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Apr 18, 2011

I'm looking for what would perform better and give best performance in-game? I'm wondering which OS would be best suited.As of now i am on XP and my system spec are

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Xfx hd 6870 1gb
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Will win 7 take more ram to run or will it give me better fps than xp ??

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