for sugestions

Daniel Palmer

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i have the ASUS M4A87TD EVO mother board with a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 graphics card and AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 640 Processor (4 CPUs), ~3.0GHz and the ram is Adata Gaming Series DDR3-1600 G CL-9-9-9-24 Voltage 1.55 V - 1.75 V there x2gig ram sticks so 4gigs of ram total. for better ram i am looking at Brand: Ballistix Module Type: UDIMM Module Size: 8GB Kit (4GBx2) Warranty: Limited Lifetime Specs: DDR3 PC3-10600 • 7-7-7-24 • Unbuffered • NON-ECC • DDR3-1333 • 1.5V • 512Meg x 64 • Series: Ballistix Tactical part number: BLT2KIT4G3D1337DT1TX0

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ADATA Series XPG V1.0 Model AX3U1600W8G9-DB Type 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM Tech Spec Capacity 16GB (2 x 8GB) Speed DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Cas Latency 9 Timing 9-9-9-24
Voltage 1.5V Multi-channel Kit Dual Channel Kit Heat Spreader Yes

and as or a better graphics card i have no idea please help.
 

sr1030nx

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Any higher end graphics card will possibly be bottlenecked by your CPU, I suggest an AMD r7 260x / r9 270 or NVIDIA equivalent.

As for the ram its a tossup, one has less ram but limited lifetime warranty and the other has twice the ram.
I guess it comes down to whether you need 16Gb of ram.