Ram or Cpu Upgrade?

[Mike2121]

I notice my computer lags a bit when I have many tabs open in chrome or just in general. Its not as fast as I would like it to be. I have 8 gb of ddr4 Ram with a pentium g4600 CPU. I notice at times both are at 100 percent when Im doing a lot of stuff on my computer. I can only really upgrade one at the moment. Which should I upgrade? Or will an ssd solve my lag issues. Planning on upgrading to an I5-6500 in the future is this acceptable in 2018 or should I go higher? 

My build

-1060 6gb Evga mini

-1 tb black hdd

-pentium g4600

-8 gb ddr4 ram by aegis

-ASRock B250M-HDV LGA 1151 motherboard

[Lurick]

SSD and another 8GB of RAM would be my first go to for improvements, especially if you have a lot of Chrome tabs open and do other memory intensive tasks. Swap the CPU later on.

[Tokyo_Raven]

SSD & additional 8 gb's of ram

[grimreeper132]

what's the budget??? But I would suggest upgradding it in this manner

 

if gaming 

SSD -> CPU -> RAM

 

if gamign and web browsing (at the same time)

RAM -> SSD -> CPU

 

8GB of RAM is enough if your doing just 1 task at a time at the moment but if you are doing multiple then it quickly becomes an issue, or is your doing modded games, SSD will just speed up everything for oppening programes, booting into the OS and using the GUI of the OS, but won't help much in games. The CPU will help in all three but the problem is it costs significantely more than the other two which is why I suggest it latter down the list

[Dedayog]

2 minutes ago, grimreeper132 said:

what's the budget??? But I would suggest upgradding it in this manner

 

if gaming 

SSD -> CPU -> RAM

 

if gamign and web browsing (at the same time)

RAM -> SSD -> CPU

 

8GB of RAM is enough if your doing just 1 task at a time at the moment but if you are doing multiple then it quickly becomes an issue, or is your doing modded games, SSD will just speed up everything for oppening programes, booting into the OS and using the GUI of the OS, but won't help much in games. The CPU will help in all three but the problem is it costs significantely more than the other two which is why I suggest it latter down the list

For gaming, the SSD will drastically decrease long load times, depending on your gaming habits it can make life better.  My modded Ark server takes 15 mins on a HDD vs 4-5 on an SSD.

 

@grimreeper132 Now that's some named PCs damn man.

[grimreeper132]

2 minutes ago, jstudrawa said:

For gaming, the SSD will drastically decrease long load times, depending on your gaming habits it can make life better.  My modded Ark server takes 15 mins on a HDD vs 4-5 on an SSD.

 

@grimreeper132 Now that's some named PCs damn man.

yes it will drecrease load times as I said but fps will stay the same for them. 

 

Also I have another 17 PCs to put on there and the specs of the PCs will be going on there soon as well I just need to work it all out and do it, which when you have 27 splatted between two places takes longer than you'd think

[Dedayog]

4 minutes ago, grimreeper132 said:

yes it will drecrease load times as I said but fps will stay the same for them. 

 

Also I have another 17 PCs to put on there and the specs of the PCs will be going on there soon as well I just need to work it all out and do it, which when you have 27 splatted between two places takes longer than you'd think

I just wanted to specifically mention game loads, but yes you covered it.

 

No, I think I can imagine how long it would take Too long.  As in, it's a spreadsheet lover's dream!

[grimreeper132]

2 minutes ago, jstudrawa said:

I just wanted to specifically mention game loads, but yes you covered it.

 

No, I think I can imagine how long it would take Too long.  As in, it's a spreadsheet lover's dream!

yea I have just updated it with the specs for most, cause I am sad enough too know alot of them. And yea fair enough

[Mike2121]

Mostly for productivity. I sometimes game but not too much.

[Mike2121]

3 hours ago, grimreeper132 said:

yea I have just updated it with the specs for most, cause I am sad enough too know alot of them. And yea fair enough

My budget is as cheap as possible lol.

