What is better... Upgrading from an AMD Phenon II 965 BE to FX-6300 or from Hard Disk to SSD?

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danternativo

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I'm planning to upgrade my PC on November but I have a limited budged of $250 (max). I want to go from 4Gb of RAM to 8Gb (or 16GB if I can), but I’m not sure of what components upgrade will bring me more benefits in speed: a better CPU or a SSD. I'm not a gamer, I record/edit audio, write documents, open a lot of browser tabs and occacionaly edit videos. My current componets are:
MB: Asus M5A88-M. CPU: AMD Phenon II 965 BE. RAM: Corsair XMS 4Gb ddr3 1333Mhz. HD: Western Digital Green 500Gb SATAIII. Power Supply: Corsair CX500. Graphics: HIS HD 5770 IceQ 5 1GB. OS: Windows 7 Pro/ Opensuce 12.3/Ubuntu Studio 12.10
 
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Go with the SSD, the 965 is a strong CPU and OCs well, also 8GB will provide a good boost, 16GB not so much unless you are heavily multitasking
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Um both? lol

With ur setup a ssd will help best as 4gb is enough for most games and the quad core is more than enough for a 5770. I used a 6770 in crossfire and in single card and at one point was using 4gb ram and my cpu at stock and played games just fine.

For being a non gamer the ssd is the obvious choice, just make sure u get a big one for whatever programs u use and for editing etc more ram will help.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233403&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL080113&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL080113-_-EMC-080113-Index-_-SSD-_-20233403-L06A - $180 little higher but 256gb and a very good ssd
 
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I'm not a gamer, I record/edit audio, write documents, open a lot of browser tabs and occacionaly edit videos
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With an SSD your OS will boot quick and applications will start up faster. That is what you will likely experience based on your usage above.

With an FX-6300 your Word documents will process quicker (large documents). With many browser windows open and flash content and HTML5 content going on all over... the FX-6300 will handle it all with ease (as I'm sure you've encountered that bottleneck with the 965BE hence why you're thinking of upgrading and mentioned it). For editing video the FX-6300 will be slightly faster. That is what you will likely experience based on your usage above.

Either upgrade would be of great benefit to you. You can't go wrong either way tbh.
 
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The Phenom II 965 is still a solid performer that can last you a little while longer. It can at least last you until AMD puts out their next generation of processors later this year/early next.

An SSD is a solid investment, and can carry over with any upgrade you will make. I think you'll notice an increase in productivity, especially since you have a Green variant of a hard drive. It seriously is nice to have a quick-booting computer with applications that start-up almost instantly. It may not actively make the actual act of your editing faster, but I think you'll take note of the snappy responsiveness, and how much quicker you can move large-volume files around.
 
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