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GPU Buying Guide - (Read first post) in Desktops ·
Well, a massive power surge hit and basically took out half my rig. Luckily, two of the 2GB RAM sticks managed to pull through. I ended up scoring a motherboard and some 2x 4GB sticks from a buddy of mine, and he was kind enough to handle the whole installation for me.
I really wish I’d had a bit more breathing room in the budget back then to grab a much better graphics card! Now, my kid is constantly pestering me because his new Call of Duty sessions are lagging like crazy—it's like a constant negotiation over every cent spent!
Still, he's doing great in school and actually listens to me, so I can't complain too much about the extra stress. Thanks for getting back to me so quickly!
GPU Buying Guide - (Read first post) in Desktops ·
Hey everyone, I have a quick question for the group. I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve been a total tech novice since I was a kid, especially when it comes to navigating forums and digging up info online (so please bear with me if I’ve accidentally broken any community rules here!)

In my current setup—which I actually inherited from my son—I'm running an NVIDIA GeForce GT 730!! I was wondering if it would make any sense to pick up two more of those identical cards (roughly $433) to try and boost my performance, or if I'd be much better off just putting that same amount of money toward a single, different card instead?

To give you the full picture, I'm running a 500W Corsair power supply (ATX2 v2.3) with a 120mm fan, an AMD FX-4350 Quad at 4.2 GHz, an ASRock 970 Extreme4 motherboard, and 12GB of DDR3 Skill memory (running at 1333MHz) paired with that ATI HD 7700 series card

Sorry again for being such a newbie🙂