How to increase my graphics memory from 2gb to 3 or 4 gb?

Hritish

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How to increase my graphics memory from 2gb to 3 or 4 gb? i want to have 3gb or 4gb vram of my graphic card so i can play some games on maxed out settings...... pls help me my rig is :-
Proccesser- i5 4440 @ 3.1ghz
Ram- 10gb
GPU- His R9 270X 2GB GDDR 5 Ice X2
HD- 1TB
Windows 8.1 64bit
 
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Your video card has the VRAM soldered onto the board so you cannot just add more VRAM to a video card. You will need to buy a totally new video card. And do not fall for the low end GPU with lots of VRAM scheme (960 with 4GB for instance). Your cpu can handle a Nvidia 970 4GB, 980 4GB, 980ti 6GB or for AMD a 290X 8GB, 380 4GB, 390 8GB, 390x 8GB, and Fury 4GB (X, Pro, and Nano) without any real bottlenecking. It all depends on how much you can and want to spend for a video card. Your current card while not too bad is lower mid end and is not designed to run games at high resolution and high quality settings..


memory size does nothing if the gpu is too weak to use it


you need more gpu power
 

more gpu power? i have good psu i just need to increase vram pls help

 


yes more gpu power, as in a better video card



 


my gpu is bad?
 


well you are here asking to play games maxed out

more vram isnt going to magically do that


so you need a better video card...

 


You cant change the VRAM of a gpu. it is fixed. Plus performance doesn't depend much on VRAM. It depends more on the processing power of the GPU.

For example a gtx 960/R9 380 both have 2gb of VRAM but perform much better than the r9 270x 2gb due to their processing power, Shaders etc
So to play games at the highest settings you will have to buy a newer, better gpu.


 
Your video card has the VRAM soldered onto the board so you cannot just add more VRAM to a video card. You will need to buy a totally new video card. And do not fall for the low end GPU with lots of VRAM scheme (960 with 4GB for instance). Your cpu can handle a Nvidia 970 4GB, 980 4GB, 980ti 6GB or for AMD a 290X 8GB, 380 4GB, 390 8GB, 390x 8GB, and Fury 4GB (X, Pro, and Nano) without any real bottlenecking. It all depends on how much you can and want to spend for a video card. Your current card while not too bad is lower mid end and is not designed to run games at high resolution and high quality settings..
 
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