Hey guys,
I built my first rig a few years back when the GTX 580 was the best card on the market. And ever year or so since then I have added another 580, which has of course cost less with each purchase. I thought this was the best strategy to get the most out of my hardware for the money.
I now have 3 GTX 580 and a 1440p monitor. The cards are watercooled and overclocked, and the average FPS in challenging games like BF4 is 50-60, but the minimum frame rate can be as low as 5. so the game is really unplayable at that res.
Basically the cards are fast enough, but as soon as that frame buffer fills up the game grinds to a halt. I know this is the reason because I have monitored FB usage and compared it with frame rates.
This third card has now put a major downer on my strategy, which up until now has worked fine. I had to upgrade my PSU, buy a waterblock and fit the 3rd card into my loop and it has achieved very little :(
Anyways after a few years building I was confident I knew what I was doing but turns out I'm still a bit of a noob. I guess there is always more to learn.
I now want to get back ontop of the performance pile for as little as possible. I read somewhere that if you have crazy fast memory that it can be used by the GPU to render frames with minimal lag. This sounds really unlikely but I can upgrade my memory for way less money and hassle than my GPUs.
Thanks in advance, your thoughts are appreciated
z
current specs:
2600k (4.5GHz)
8GB Corsair Dominator GT 1866Mhz
TLDR: My 3x 1.5GB GTX 580s don't have enough VRAM for new games to play at 1440p.
Can super fast memory compensate for a small amount of GPU VRAM. Or is money better spent on a new card?