More ram or get an ssd?

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I plan on playing games like Bf1, Players unknown battlegrounds, rainbow 6 and so on. I don't know if i should build my pc with 8 gb of ram and a 250gb ssd, or if I should get 16gb of ram. I will only really use my pc for gaming. What would you do?
 
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geofelt
Buy both.
Not meaning to be giving a smart-ass answer, let me explain.

1. If you are only doing a single thing, like gaming, 8gb is plenty. Once you start to multitask you need sufficient ram to hold all of your working sets.
If, in the future, though, you are thinking of adding 8gb, you are better off doing it up front in a matched kit. Adding ram is not guaranteed to work. If your initial 8gb were in the form of a single 8gb stick, you would be initially operating in slower single channel mode.
If you have a motherboard with 4 ram slots, you could buy 2 x 4gb initially. But running 4 sticks after an upgrade is much harder.

2. I will never again build without a ssd for the "C" drive. It makes everything you do much...
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Buy both.
Not meaning to be giving a smart-ass answer, let me explain.

1. If you are only doing a single thing, like gaming, 8gb is plenty. Once you start to multitask you need sufficient ram to hold all of your working sets.
If, in the future, though, you are thinking of adding 8gb, you are better off doing it up front in a matched kit. Adding ram is not guaranteed to work. If your initial 8gb were in the form of a single 8gb stick, you would be initially operating in slower single channel mode.
If you have a motherboard with 4 ram slots, you could buy 2 x 4gb initially. But running 4 sticks after an upgrade is much harder.

2. I will never again build without a ssd for the "C" drive. It makes everything you do much quicker.
See if you can't defer on the hard drive unless you need to store large files such as video's.
It is easy to add a hard drive later.

Samsung EVO is a good choice for performance and reliability.

List your proposed build details; perhaps there are some tradeoffs available.

If you can't do both, buy the 8gb kit and the ssd.
 
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