Do I need a 4GB GPU, using a 1600x900 monitor?

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As the title says, do will my 16:9 monitor bottleneck my GPU? Will I be getting my moneys worth with a 4GB card? The card in question is the Gigabyte GTX 960.

NOTE: I'm under the impression the 4GB 960 will improve my gaming experience, as I got rid of my 2GB Radeon 7850 because mI couldn't run games on LOW.

My other specs:
CPU: i5 3570k @3.4GHz
PSU: Corsair CX500 (Bronze)
RAM: Ballistix Sport 2 X 4GB DDR3
HDD: 7200RPM 1TB Seagate
Monitor: 1600x900 BenQ 21.5" Monitor


 
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In that price rage the GTX960 for Nvidia and the 380X for AMD are about the best you can hope to find. Anyone else have any ideas?
It will get you around 50% more performance IIRC. You could just get the 2GB version and save a few bucks as 4GB is mostly usefully at higher resolutions where the 960's GPU is too weak to be used anyways. If you can wait a few months Nvidia and AMD are releasing a totally new GPU lineup that will be a big improvement over current gpus.
 

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I'm wanting to upgrade from a 2GB card, because my build became uncapable of running games. I would get these massive frame drops every 3 seconds, and so I need to upgrade
 


Have you tried lowing the image settings of the games that run poorly? Also have you tried monitoring your Vram, Gpu load, System Ram, and cpu load in the background while you played games that had the frame drop issue? If you get a 960 4GB you definitely would not have to worry about running out of VRAM as the gpu would be the limiting factor. The 960 is about the lowest end gaming gpu even worth buying IMO..
 

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What would you suggest in the same price range £160-£180 ? 230$-260$