what I don't get is if I have g6b ram in this card and it cost me a hell of a lot of money, £460 to be precise, why can I only run games on what seems at best, medium settings!!!
Welcome to the world of gaming. Where the ultra-high-end has an astronomical price premium and only offers some odd 10% more performance than going one tier down the product stack. And where in the vast majority of games that extra 10% really doesn't get you much at all.
Here's my advice:
- Do NOT, I cannot stress this enough, SLI your current Titan. You are CPU bound in many games already.
- Sell your current Titan. It has value as a card that can also do things other than gaming, ie Workstation applications. As a GPU for gaming you will find you will sell it at a price that is too low fwiw.
- Buy a GTX 970, or a GTX 980 if you game at 1080p/1440p. Wait for a 980ti if you game at higher res, or AMD's new baby. If you still feel like you need more, place another card in SLI.
- Start thinking about upgrading motherboard/CPU and go straight to Skylake when it comes out.
- Never again buy a Titan. Ever. Just don't.
- For somewhat cost-effective gaming, 4K is actually a bit too much as of today. It CAN run, but it won't do so without the absolute top end of graphics cards, preferably in SLI. Your Titan does not qualify as such a card.
Some advice for the mind:
- Reconsider what Ultra means, and that gaming on PC is always a balancing trick between stable and fluid gameplay/FPS, and graphical fidelity. No matter how much power you cram into your PC case, there is ALWAYS a tradeoff one way or another. Cost is the first and most primary one. You want to mindlessly put everything on Ultra, that means you will be upgrading every single time a new high end card comes out. Consider whether you want that. Makes for a very costly hobby. Or be sensible and see what the actual difference is between Ultra ultra ultra, and going one step back to enjoy 'virtually Ultra' at playable FPS and much, much lower cost.
- Don't throw hardware at a software problem. That means: don't buy new cards just because one game runs like shit, if you are already at the high end. Because the solution lies in the game, not the GPU. Throwing hardware at software problems actually means you are paying for a developer's laziness or shitty work.