Looking to upgrade bit by bit. What should my priorities be?

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Heyo!

I saved up some cash over the past months and I've noticed that my PC is really pushing hard to keep up with some new games.

I mostly play Rust (Memory Intensive), Prepar3d (GPU Intensive), and I'm looking to make my boot speed faster.

Here's where I'm at (In order of importance):

1. Get an SSD
2. Memory
3. Graphics Card
4. CPU + Motherboard
5. Better cooling


Loading times really bug me especially with Prepar3d it takes 5 minutes to load and the program always crashes to desktop.

 
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coozie7
Certainly adding an SSD is going to dramatically improve load/save times, that should, indeed be first, but with the current MB you'll be 'limited' to a SATA type SSD.
With 12Gb already onboard the memory is enough for now, besides, when you move CPU/MB you'll need to use DDR4 memory, so any upgrade here is really just not viable.
The next target would be CPU/MB/RAM most of AMDs Ryzen cats are out of the bag now so there's a pretty good idea as to what's out there for the foreseeable future, choose your poison.
I'd hold off on a graphics upgrade just for now, and make that the last thing on your list, mainly because we're all STILL waiting for AMD to FINALLY release its new Vega cored cards. :(
Cooling can be added at any time, you...
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Certainly adding an SSD is going to dramatically improve load/save times, that should, indeed be first, but with the current MB you'll be 'limited' to a SATA type SSD.
With 12Gb already onboard the memory is enough for now, besides, when you move CPU/MB you'll need to use DDR4 memory, so any upgrade here is really just not viable.
The next target would be CPU/MB/RAM most of AMDs Ryzen cats are out of the bag now so there's a pretty good idea as to what's out there for the foreseeable future, choose your poison.
I'd hold off on a graphics upgrade just for now, and make that the last thing on your list, mainly because we're all STILL waiting for AMD to FINALLY release its new Vega cored cards. :(
Cooling can be added at any time, you won't need anything like a massive CPU cooler, not with a modern part in the mix, consider it as optional.

So I suggest:
1; SSD
2; CPU/MB/RAM
3; GPU
4; Cooling, but it's entirely optional with so many shiny, new, high efficiency parts.
 
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Yeah I was also looking into selling my current PC bit by bit and buying a whole new system since the motherboard + cpu is complete horse shit. But I wouldn't have anything to use when I sell one part.

Thanks for the reply legendary sr-71!~






Thank you for this. I needed someone to tell me to keep on waiting for the Vega cards AMD is gonna release. As of now, I am eyeing on some SSDs, but i am curious if I can get a PCIE SSD working with my crappy motherboard.

Ill probably upgrade the CPU+Mobo+Ram+GPU all in one go just like what sr-71 said. If I manage to save up some more cash.

Thanks everyone for your replies!
 
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