MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4Gb

[igorm75]

I want buy MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4Gb Graphic card, in computer i have 8Gb Kingoston memory and motherbord Asus MAXIMUS VII RANGER.
My question, Is that enough system memory for that card and new games, for next 2-4 years or I must have 16Gb system memory on motherboard?
Thank you.

 

[NightAntilli]

9GB is a weird number... If you mean 8 GB, it's fine for now. 16GB won't be needed as of now. In 4 years it might be though.

 

[sammy sung]

Enough system memory or video memory? Either way you've found the sweet spots. You really don't/won't need anymore than 5-6GB of system memory for a tower designed for gaming. 4GB gets by still as long as it's DDR3, but things are as always becoming more and more demanding.

VRAM you're as I said, fine. 3GB and higher is where it's at, officially. You can still play fine with 2GB cards, assuming they're powerful enough. But what with so many games these days using more and more video memory, your average gpu has to up it's game. More or less why the new nvidia releases are at standard, a 4GB.

 

[Adam Schneider]

How do you have 9gb of RAM? Also I always recommend 16gb if you can do it, cause not too long a go I built a computer with 8gb of RAM and everyone said it was overkill, now it is standard. But that being said 8gb of RAM is exactly what you will need for Games.

 

[igorm75]

I made a mistake in typing, 8Gb system memory, and my question is that enough for Geforce 970 Graphic card and Games for next few years?

 

[NightAntilli]

Yes it is enough.

 

[Adam Schneider]

I made a mistake in typing, 8Gb system memory, and my question is that enough for Geforce 970 Graphic card and Games for next few years?

Here pretty soon 16gb is gonna be the standard, So I would just go ahead and get the 16gb. That being said 8GB will work fine for 2 years maybe but then you will start noticing systems coming with 16gb Stock, and that is already happening more and more everyday now.

 

[sammy sung]

8GB system memory is enough for today's games as well as being a right spot for light graphic designing. Like above suggested, if you can afford 12 or 16GB, do so. System memory is more or less the one thing you actually can kind of justify as future proof