Graphics upgrade help please

whitefurr

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Hello everyone I'm fresh new here and this is my first post. I'm from the Philippines and finding a decent card to the city I'm in is very hard(Because their are no decent computer shops here that are up to date.)

I want to ask the community if what I'm planning to upgrade will have no compatible issues with my current motherboard. This is currently my CPU specs and not sure what brand my Powersupply is but it is 3rd GEN that has 700 Watts of power.
Summary:
Operating System
Windows 10 Home Single Language 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i7 3770 @ 3.40GHz 52 °C
Ivy Bridge 22nm Technology
RAM
8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 666MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
Intel Corporation DH77EB (CPU 1) 40 °C
Graphics
S191HQL (1366x768@60Hz)
4096MB ATI AMD Radeon HD 6570 (Sapphire/PCPartner) 41 °C
Storage
931GB Seagate ST31000524AS (SATA) 37 °C
Optical Drives
ASUS DRW-24D3ST
Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio


I would like to ask if upgrading to Palit GTX 1050 ti StormX 4gb or Zotac GTX 1050 ti 4gb mini will be compatible with my system unit. I'm also planning to upgrade my RAM to Kingston HyperX Fury 1600 4x2(8gb). I did some research with this RAM as it said it is plug and play without any need to reconfigurate the BIOS RAM usage. Sad since the retailer I bought this CPU put a password on my bios that he didn't tell me... x.x because he said that it is protocol to the original OS that comes along with the PC when I first bought it.
 
Solution
The card will work fine, you have a capable system. I would not upgrade the ram. Two reasons, one you have 8gb now already. For most uses and games, that's enough. Next, unless you have some specific reason to think you'll benefit from 1600 ram, it's an unnecessary cost. Keep in mind everything is moving to DDR4, any DDR3 ram you buy now is not going to be usable on your future systems.
The card will work fine, you have a capable system. I would not upgrade the ram. Two reasons, one you have 8gb now already. For most uses and games, that's enough. Next, unless you have some specific reason to think you'll benefit from 1600 ram, it's an unnecessary cost. Keep in mind everything is moving to DDR4, any DDR3 ram you buy now is not going to be usable on your future systems.
 
Solution


Thank you a lot and yes I'm planning to actually add more RAM because I am practicing to do a lot of photoshop to music editing. My photoshop keeps on giving me warning such as not enough RAM when I make the resolution too high.
 


I thought so too since I don't have a large monitor so reduced resoultion size should give me more than 50FPS on high to ultra high on high end games now. Thanks for the time.