Wait, 32 gigs of vram??! Because that's a lot of vram!
Sapphire - Radeon R7 350 2 GB Video Card
That's a PCIE 3.0 card. It uses GDDR5 which is good but that's far too little if you're doing anything except checking email, surfing phuks, and maybe youtube.
I was wondering if my video card was at fault. Any recommendations for a budget card that will play games that are a few years old with little difficulty?
you should have absolutely no less than 16 to 32 gig
You don't need that much unless you're gaming at really high res and maxing the fuck out of every game's video settings. For me a RX 580 with 8 gigs DDR5 has ben wayy more than enough
Why wouldn't you do that? If you're going to do it, do it right.
It's a couple of things.
Gigabyte doesn't isolate their north/south bridges and USB buses like they should.
Your RAM latency is high. It's a 10, you should be running 9 or better on a rig like this.
The biggest thing is your hard drive. 5400 RPM is horrid.
Your video card is 2 gig. If you're doing any gaming, you should have absolutely no less than 16 to 32 gig. Higher is better