GTS250 question

**Al Lunn** · 02-05-2012, 08:54 PM

My Rig is running an i7 860 @ 2.8gHz
MSI H55-P31 MB
12GB DDR3
and a GTS250
Windows 7 x64

Does anyone know if there is any way to allocate any of the 12GB ram to the GPU to increase the BF3 in game video performance , I normally run the video settings at low 1920 x1080 on a Samsung 24' monitor

Thanks in advance for your help and advice

**TheLancerMancer** · 02-05-2012, 09:46 PM

I did some quick Google searching, and it's not looking good. If I understand correctly the OS dynamically allocates RAM to the running applications, so BF3 and thereby your GPU are already using what they need.

I think the bottleneck here is your GPU. I'm running a GTX260 and it just recently crapped out on me as far as gaming is concerned. I'm looking to have a full rebuild completed within a month. Mad props to be playing as well as you have on that 250, but you should really consider upgrading your video card.

**Al Lunn** · 02-05-2012, 10:18 PM

Yeah, I know that's coming soon, need to figure out whats in the budget and what card to get , just added 8 GB ddr3 today was only running 4 and BIOS was reserving 2GB that wasn't so good :{(

**BeSiege82** · 02-12-2012, 03:03 AM

well, the 6XXX series price have come down some since the 7XXX series came out and who can complain about a nice 6XXX series

**Belander** · 02-12-2012, 02:26 PM

the MSI 6950 2g Twin Frezor 3 card ranks best overall out of it's gigabyte, XFX counterparts, and it's the middle of the road in cost wise. Hell if you can stretch the $450 ish you could Xfire 2 of them and be set for a very nice time in the gpu department. I was going to do that but I have changed to the 6970 2g XFX rev. 1.2 so I can put a full coverage water block on it and OC the living hell out of it