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Do you guys use any software to terminate background processes and optimize memory when playing games?? I remember I used some software back then called game booster but I looked for it today and the software I found looked sleazy. It was a software where you hit a big button that said boost and then it would shut down a lot of processes.
yeah game booster. it doesn't help too much, but if nothing else I feel like it helps with stability, by making sure itunes isn't checking for updates and shyt while I'm gaming
just turn off auto updates for all of your software.
whenever you remember to do so, update your shyt on your own.
it does a little more than that though. that was just an example
it works as advertised. it's just that freeing up some system memory, and a little cpu, won't do much to help most of these gpu dependent games
so I spend most of the day cranking up the settings on some games and 
I don't think I'm ever turning on my ps3 or Xbox.
I don't think I'm ever turning on my ps3 or Xbox.
memory is pretty cheap so i got 16GBs for like $60 its enough overkill to not have to worry about memory.
Th3G3ntleman
Superstar
Ne one ever got a System service exception 0x(many 0's)3B blue screen? Googled it and found a bunch of shyt but figured might as well ask here 
BlvdBrawler
Superstar
it's the same thing all the way up the line. look at the 660ti and the 670
you pay $80 more to pick up 3 fps
My 5830 looking reeeeeeeeeeeealllly 
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Brehs i'm going to upgrade my card today. 660 oc'd 2gb or 7950??
They are both pretty much the same in performance, but the 7950 comes with 2 free game vouchers that you can sell if you wish.
I'd go AMD on that one
a 7950 is pretty much a 660ti
the 7950 card comes with Bioshock Infinite and Crysis 3. if you don't want the code and go that route i'll give you $45 on Paypal for it cause i want both those games. i was gonna buy a code on eBay so let me know if you wanna go that route.
real talk, get a 1080p monitor
anyway, that offer nvidia has now is kinda weak too. fukk $150 for some wack ass free-2-play games
and yeah, the 7950 is closer to the 660ti in price and performance
Yea I'm getting the 7950 most likely. I'm keeping Bioshock Infinite though I wanted that.
I'll give you Crysis 3 for $25.
real talk, get a 1080p monitor
anyway, that offer nvidia has now is kinda weak too. fukk $150 for some wack ass free-2-play games
and yeah, the 7950 is closer to the 660ti in price and performance
I'm getting a 1080P TV later this year. Right now I'm playing in the bedroom on a 720P TV and I'd rather get a new card because I wouldn't be able to crank out 60fps on high-ultra settings @ 1080P right now with a 550TI anyway. Plus I can downsample to 720P from 1080P or 1440P(Via VGA). Also I hear there's a bios upgrade for the 7950 that ups the memory clock speed.
it's 2013 breh. throw that analog vga in the bushes