Upgrade Graphics card?

[Wuush]

1 hour ago, VenomizerX said:

Man an SSD does matter, may it be M.2 nvme or classic SATA since it makes every system coming from traditional HDD's much snappier and overall faster. I ran on an HDD as a boot drive for 6 years and just booting up or opening a single app it takes a while. With a SATA SSD now, everything is basically instant when opening applications and boot up is significantly faster. Best way to speed up an old system or prebuilt without one. Definitely a worth upgrade seen as you can get a cheap yet quality SSD 120gb as a boot drive for around $20 more or less...

It's prime day so there's a 1tb SSD for like 99 bucks. Is this a good pick up?

[steelo]

I think you might have posted in the wrong section

 

That's not a bad deal, I've seen it cheaper though.

[Wuush]

Just now, steelo said:

I think you might have posted in the wrong section

 

That's not a bad deal, I've seen it cheaper though.

It started as a GPU question i swear! Haha 

 

Yeah that and 16gb Patriot viper ram for 60 bucks with same day delivery 

[Sat1600]

1 hour ago, VenomizerX said:

Man an SSD does matter, may it be M.2 nvme or classic SATA since it makes every system coming from traditional HDD's much snappier and overall faster. I ran on an HDD as a boot drive for 6 years and just booting up or opening a single app it takes a while. With a SATA SSD now, everything is basically instant when opening applications and boot up is significantly faster. Best way to speed up an old system or prebuilt without one. Definitely a worth upgrade seen as you can get a cheap yet quality SSD 120gb as a boot drive for around $20 more or less...

Badly phrased sorry. He asked if I had suggestions for an SSD and a GPU. I should have phrased it like this:

 

As far as ssd is concerned it doesn't matter much which one you pick. You are not using m.2 so the difference in brand matter too much.

 

I did suggest he do a clean install on an ssd. But I was not suggesting that there is no difference between HDD and ssd

[steelo]

2 minutes ago, Wuush said:

It started as a GPU question i swear! Haha 

 

Yeah that and 16gb Patriot viper ram for 60 bucks with same day delivery 

Oh, I just saw that this is page 2 of the thread. You're right

 

The ram is a good deal, I believe. I paid $58 for 8 gb about 2 months ago.

[Epimetheus]

i'd keep the 970 which is still a 1060 level card and look into buying more ram, and ssd and maybe an hyperthreaded cpu

[Wuush]

5 hours ago, Epimetheus said:

i'd keep the 970 which is still a 1060 level card and look into buying more ram, and ssd and maybe an hyperthreaded cpu

Prime day helped out a bunch I picked up 2 8 gb or ram and a 1tb internal sata 3 SSD 

[Wuush]

On 7/10/2019 at 10:04 PM, Jurrunio said:

Sure, take the 1660. Also add an SSD in there for the OS and major software. Single channel memory could be a problem so doesn't hurt to get another 8GB stick. If you want to upgrade the CPU, try find a cheap i7 or Xeon E3 1230 (or larger number) v3. unlocked i7s are quite expensive last I checked in my region and fake CPUs are everywhere for this generation.

Hey so I picked up the SSD and 2 8gb sticks of ram. I installed the RAM and just need another other the smaller SATA 3 cables for the SSD. Should I be noticing any kind of difference in function with the new extra 16gb?

[Jurrunio]

2 minutes ago, Wuush said:

Hey so I picked up the SSD and 2 8gb sticks of ram. I installed the RAM and just need another other the smaller SATA 3 cables for the SSD. Should I be noticing any kind of difference in function with the new extra 16gb?

ah, too late to stop you now

 

in function? Not really. The board should detect them right away, if it doesn't just clear CMOS.

[Wuush]

9 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

ah, too late to stop you now

 

in function? Not really. The board should detect them right away, if it doesn't just clear CMOS.

Too late to stop me for what?

 

Also they are being detected just fine. Was just wondering is all

[Jurrunio]

27 minutes ago, Wuush said:

Also they are being detected just fine. Was just wondering is all

already moved the OS over to the SSD?

 

28 minutes ago, Wuush said:

Too late to stop me for what?

buying that SSD. You can get TLC SATA drives (SU800) or QLC NVMe drives (660p, P1) for the same money, yet the 860 QVO itself gets the disadvantage of both (QLC SATA).