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Hi guys, I was wondering if its a good idea to optimize my pc a little bit. Until now I could manage to run most games on high with dx11. metro2033 can still run pretty smooth on high, on very high it all goes crap thought :), but its not my concern what I was wondering is if I should tweak some of the parts or make some upgrade to improve my performance without spending much money. In other words what would you do to tweak this pc if it was yours. I have around 50-150euro to spend atm.

Sapphire PCI-e Radeon HD6870 1GB 2xDVI/HDMI/2xDP
AMD Phenom II X4 955 3.2GHz 8MB AM3 Black Box
Antec Midi Tower Three Hundred No PSU
Antec Voeding Earthwatts 650W
Asus Crosshair III Formula AMD 790FX, SATA2 RAID
Chieftec Casefan AF-1225S 120mm, Sleeve Bearing
Fractal Design Casefan Silent Series 140mm
2xNexus Fan 120mm Silent Fan Blue LED
Noctua Processor Koeler NH-U9 AMD & Intel
OCZ 2x2GB DDR3 SDRAM PC8500 CL7.0 Gold Edition
Western Digital 640GB SATA300 32MB, WD6401AALS +(samsung750gb)
Zalman Speed Controller ZM-MFC1 PLUS (zilver)
Samsung LED Monitor XL2370 23", HDMI (using 1080p)

There are few things i had in mind but since Im no tech head I wanned to ask the people with better knowledge in this field. So far Ive been very happy with my pc, which I built thanks to your help here on forums.
So I was wondering about about few things, like ssd or getting more ram, maybe get another 6870 thought i do rather wait till it gets cheaper. So if you can, please give me your advice :)
 

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PS: Im playing dragon age 2 atm, thought it doesnt have so great gfx I cant max it out at all, is it possible that adding more ram and switching to 64bit would be a good Idea? Also a friend of mine told me using ssd as main would improve performance a lot. Or is it just a matter of gpu not being good enough? thought i bought it just as it came out some 6 month ago.
 
You're fine on RAM, but you may not be using all of it so you might want to switch to 64bit.

Upgrading to a SSD will only speed up loading times for anything on the SSD; it won't affect gameplay noticeably.

The games are limited by your GPU right now.
 

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i see, thats exactly the reply i was hoping for. thanks a lot :)