Recent content by sethompson

I agree with the previous poster, adding an SSD will cause most everything to be faster when dealing with reading and writing to the hard drive. 8 GB of RAM is more than sufficient unless you are doing heavy video editing. If the laptop supports it, try to use your old mechanical hard drive as...

The digits that are stored in each are the same, but the use of each type of memory is different. RAM, or volatile memory (as the previous poster stated), is used to temporarily store data that is being used while the machine is powered on. Once you shut off the machine, however, the volatile...

You will gain a larger performance boost in games from buying a faster graphics card. Just make sure that the power that your power supply outputs is sufficient to power said graphics card.

That would probably be your best bet. It won't give the performance of two 980s, but it would definitely improve performance substantially for games that support SLI. You will also save money by buying another 780ti than buying two brand new cards. Hope everything goes well.

The problem with dual gpu graphics cards is that you can't really turn off the crossfire/sli as you could with two separate graphics cards in the system. Not all games support those configurations as well as a single graphics card. Also, depending on your processor, having two graphics cards...

What size of motherboard will your case support?