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5 hours ago, VGS_XD said:

I've gotten a hand me down Hp Probook 450 G4 on my hands with an i7 7500u 250Gb SATA SSD, and 8Gb of ddr4 2133 MHz ram, My question is does it make more sense to get a 500gb-1tb NVME drive or get an additional 8gb of ram.

Some context: I am a Uni student and not rarely do i find myself with 10+ tabs open while looking things up, but I also like to play lightweight games on the side such as Terraria, Minecraft(modded as much as i can get away with), WoW classic, League of legends etc. And I've found myself running short on both ram and storage lately, I will likely upgrade both, but which should I upgrade first given that money is kind of hard to come by right now.

 

P.S. The reason i want to get an NVME drive as opposed to a SATA one is because i have a spare Laptop Hard drive but not a spare Sata slot to plug it in to.

To a large degree it depends on what the thing is used for.  This is a gaming site, so assuming gaming, Get the ram first. It will make the machine faster doing everything but boot whereas the ssd will help with boot, but less so with other things.  The drive you have is likely of reasonable speed it’s just not very large.  Pure storage space wise You can always offload files to the cloud temporarily.  That sort of thing is rental, so it eventually becomes more expensive, so math needs to be done to figure out costs vs the time 

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I've gotten a hand me down Hp Probook 450 G4 on my hands with an i7 7500u 250Gb SATA SSD, and 8Gb of ddr4 2133 MHz ram, My question is does it make more sense to get a 500gb-1tb NVME drive or get an additional 8gb of ram.

Some context: I am a Uni student and not rarely do i find myself with 10+ tabs open while looking things up, but I also like to play lightweight games on the side such as Terraria, Minecraft(modded as much as i can get away with), WoW classic, League of legends etc. And I've found myself running short on both ram and storage lately, I will likely upgrade both, but which should I upgrade first given that money is kind of hard to come by right now.

 

P.S. The reason i want to get an NVME drive as opposed to a SATA one is because i have a spare Laptop Hard drive but not a spare Sata slot to plug it in to.

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5 hours ago, VGS_XD said:

I've gotten a hand me down Hp Probook 450 G4 on my hands with an i7 7500u 250Gb SATA SSD, and 8Gb of ddr4 2133 MHz ram, My question is does it make more sense to get a 500gb-1tb NVME drive or get an additional 8gb of ram.

Some context: I am a Uni student and not rarely do i find myself with 10+ tabs open while looking things up, but I also like to play lightweight games on the side such as Terraria, Minecraft(modded as much as i can get away with), WoW classic, League of legends etc. And I've found myself running short on both ram and storage lately, I will likely upgrade both, but which should I upgrade first given that money is kind of hard to come by right now.

 

P.S. The reason i want to get an NVME drive as opposed to a SATA one is because i have a spare Laptop Hard drive but not a spare Sata slot to plug it in to.

To a large degree it depends on what the thing is used for.  This is a gaming site, so assuming gaming, Get the ram first. It will make the machine faster doing everything but boot whereas the ssd will help with boot, but less so with other things.  The drive you have is likely of reasonable speed it’s just not very large.  Pure storage space wise You can always offload files to the cloud temporarily.  That sort of thing is rental, so it eventually becomes more expensive, so math needs to be done to figure out costs vs the time 

Not a pro, not even very good.  I’m just old and have time currently.  Assuming I know a lot about computers can be a mistake.

 

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23 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

To a large degree it depends on what the thing is used for.  This is a gaming site, so assuming gaming, Get the ram first. It will make the machine faster doing everything but boot whereas the ssd will help with boot, but less so with other things.  The drive you have is likely of reasonable speed it’s just not very large.  Pure storage space wise You can always offload files to the cloud temporarily.  That sort of thing is rental, so it eventually becomes more expensive, so math needs to be done to figure out costs vs the time 

Thanks, I've a feeling it will also help keep chrome under control for a while.

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