Is this desktop computer pretty powerful graphically? - Page 2

Well. I think you're trying to disagree where no disagreement exists. "a large amount of ram can be a huge boost" That certainly includes skyrim, as I said.

As for the price per gigabyte argument I can only speak for myself and say price per gigabyte for ssds does not concern me. I currently run with 3x256gb drives in raid0 and that's plenty for as many games/applications as I'd care to have.

I run 6gb of ram largely because when I built this pc the fastest processor (gulftown) had a relatively weak imc and generally couldn't hit high clocks (~5ghz+) while pushing >6gb of ram.

I will be upgrading for haswell or possibly waiting until broadwell but either way I doubt I'll grab more than 16gb.

It looks fine to me although I'm not sure if it can run all the new games on high settings. But I think you will be able to play most of the games on low/medium.

Interesting read in this thread but for me , with 8 gigs of ram will adding another 8 and all this pre-fetching give me a FPS boost?

FPS boost? Not normally. Just in the cases of when the thing you want to render doesn't fit in to 8gb of ram, but is pre-loaded in 16gb. Then the judder of reading in new assts from the HDD is reduced. Ram doesn't render anything, it's a storage space.

You will load games quicker, and the desktop will feel smoother when you come out of the game as a bunch of crap isn't being read back in from swap. Games that you regularly play will start to load a whole lot quicker as Windows learns what you like. 16gb gives you a better moment to moment experience, not higher frame rates.

I didn't think it would. Load times don't bother me like they do others. I have a SSD already and a 1TB drive attached for my racing sims and replays. Well I'll stick with the 8 gigs I have now. I do my day-to-day stuff, like reading and replying to this , on my iMac. My PC is strictly for playing games. I wouldn't dare do anything else on it. Infact, whenever possible, if there's content I need to purchase for a game I'll buy it on the iMac first and then use the key/code/link whatever, on the PC after the transaction is complete.