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neitblaeck

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I am looking to upgrade my RAM and graphics card. With my build and power supply what would be best without breaking the bank or getting a bottleneck.
Essentio CM1730


Operating System
Windows 7 Home Premium, 64bit

Processor
AMD® AM3 Processor
Chipset
AMD 760G/SB710

Graphic
AMD® HD Integrated Graphics

Memory
4 GB
Dual Channel, DDR3 at 1333MHz
4 x DIMM

Expansion Slots
2 x PCI
1 x PCI-e x 1
1 x PCI-e x 16

Storage
Up to 4TB SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive (7200RPM)

Optical Drive

Tray-in Supermulti DVD RW 16X /24X


LAN
10/100/1000 Mbps

Audio
High Definition 8 Channel Audio

Front I/O Ports
1 x 6 -in-1 Card Reader
1 x Headphone
1 x Microphone
2 x USB 2.0

Back I/O Ports
6 x USB 2.0
1 x PS/2(Keyboard)
1 x DVI-D
1 x HDMI-Out
1 x VGA(D-Sub)-Out
1 x RJ45 LAN
1 x 8 Channel Audio
1 x S/PDIF out(Audio jack)

Card Reader
6 -in-1: SD/ SDHC/ MS/ MS Pro/ xD/ MMC

Power Supply
350 W Peak
 
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Alright then you only have 2 DIMMs not 4, DIMMs. Upgrading to 4GB of RAM would help, its best you buy a 2x2GB RAM kit and probably an AMD 6770. It will have some bottleneck, but at $40 you don't want to go cheaper.
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Well the information you listed for "Processor" is actually your chipset and motherboard information. We will need to know the actually CPU in order to know where you will hit a bottleneck.

As for RAM and GPU upgrades, the GPU is the thing needed upgraded the most. 4GB of RAM isn't that bad really. So how much do you have to spend and what CPU do you have and we can go from there. Likely a good candidate for you will be a used AMD Radeon HD 6770 for about $40 as it gives quite a bit of performance, its cheap, and its fairly good with power. There are a few others that are better to consider being the AMD R7 260, AMD R7 260x, and Nvidia GTX 750 Ti, but we will need to know your budget and CPU to know which is the best pick.
 
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the 750ti is a good pick if he has that much to spend and a CPU that won't bottleneck but he didn't list a CPU to know.

Also, he already has 4x1GB RAM, 2x2GB of RAM wouldn't be an upgrade or improvement at all.
 
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No, dual-channel = dual channel. Most motherboards only support two channels for RAM. Each gives a 64-bit connection to the CPU. Each channel can be split into two RAM slots each. So if he has 4 RAM sticks, demonstrated by him saying "4 x DIMM" and each are 1GB then he has 4GB of RAM installed in four RAM slots, in a dual-channel motherboard.
 
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How many sticks of ram do you have?
 
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@Dat_Robot: You should give this page a read so you will know better how dual-channel works in future.
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Everything-You-Need-to-Know-About-the-Dual-Triple-and-Quad-Channel-Memory-Architectures/133/6

Triple and quad channel motherboards are uncommon unless you are edging on server motherboards and server CPUs. This website does educational explanations of hardware and in this particular one they explain and show in pictures that there are typically two RAM slots for each channel, so four RAM sticks would still only be dual-channel mode. None of AMDs CPUs outside of possibly server CPUs support anything higher than dual-channel.
 
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Alright then you only have 2 DIMMs not 4, DIMMs. Upgrading to 4GB of RAM would help, its best you buy a 2x2GB RAM kit and probably an AMD 6770. It will have some bottleneck, but at $40 you don't want to go cheaper.
 
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