I have a 7 year old computer:
EVGA nForce 680i Motherboard (limit of 8GB DDR2 ram)
BFG GeForce 8800GTX 768MB GDDR3 Video Card
Silverstone 750W power supply
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66GHz processor
Windows 8.1 32-bit (limit of 4GB ram)
I had 4 x 1GB sticks of DDR2 800 ram
1 set of those sticks just died (Windows wouldn't boot. Removing them it boots fine). I figured it's time to upgrade anyway. Unfortunately a year or two ago I chose 32-bit Windows. As far as I can tell, there is no discount available for me to purchase 64-bit even though I already have 8.1 32-bit.
I was thinking of purchasing 2 x 4GB 800 DDR2 ram to set myself up for the future. Does this make sense? I am a gamer amongst other things, but it doesn't necessarily have to be top-end.
Should I be upgrading other components in addition to ram? Should I get a new motherboard so I can go for DDR3 or DDR4? New CPU? New GPU? What is most cost-effective?
Any advice is appreciated.
EVGA nForce 680i Motherboard (limit of 8GB DDR2 ram)
BFG GeForce 8800GTX 768MB GDDR3 Video Card
Silverstone 750W power supply
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66GHz processor
Windows 8.1 32-bit (limit of 4GB ram)
I had 4 x 1GB sticks of DDR2 800 ram
1 set of those sticks just died (Windows wouldn't boot. Removing them it boots fine). I figured it's time to upgrade anyway. Unfortunately a year or two ago I chose 32-bit Windows. As far as I can tell, there is no discount available for me to purchase 64-bit even though I already have 8.1 32-bit.
I was thinking of purchasing 2 x 4GB 800 DDR2 ram to set myself up for the future. Does this make sense? I am a gamer amongst other things, but it doesn't necessarily have to be top-end.
Should I be upgrading other components in addition to ram? Should I get a new motherboard so I can go for DDR3 or DDR4? New CPU? New GPU? What is most cost-effective?
Any advice is appreciated.
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