Upgrade RAM or SSD

[SimplyGameDev]

So, I'm stuck in this decision where either I can upgrade ram or SSD. I just bought an ssd but my motherboard's having M.2 L3.5 but I can't find any ssd that is compatible to that socket. So, if I have to install an M.2 nvme ssd, I would have to buy an adapter for that, or I can upgrade my PC's RAM.

My system specs: cpu: Intel core i3 6100, Ram: 4gb ddr3l (not laptop version), no gpu, Storage: 2x512gb hdd.

I would really appreciate your advise.

[AnewUser3021]

If you game on it or do something that require a lot of application to be opened regularly then i would say upgrade your ram. 8 gigabyte in dual channel would be a great upgrade

[AnewUser3021]

Can you send me a picture of the socket

[April97]

RAM is probably a good call here, most modern-ish games will benefit from the increase from 4 to 8 GB

[SimplyGameDev]

On 9/17/2022 at 5:51 PM, AnewUser3021 said:

Can you send me a picture of the socket

Hey, so this is the ssd compatible with my pc, the difference is that it is having 5 pins on the smaller side while normal ssd's have 4 pins instead.

[SimplyGameDev]

2 minutes ago, SimplyGameDev said:

Hey, so this is the ssd compatible with my pc, the difference is that it is having 5 pins on the smaller side while normal ssd's have 4 pins instead.

Also, I'm not buying this ssd as it would be dumb to buy 256gigs of storage for around 128$.

[AnewUser3021]

21 hours ago, SimplyGameDev said:

Also, I'm not buying this ssd as it would be dumb to buy 256gigs of storage for around 128$.

I think it's a normal NVME M.2 drive

[AnewUser3021]

It have a 5 pins too