Upgrade a good Idea?

[spre4]

Hello, I have a Lenovo Y500 laptop, I love that laptop it can still run all esports tittles good enough, like LoL, CS:GO and so on. But it is 6 years old by now, and i am debating with myself if it is worth to update it from 8 gb RAM to 16 gb Ram and putting a m.SATA SSD in it and trying to migrate the windows from the HDD it has to the SSD. 

 

Laptop Specs: 

Processor: Intel I7-3630QM CPU @ 2.40GZ

Motherboard : 20193

RAM: 8 gb DDR3L 

Video cards: 2x nVidia 650M GT 2gb each working is SLI 

 

 

[Epimetheus]

8 gb of ram is still ok in 2019 (unless maybe it's running in single channel), and doesn't that laptop already have a small ssd in it? If it doesn't totally worth it to get one

[spre4]

Hey, there were too options back in 2013 when I got it, and unfotunatally the one with the sad in it was all sold out and I had to get the one without, back than that was the best thing I could have gotten for that money :D

[Epimetheus]

5 minutes ago, spre4 said:

Hey, there were too options back in 2013 when I got it, and unfotunatally the one with the sad in it was all sold out and I had to get the one without, back than that was the best thing I could have gotten for that money

Yeah totally get an ssd, the system will be much snappier

[AndrewB121]

Definitely get the SSD, and in fact it may even be worth upgrading the HDD beforeit fails, 6 years is a long time. 

 

Not sure about the RAM, 8gb is enough for most things and the DDR3L may be harder to find. 

[19_blackie_73]

If you don't run out of ram currently you're fine

And SSD will help a lot

[DoctorNick]

Get a SSD.. If you want better gaming performance, then buy a new PC.

[spre4]

4 hours ago, 19_blackie_73 said:

If you don't run out of ram currently you're fine

And SSD will help a lot

I do not think that i run out of RAM, but my issue is that the HDD sometimes works at 100 % for like 15-20 minutes for no reason ... 

[19_blackie_73]

7 minutes ago, spre4 said:

I do not think that i run out of RAM, but my issue is that the HDD sometimes works at 100 % for like 15-20 minutes for no reason ... 

ram won't fix that, but you cpuld monitor it with something like hwinfo and see if you really would need it

the hdd 100% is common, fix is ssd