Need PC Component Update Advice

[Sreno1]

Hello, I bought my computer almost 8 months ago and I feel as though it's upgrade time. Here are my parts http://pcpartpicker.com/list/dGrMnn and I am wondering what upgrade would give me the biggest performance increase? This is a gaming computer and I have $100 to spend. I was thinking a Samsung 850 250gb ssd for boot drive and my favorite games, then I thought about another 8gb of ram + a all in one CPU cooler. 

 

Give me your recommendations below, thanks!

[Altecice]

Without a doubt get an SSD and move/reinstall your OS onto it. 

[Imakuni]

1 minute ago, Sreno1 said:

Hello, I bought my computer almost 8 months ago and I feel as though it's upgrade time. Here are my parts http://pcpartpicker.com/list/dGrMnn and I am wondering what upgrade would give me the biggest performance increase? This is a gaming computer and I have $100 to spend. I was thinking a Samsung 850 250gb ssd for boot drive and my favorite games, then I thought about another 8gb of ram + a all in one CPU cooler. 

 

Give me your recommendations below, thanks!

Free upgrade: overclock your RAM. It'll increase your performance somewhat.

 

Poor man's upgrade: SSD. Won't increase your raw performance in games, but will make the PC feel more responsive. Personally, I think 120gb is more than enough, you can save the cash. But that's just me, I'm sure other people will think I'm stupid for saying that.

 

True upgrade: get a better GPU. The 960 is pretty weak.

[Sreno1]

8 minutes ago, Altecice said:

Without a doubt get an SSD and move/reinstall your OS onto it. 

 

6 minutes ago, Imakuni said:

Free upgrade: overclock your RAM. It'll increase your performance somewhat.

 

Poor man's upgrade: SSD. Won't increase your raw performance in games, but will make the PC feel more responsive. Personally, I think 120gb is more than enough, you can save the cash. But that's just me, I'm sure other people will think I'm stupid for saying that.

 

True upgrade: get a better GPU. The 960 is pretty weak.

Will a SSD that I put my OS on be generally faster while I am using it, or is it just boot times? I don't want to spend $50-100 just for faster boot times.

[arch_linuxos]

SSD will definitely make it feel snappier. Just use the Samsung Data Migration software to move your OS and voila. Although clean install can never go amiss :).

 

If you want, you can sell the 960 and with that + the $100 you can buy an RX480 or GTX 1060. That would help a lot in game, whereas SSD would just be general responsiveness/boot time.

[arch_linuxos]

1 minute ago, Sreno1 said:

 

Will a SSD that I put my OS on be generally faster while I am using it, or is it just boot times? I don't want to spend $50-100 just for faster boot times.

It'll make programs open faster too, as well as faster file transfers.

 

Lower seek times too (less latency).

[Imakuni]

1 minute ago, Sreno1 said:

Will a SSD that I put my OS on be generally faster while I am using it, or is it just boot times? I don't want to spend $50-100 just for faster boot times.

Faster boots, Windows+S stuff is faster, opening files and programs is faster... it feels better to use, though raw performance is going to be the same.

[Sreno1]

1 hour ago, Altecice said:

Without a doubt get an SSD and move/reinstall your OS onto it. 

 

1 hour ago, Imakuni said:

Faster boots, Windows+S stuff is faster, opening files and programs is faster... it feels better to use, though raw performance is going to be the same.

will this SSD work for my motherboard? https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-750-EVO-2-5-Inch-MZ-750120BW/dp/B01AAKZRPW/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1470343603&sr=8-4&keywords=samsung+evo+850+120gb+ssd

 

[Imakuni]

5 hours ago, Sreno1 said:

 

will this SSD work for my motherboard? https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-750-EVO-2-5-Inch-MZ-750120BW/dp/B01AAKZRPW/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1470343603&sr=8-4&keywords=samsung+evo+850+120gb+ssd

 

While the answer would be "yes", you can get something a lot cheaper. Like this: http://pcpartpicker.com/product/qf98TW/a-data-internal-hard-drive-asp550ss3120gmc

[DunePilot]

As large of a Samsung 850 Evo as you can get imho. I know someone else said ~125GB but I wouldn't get anything smaller than ~250GB.  If you can squeeze another $30 into the budget forget the AIO and get a Cryorig H7 instead for $30.

[gregforlenz]

Definitely an ssd would be the best part to upgrade. All your parts are great and dont need to be upgraded (maybe your gpu but the 960 is still a very very good graphics card). An ssd makes your whole operating system run so much faster and is prob the best feeling coming to an ssd from a hard drive. You will never want to go back.