Bottleneck question Phenom x6 & GTX 460

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Hi, I've found the answer to some of my questions in this forum before, and I have a doubt about my PC.
Recently I upgraded some of my components, and I dont´r really feel ok with my pc performance.
I have an AMD Phenom x6 1075T with a 12Gb Ram memory Kingston Hyper X 1600Mhz, a GeForce GTX 460 SE graphic card, a ASUS M5A78L usb3.0 motherboard and a Samsung 840 SSD.
I had an HDD disk before, and only 4Gb of ram Memory. I upgraded my pc with 8Gb more of ram and changed the main disk to the SSD one.

I don't feel like the PC got really better, so I don't know if a should swich my graphic card or what.
I've been reading some threats, and I don't knew about the bottleneck effect.
Is it possible that my PC is unbalanced?
What's your opinion, should I change my Graphic Card?
 
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I don't think the CPU will bottleneck the GPU. GTX 460 SE is a pretty fine GPU though few years old for todays standard, but that doesn't mean it will not work better, its used to be the fastest single card once.

So exactly what are your problems ?
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I don't think the CPU will bottleneck the GPU. GTX 460 SE is a pretty fine GPU though few years old for todays standard, but that doesn't mean it will not work better, its used to be the fastest single card once.

So exactly what are your problems ?
 
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Gekyzou

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My problem is that I don´t feel an improvement in my pc after the +8GB ram memory update I've done.
I also changed my HDD to an SSD and I don't see a great diference.
Should I change my graphic card to see the difference?
Which graphic card do you think I could buy to match with my PC?
 
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Did you install the SSD on correct SATA port 3GB/6GB ? or did you set it on AHCI mode for SATA in BIOS ? Did you clean install the SSD for OS ?

Upgrading RAM, say from 4GB to 8GB doesn't make a huge difference.

And if you want you can replace the GPU with modern day GPU like GTX 760/770/780/780Ti or Radeon R9 270/280/290/290x depending on your budget.

But I still fail to understand the real problem. Are you getting a slow boot, that you hoping to be lightning fast with a SSD ? Or the programs are opening slow or taking long time to open/execution ? And how fast and good you want it to be ? Or games running slow, not getting desired FPS ?

BTW what's your make/model of PSU ?
 
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I installed my SSD in a SATA port.
I format both disks, the SSD and the HDD one, to reinstall Win7 on the SSD.

The upgrade I did to the RAM memory was a +8GB, from 4GB to 12GB.
I will replace my GPU to a GTX. I was thinking about 200€ budget approx.
I know that is a different question, but Lonewolf7, which GPU GTX brand do you recomend? MSI, ASUS, Gygabite...

Thanks for your answers.
 
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All of the three brands are decent and reliable. You can go with either one. And you wont need 12GB of RAM, its a waste of money and overkill too. Generally for average users 8GB RAM is sufficient. The PC will not run faster with 12GB of RAM, just keep that in mind.
 
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