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drizzt14

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Hi! It's my first time to post here, hoping you fellas can help me out.

We just received a 2nd hand PC with the following specs:

Intel i5-3330 3.0Ghz
Asus H61M-E Mobo
Palit GF210
4GB 1333 RAM
160GB main drive
320GB secondary storage
Powerlogic ATX 600w PSU

I'm not sure what brand the RAM and the HDDs are. I was thinking of upgrading the following:

GPU - MSI N750 TI Twin Frozer OC 2GB GDDR5
RAM - Gskill RipjawsX 8GB Dual DDR3 2133 CL9 (F3-2133C9D-8GXL)

Are these good choices? I'm on a really tight budget, and I live in the Philippines.

Thanks in advance for the help!
 
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Buy whichever is cheaper.
Faster ram is accompanied by higher cas numbers, negating virtually all of the benefit of increased speed.
Synthetic ram benchmarks will be much better, but actual app performance or fps will differ only in the 1-3% range. Not noticeable.
1333will probably be the motherboard default. Faster ram is ram that is capable of being overclocked to 1600.
Probably a decent indicator of quality but not worth much for performance(using integrated graphics would be an exception)
On a tight budget, buy the cheapest compatible ram you can find.
Your funds can be more usefully spent elsewhere.
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Hey, welcome to the forum. Pretty good upgrade choices but their is one part I would Change and that would be the ram. Faster ram makes little difference and because you mentioned a tight budget I would suggest getting slower ram to save a little more money.
 
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If you are just gaming and not multitasking, then 4gb should be ok.
If you have a 32 bit os, you can't use more than 4gb anyway.
Intel processors are insensitive to ram speed. Think 2-3% from faster ram.

If you can, see if you can't find a ssd for the "C" drive. Samsung has a nice clone utility for their ssd's.
 
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How about 2 of the Gskill RipjawsX 4GB Single 1600 CL9 (F3-12800CL9S-4GBXL)? Is 8GB of RAM the minimum nowadays?
 
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Is 8GB of RAM the minimum nowadays?
 
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I'm running Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. I'll probably save the SSDs for next year's build. :)
 
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Buy whichever is cheaper.
Faster ram is accompanied by higher cas numbers, negating virtually all of the benefit of increased speed.
Synthetic ram benchmarks will be much better, but actual app performance or fps will differ only in the 1-3% range. Not noticeable.
1333will probably be the motherboard default. Faster ram is ram that is capable of being overclocked to 1600.
Probably a decent indicator of quality but not worth much for performance(using integrated graphics would be an exception)
On a tight budget, buy the cheapest compatible ram you can find.
Your funds can be more usefully spent elsewhere.
 
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Okay then. Thanks! What about the PSU? Is it good enough?
 
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If that's the case, I think I'll just keep the RAM as is. I was thinking that having 8GB of RAM would be better for the system, make the games and the system itself run smoother.
 
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