SSD or Ram Upgrade?

[TheAmazingCookieFromSquare]

Which one & why.

[meenmeen1103]

Knowing the current hardware and usage would help so much with this decision

[TheAmazingCookieFromSquare]

Just now, meenmeen1103 said:

Knowing the current hardware and usage would help so much with this decision

Current Hardware is 6600K and 1080

 

Usage is that I have extra money and I wanna upgrade my pc

[meenmeen1103]

1 minute ago, TheAmazingCookieFromSquare said:

Current Hardware is 6600K and 1080

 

Usage is that I have extra money and I wanna upgrade my pc

So then the options listed are the current parts you are looking at upgrading from and not to right?

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1 minute ago, TheAmazingCookieFromSquare said:

Current Hardware is 6600K and 1080

 

Usage is that I have extra money and I wanna upgrade my pc

How about how much RAM you currently have and what HDD/SSD you're using?

[Mira Yurizaki]

SSD. You'll notice the loading performance right away. Unless you already have an SSD.

 

RAM only if you're constantly running out and that's after closing your 500 Chrome tabs (assuming you use Chrome and have 500 tabs)

[TheAmazingCookieFromSquare]

Just now, meenmeen1103 said:

So then the options listed are the current parts you are looking at upgrading from and not to right?

 

Just now, Ryan_Vickers said:

How about how much RAM you currently have and what HDD/SSD you're using?

O right my bad

 

Now I have 2x4gb so I am just going to add in another 2x4gb for 16gb ram 

or

Now I have 1TB WD Blue + BX200 128GB

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1 minute ago, TheAmazingCookieFromSquare said:

 

O right my bad

 

Now I have 2x4gb so I am just going to add in another 2x4gb for 16gb ram 

or

Now I have 1TB WD Blue + BX200 128GB

hm, that's a tough one... although, the options you listed (16 GB of RAM vs 500 GB SSD) aren't the same price, so I'm a little curious why that's the question.  I'd just do both  

[Thinkfreely]

3 minutes ago, TheAmazingCookieFromSquare said:

 

O right my bad

 

Now I have 2x4gb so I am just going to add in another 2x4gb for 16gb ram 

or

Now I have 1TB WD Blue + BX200 128GB

Ssd with 8gb of ram your most likely not going to bottleneck, most games dont even take advantage of 8gb of ram. Plus the 1080 has a ton of memory. So go SSD you will get load and performance benefits, adding 8gb more will Most likely give you none.

[Juggern0ttt]

If you already have a ssd boot drive I would mean towards ram, for some more multi tasking and slightly smoother gaming while your chrome buffers YouTube videos 

[Juggern0ttt]

1 minute ago, Thinkfreely said:

Ssd with 8gb of ram your most likely not going to bottleneck, most games font even take advantage of 8gb of ram. Plus the 1080 has a ton of memory. So go SSD you will get load and performance benefits, adding 8gb more willost likely give you none.

He already has a bx200 boot drive, mass storage ssd doesn't give huge benefits. I'd think 16 gigs of ram would be a little more beneficial . 

[Luc401]

SSD if you dont already have one, or ram if you do daily/weekly photo or video editing in premiere/lightroom.

[TheAmazingCookieFromSquare]

6 minutes ago, Thinkfreely said:

Ssd with 8gb of ram your most likely not going to bottleneck, most games dont even take advantage of 8gb of ram. Plus the 1080 has a ton of memory. So go SSD you will get load and performance benefits, adding 8gb more will Most likely give you none.

 

3 minutes ago, Luc401 said:

SSD if you dont already have one, or ram if you do daily/weekly photo or video editing in premiere/lightroom.

 

6 minutes ago, Juggern0ttt said:

If you already have a ssd boot drive I would mean towards ram, for some more multi tasking and slightly smoother gaming while your chrome buffers YouTube videos 

 

10 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

SSD. You'll notice the loading performance right away. Unless you already have an SSD.

 

RAM only if you're constantly running out and that's after closing your 500 Chrome tabs (assuming you use Chrome and have 500 tabs)

 

11 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

How about how much RAM you currently have and what HDD/SSD you're using?

 

11 minutes ago, meenmeen1103 said:

So then the options listed are the current parts you are looking at upgrading from and not to right?

I mean I am running a little low on ram here

 

[Luc401]

1 minute ago, TheAmazingCookieFromSquare said:

 

 

 

 

 

I mean I am running a little low on ram here

 

Theres no need for those 3 email tabs and 5 amazon tabs...

[TheAmazingCookieFromSquare]

1 minute ago, Luc401 said:

Theres no need for those 3 email tabs and 5 amazon tabs...

You expect me to close every one of those little skinny tabs? Also I have personal email work email and school email lol

[Luc401]

7 minutes ago, TheAmazingCookieFromSquare said:

You expect me to close every one of those little skinny tabs? Also I have personal email work email and school email lol

I do too and it looks like this 

http://imgur.com/O4weea7

[Juggern0ttt]

Get ram man. A mass storage ssd will shave a second or two off load times, but more ram will smooth things out all around 

[DunePilot]

Tough call.. wait until black Friday and get both? Lol.... I just can't hardly build a system without an SSD now days though so I would personally probably pick that up first, even though you are using a lot of resources with all those "my little pony" wikipedia tabs open.