Quote Originally Posted by Ashley View Post
So some of you know I 10 box and have been for almost 2 years and today I thought it was time to upgrade my machine a little so I went balls deep.

My old specs:
i7-2600k @ stock settings
12GB RAM (3x4GB)
128GB SSD
2GB ATI 6970

My new specs:
i7-2600k @ stock settings
32GB RAM (4x8GB)
128GB SSD
6GB ATI 7970
With DX9, a 5-box uses close to 1GB of video ram.
Chance are a 10-box uses close to 2GB of video ram, with DX9.

With DX11, that same 5-box uses close to 1.5GB of video ram.
I'll assume the 10-box uses close to 3GB of video ram with DX11.

Your old video card was close to the limit, for DX9.
Meaning it quite possibly was a bottleneck.
Your new video card, with 6GB of video ram, won't be a bottleneck in terms of available memory.
Depending on your settings, it could still push the card in rending spell effects, shadows, water reflections, weather effects etc...
But you can control all of these, either via Video Settings or with /slash commands and/or the config.wtf file.

I don't think Ram was a limiting factor, previously.
However a ram drive is going to blow away the access time on your SSD.
Which should reduce the stuttering, when entering Field of Strife or any location where a large number of textures are loaded at once.
There was a thread on RamDrives fairly recently: http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/4...%28SDW-Bait%29
Naturally 32GB of Ram is going to be better than 12GB for using a Ram Drive.