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Nice setup but overkill for 1080p 95% of the time.
At 1080p you will very very rarely use more then 2GB RAM.

Your good to go for 1440p/1600p gaming though.

I know it seems like overkill but I actually saw stuttering in Mass Effect and Mass Effect 3 with all the detail settings at maximum with my 2GB cards. It was something I'd never noticed on my 23-inch Samsung monitors so I deduced it to be the GTX 670s I was running in my boxes. I can also state that gaming just seems...smoother with the additional RAM; again it could just be my imagination but I don't think so.
 
I know it seems like overkill but I actually saw stuttering in Mass Effect and Mass Effect 3 with all the detail settings at maximum with my 2GB cards. It was something I'd never noticed on my 23-inch Samsung monitors so I deduced it to be the GTX 670s I was running in my boxes. I can also state that gaming just seems...smoother with the additional RAM; again it could just be my imagination but I don't think so.
2gb of VRAM is becoming more and more of a problem with new games in this day and age. Some games start to really get hungry even at 1080p but its still enough for many peoples needs.

Gaming beyond 1080p, its definitely a necessity to have more than 2gb vram, but that's still not a wide variety of people. Mass effect series im unsure of how much they use the vram, but mass effect 3 was a huge game so it would not surprise me.
 
Mass Effect 1 does not use much VRAM at all so I seriously doubt any stuttering was due to running out of memory. I game at 2560 and VERY few games use 2GB of VRAM even at the typical max settings. I keep a pretty close eye on VRAM usages via the G15 support on MSI Afterburner (it's always up and running) so I'm fairly certain about this.

I don't own ME3 so I can't say for that game, but from what I've heard it's mostly a console port so it would surprise me if it used more than 2GB also.
 
Mass Effect 1 does not use much VRAM at all so I seriously doubt any stuttering was due to running out of memory. I game at 2560 and VERY few games use 2GB of VRAM even at the typical max settings. .
Agreed.
I game at 1600p and I don't remember the last time I hit my VRAM limit, maybe Metro 2033? I tweaked one setting that made no visual difference and it was fine. Newer games use more but for 1440p/1600p and below 2GB is fine 95% of the time, VRAM is so overblown. It also depends on how you picky you are, mods etc, I am an old f*ck now so if I have to turn a setting down here or there its fine with me, the old me, not so much.
That being said its almost 2014 so I wouldn't advise someone purchasing now to game at 1440p/1600p with a 2GB GPU, atleast get a 3GB/4GB GPU for some specific reasons + future proofing.
 
Actually Mass Effect supports Ambient Occlusion which is a bit a resource hog so the extra VRAM comes in handy. But I agree that games nowadays are starting to push past needing 2GB of VRAM. I think before long we'll start seeing cards that sport 4GB of VRAM like it's nothing.
 
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