What to upgrade for better Gaming Performance?

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Hi,
I've recently purchased a gaming desktop for $770 after tax which I think is a good value but I want to upgrade for even better gaming performance as I am not fully satisfied with its performance. Sometimes it lags on games that run smoothly at my laptop which I purchased years ago.

System Specs:
- Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3
- Processor: AMD FX-6300 3.5 GHz Six-Core/AMD 760 G Chip-set (Max Turbo Speed 4.1 GHz)
- RAM: 8GB DDR3
- Hard Drive: SATA II 1TB/8GB SSHD 7200 RPM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 1GB DDR5
- Windows 10 (recently updated from 8.1) 64 bit
- Monitor: HP Pavilion 27xw
- Power Supply: Ultra 600 WATT ATX

Let's say my budget would be max $400, what should I upgrade?

Should I add 250GB SSD? Is SSHD already fast enough? Also should I add another 8GB RAM or would it be redundant?

P.S. I've purchased Archer T9E AC1900 Wireless Adapter, but it turned out that my motherboard doesn't have extra PCI-e slot so I cannot use it. Is there anywhere that I can sell it online? It has been never used but the box has been opened.

Thanks!
 
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I was going to say pretty much the same really.

Get a GeForce GTX 900 series card:
-950 - Low tier

-960 - Mid range (can do near High - Ultra on nearly all games at 1080p but frame rate may dip to 50s sometimes depending if your CPU is able to keep up with the games demands and the GPU's)

-970 - High range (can do ultra at 1080p and stay at 60fps with fps dipping really only when there is a bottleneck/bad optimisation in a game) Also I own the MSI GTX 970 4GB and its brill card love it

-980 Very high end...
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The GPU is your key piece there. Keep in mind that CPU is a minor part in gaming performance. As the FX processors are supposed to create bottleneck, i've tried running few GPUS with both a FX 4300 and a I5 4690 (GTX 760, 960, 290, 280). Even if there was a bottleneck there, i wasn't able to apreciate it, so I would just stay with your actual processor and go for a new GPU.

Second hand R9 290 are the best value / performance if you ask me, and sometimes 1st hand are too, depending on your country. I'm from spain and here it's dificult to find a nice price in 1st hand 290, but some people are buying them in France where you can do that easily. It's just about checking prices.

Also, your PSU may be a good option to upgrade, I think. The 600W "random" PSUs usually work good with those demanding graphic cards, but it's better dont gambling with it.

That would be a total of 200-240€ for the GPU and 90-130€ for the PSU ( 550- 600W tier1 should be more than enough). I like the EVGA supernova G2 gama for their 10 year warranty, but that's just up to you : )

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As someone said, SSHD are not worth the money. SSD on the other hand, may be interesting for the price. The extra RAm won't mean any enhacement, as it's a value which works just the same way HDD: You use it or you dont use it, but having more wont mean it work any better.
 
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I was going to say pretty much the same really.

Get a GeForce GTX 900 series card:
-950 - Low tier

-960 - Mid range (can do near High - Ultra on nearly all games at 1080p but frame rate may dip to 50s sometimes depending if your CPU is able to keep up with the games demands and the GPU's)

-970 - High range (can do ultra at 1080p and stay at 60fps with fps dipping really only when there is a bottleneck/bad optimisation in a game) Also I own the MSI GTX 970 4GB and its brill card love it

-980 Very high end (not really worth it, if your thinking of a GTX 980 you might as well just stick out a bit more and get the 980TI)

-980TI Highest end (The best the GTX series can offer and you get a lot for your money even though the price is completely insanely overpriced, get this is you want a no worry gaming experience but you will need a beefy CPU to keep up with this monster of a card and a PSU to feed the beast)


Also like the person said above an SSD will help out a butt load with speed but only on the loading department as an SSD specialises in fast reading speeds. So if you installed the OS on it you'd be loaded up in 10-20s flat round about, I own an Samsung EVO 850 250GB and its cut down my waiting time for programs hugely. An SSD is the best all around upgrade for a computer.

To note the bigger the drive the longer it will last due to one write being a lot bigger to complete, SSD have hundreds of thousands of writes till it hits its limit but when it reaches it will not write anymore. One write of the drive is when it has written over the whole drive once so for me that would be 250Gb and so far mine has written about 800GB so that's 2 and 1/2 writes which is puny).
Though this is from my own experience an what I have read through forums and articles.

Also if your thinking you need more RAM well you don't unless your going to do editing and rendering which eats RAM. 8Gb has be the standard for gamers and general desktop users for along time now, I use hardly 3Gb of my 2x4GB RAM while doing general desktop stuff such as having programs open all together such as Spotify, 5 chrome tabs open, steam chat and maybe playing hearthstone in the background (I just use alt-tab to switch between each window) but while gaming I have never seen the RAM go above 5GB depending on the game while my GPU has never needed to use more than 3GB of its 4GB VRAM, the GPU has never gone above 60% while vysnced and maxed in games unless I unvysnc the game which then makes the GPU go 100% usage as its trying to chug out the max frames it can (may cause coil whine)

Regards
 
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