Help with Upgrading?

[Defiantone07]

Should I upgrade? If I do what path do I take intel or AMD? I am currently not happy with my motherboard because it only has one M.2 slot and I seem to be out of space on my NVME 1TB SSD. I would like to have 2TB not sure if I should upgrade the whole build or just buy a bigger NVME. I know my system was overkill back in late 2016 when I built it just not sure the path.

 

Build:

 

MSI X99 Pro Carbon Gaming

 

Intel I7 6850K

 

Intel 660P NVME 1TB

[jaslion]

A 6850k is still a really nice cpu and it has oc headroom if you want to. Just get a sata ssd? Unless you are doing some professional level things using the drive as a scratch disk you won't notice any difference between a nvme drive or a sata drive.

[Defiantone07]

2 minutes ago, jaslion said:

A 6850k is still a really nice cpu and it has oc headroom if you want to. Just get a sata ssd? Unless you are doing some professional level things using the drive as a scratch disk you won't notice any difference between a nvme drive or a sata drive.

I have been spoiled with gaming on the NVME and I do notice the difference in game load times. I do not even keep much media on the drive its all games and they are getting huge.

[jaslion]

Just now, Defiantone07 said:

I have been spoiled with gaming on the NVME and I do notice the difference in game load times. I do not even keep much media on the drive its all games and they are getting huge.

Get a 860 evo sata drive. When looking up benchmarks the 660p is only better in non random situations which is like copying one big file. It's about the same in random fetching which is basically what loading a game is.

[PyroTheWise]

2 minutes ago, Defiantone07 said:

I have been spoiled with gaming on the NVME and I do notice the difference in game load times. I do not even keep much media on the drive its all games and they are getting huge.

Why not get that Sata SSD for storage.  Offload the games you are not actively playting to the SSD to free up space on the NVMe.   It should be easy enough to move the game back to the NVMe if you try to play it and it was too slow. 

 

Here is an interesting video, I think you should watch ->

 

[Defiantone07]

24 minutes ago, PyroTheWise said:

Why not get that Sata SSD for storage.  Offload the games you are not actively playting to the SSD to free up space on the NVMe.   It should be easy enough to move the game back to the NVMe if you try to play it and it was too slow. 

 

Here is an interesting video, I think you should watch ->

 

Thanks for the video that helped I will just move stuff around for now.