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I'm thinking about upgrading my PC. I don't know where my bottlenecks are in my system. I'm currently looking at upgrading my GTX 760 4GB to a GTX 980. I'm also looking at upgrading my 1TB HDD to a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD. I need to know if these upgrades are worth the money I'm putting into it. I mostly do gaming and I want to squeeze every frame out of my machine as possible.

Thanks, BluShammrock

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I'm thinking about upgrading my PC. I don't know where my bottlenecks are in my system. I'm currently looking at upgrading my GTX 760 4GB to a GTX 980. I'm also looking at upgrading my 1TB HDD to a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD. I need to know if these upgrades are worth the money I'm putting into it. I mostly do gaming and I want to squeeze every frame out of my machine as possible.

Thanks, BluShammrock

SSD will only improve load times, and will not benefit FPS in any way.

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980 is good i would just get like 120 gb ssd for as cheap as you can get and use it as a hard drive cache

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I'm thinking about upgrading my PC. I don't know where my bottlenecks are in my system. I'm currently looking at upgrading my GTX 760 4GB to a GTX 980. I'm also looking at upgrading my 1TB HDD to a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD. I need to know if these upgrades are worth the money I'm putting into it. I mostly do gaming and I want to squeeze every frame out of my machine as possible.

Thanks, BluShammrock

SSD is always a great upgrade, however a GTX 980 might be bottlenecked by your CPU (depending on what you have of course). If you have any newer intel i5/i7 or amd similar (sorry don't know their models) then you should be fine.

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Considering your specs, there's no bottleneck.

Just get a 128/256GB SSD instead, install the OS and your softwares on it, keep the games and other large things on the HDD. Use the extra money you saved from getting a lower capacity SSD to upgrade the GPU if you really want to.

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Considering your specs, there's no bottleneck.

Just get a 128/256GB SSD instead, install the OS and your softwares on it, keep the games and other large things on the HDD. Use the extra money you saved from getting a lower capacity SSD to upgrade the GPU if you really want to.

Pretty much this.

 

I live with a 128gb SSD, and I'm yet to fill it out.

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I have a 128GB SSD and have not filled it up yet.

Main Gaming PC (new): HP Omen 30L || i9 10850K || RTX 3070 || 512GB WD Blue NVME || 2TB HDD, 4TB HDD, 8TB HDD ||  750W P2 ||  16GB HyperX Black DDR4

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What about my processor? Will I need to upgrade that as well?

CPU: Intel Core i7 4820K / GPU: Nvidia GTX 760 4GB / RAM: 2x 8GB DDR3 2133 / MOBO: Asus P9X79 LE / HDD: 1 TB / Case: NZXT Phantom 410 White / Cooling: CPU Closed Liquid ARC Dual Silent / PSU: 850w / OS: Win7

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What about my processor? Will I need to upgrade that as well?

Nope. Your CPU is awesome.

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