What upgrades would be the most beneficial?

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Shiloh005

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I am wondering what upgrades are going to benefit me more.
My PC is mainly for gaming and school work. I dont play very demanding games, but i may in the future. Just kinda wondering what is bottlenecking my system the most.

Current components:
CPU- AMD A6-6400K Richland 3.9GHz
RAM- 4GB
GPU- EVGA Superclock GTX 760 2GB
I have a old harddrive (not an SSD)

I'm looking to upgrade my CPU, RAM, and to get a SSD.
Should I upgrade my RAM and SSD first? Or my CPU first?
I'm currently on a budget or I would upgrade all of it.

Upgrades:
RAM- 4GB to 8GB
SSD- Samsung Evo 840 Series.
CPU- i5-4690k

Also if you have an suggestions on my upgrades I would love to hear them.

Thanks in advance!!!
 
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xtobymc
I'd say you're better off upgrading your CPU first as it's only dual-core. You're much better of with quad-core for gaming purposes. Your RAM ideally should be 8GB+ for more demanding games, luckily RAM is a fairly inexpensive upgrade anyway. Your graphics card is still decent, I have a few friends that still play many demanding games with the same GPU and it's still a popular GPU in terms of value for money. An SSD will give you significantly faster read/write speeds, but they're also pretty expensive and small in capacity.

My order of purchases would be: CPU, RAM, SSD (or even look into SSHD's)

Hope this helps
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8GB isn't always needed yes its nice but I think upgrading the SSD and CPU should be first on your list, SSD just means that you will load what ever is on it so much quicker its totally worth it got mine never looked back.
 
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I'd say you're better off upgrading your CPU first as it's only dual-core. You're much better of with quad-core for gaming purposes. Your RAM ideally should be 8GB+ for more demanding games, luckily RAM is a fairly inexpensive upgrade anyway. Your graphics card is still decent, I have a few friends that still play many demanding games with the same GPU and it's still a popular GPU in terms of value for money. An SSD will give you significantly faster read/write speeds, but they're also pretty expensive and small in capacity.

My order of purchases would be: CPU, RAM, SSD (or even look into SSHD's)

Hope this helps
 
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