In need of advice

[ttjph]

That is some serious kit you have, and way beyond my price range.

You'd be surprised... just what is your budget?
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EDIT: Missed your post about the specs, and as it's a Dell and likely to be *awkward* in many respects:
http://www.cclonline.com/pc-range/HOME- ... 000020001/
That's using the onboard graphics of the CPU, but your 640 should be able to be fitted.

Have a look around, there are many good systems from reputable dealers/manufacturers available at good prices.

I agree with your assessment of the Dell system - upgrades are probably not the best way forward!

I had a look at Scan and PC Specialist (both have previously been recommended on this forum) but gptech's find above looks like a cheaper and just as good option (although I would spend the additional £15 for 8 GB instead of 4). Your GT 640 looks better than I'd expected - it should do fine once it's got a more capable CPU behind it, as long as you don't try for lots of anti-aliasing or downsampling. And if it doesn't, then a GTX 750 Ti should be an effective upgrade.

It even has a Windows 7 option (at extra cost), but to be honest I'm generally finding Windows 10 works OK for me...

[gptech]

although I would spend the additional £15 for 8 GB instead of 4

Definitely; it makes very little, if any, sense to opt for an operating system that can use more than 4GB of RAM but hold it back for the sake of 15 quid.

[ferdy]

Thanks to everyone for the advice; certainly there are some good options about.

[GatwickSpotting]

Ta Peter, that should clear up any misconceptions we've managed to build in whilst trying to explain in *luddite* terms whether moving to a 64 bit OS or adding RAM brings the bigger benefit--and that 8GB of RAM is of no use to TS directly but that a 64 bit OS would certainly benefit from it.

And together I think we did a mighty fine job!

[gptech]

...and tonight, we can truly say....together we're invincible....

(I'll let you Muse over that one )

[smarty2]

OP, I am sorry for being off topic here but.... as soon as I saw Gatwicks first post and knowing there would be a "debate" on went the 3d glasses out came the bag of popcorn and my special chair! I do enjoy them although 95% goes over my head, cheers fella's, very entertaining as usual.

[john13]

Hi folks,

Like Martin/smarty2, I've followed this thread with interest. I've just ( an hour or so ago...) put some more RAM into my PC and can confirm that it makes a difference on my Win7 64bit OS. Looking at the memory usage, there's now loads more 'cache' space. I've not yet tried TS, nor would I expect any difference there but other stuff certainly feels a bit quicker.

Cheers - and thanks for the expert inputs.

John