[grimreeper132]

5 minutes ago, Mike2121 said:

Mostly for productivity. I sometimes game but not too much.

what kind of productivity, cause CAD, photo editing etc. all will benifit from CPU

 

4 minutes ago, Mike2121 said:

My budget is as cheap as possible lol.

cheapest upgrade then if the SSD, but CPU preformance wise will make the most but will cost the most

[Mike2121]

3 hours ago, grimreeper132 said:

what kind of productivity, cause CAD, photo editing etc. all will benifit from CPU

 

cheapest upgrade then if the SSD, but CPU preformance wise will make the most but will cost the most

I will give my full in depth reply. I am going off to college next year. I game on this computer, do productivity work, and will do Auto Cad work as well as im a future engineering student. My parents are buying me a laptop and I need something for Auto Cad when I wont be able to get to my desktop so I am getting this laptop. https://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-rog-gu501gm-15-6-laptop-intel-core-i7-16gb-memory-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-1tb-hybrid-drive-128gb-ssd-brushed-black/6207900.p?skuId=6207900

[grimreeper132]

34 minutes ago, Mike2121 said:

I will give my full in depth reply. I am going off to college next year. I game on this computer, do productivity work, and will do Auto Cad work as well as im a future engineering student. My parents are buying me a laptop and I need something for Auto Cad when I wont be able to get to my desktop so I am getting this laptop. https://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-rog-gu501gm-15-6-laptop-intel-core-i7-16gb-memory-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-1tb-hybrid-drive-128gb-ssd-brushed-black/6207900.p?skuId=6207900

the CPU in that laptop is better than the 8100, especially in multi threaded productivity work, and CAD, and for stuff like matlab they will be both about the same but yea I would say that if your getting that laptop get that laptop and a couple of screens to dock it to at a desk rather than getting a desktop as well, cause with the budget you have for the desktop it seams anything you will get is about on par with laptop anyways CPU wise. 

 

(also out of curriosity what Engineering couse is it??? Electrical, Mechanical, civil (if you say civil, as an non-civil engineer I will by law need to comment there ) combination??? (I'm Electrical and Mechanical))

[Mike2121]

12 hours ago, grimreeper132 said:

the CPU in that laptop is better than the 8100, especially in multi threaded productivity work, and CAD, and for stuff like matlab they will be both about the same but yea I would say that if your getting that laptop get that laptop and a couple of screens to dock it to at a desk rather than getting a desktop as well, cause with the budget you have for the desktop it seams anything you will get is about on par with laptop anyways CPU wise. 

 

(also out of curriosity what Engineering couse is it??? Electrical, Mechanical, civil (if you say civil, as an non-civil engineer I will by law need to comment there ) combination??? (I'm Electrical and Mechanical))

I'm going into mechanical engineering. I built the PC to game but don't game much. My parents are buying me a laptop for college though so I decided on that one as they only want to buy from bestbuy. I actually will be taking a class freshman fall semester on Matlab. Honestly don't even know if I will like engineering. I just enjoy solving problems in math as well in physics.

[grimreeper132]

2 minutes ago, Mike2121 said:

I'm going into mechanical engineering. I built the PC to game but don't game much. My parents are buying me a laptop for college though so I decided on that one as they only want to buy from bestbuy. I actually will be taking a class freshman fall semester on Matlab. Honestly don't even know if I will like engineering. I just enjoy solving problems in math as well in physics.

Uni/college doesn't always paint an accurate image of engineering but in general it is quite fun, And yea take the class on matlab as may places do use it, and it's not too hard to use. PC wise if you are willing to do everything on your laptop CAD, matlab, etc.then I would just have that laptop as you work PC as it's as good as what you wanna build for that and it's portable and means you don't need two work PCs (cause I think that was what you were saying). Also Engineering is sorta like solving problems in maths and physics, but especially in (many) real life engineering you need to solve some really strange problems you won't expect, and not prepared for, and google is always going to be your best friend

[LilPach]

I basically had the same rig and I upgraded my cpu, upgraded my g4560 because even with hyper threading 2 cores isn’t enough. I never notice my ram Usage go over 70% and I have 8gb I think cpu or ssd is the way to go.

[Mike2121]

5 hours ago, grimreeper132 said:

Uni/college doesn't always paint an accurate image of engineering but in general it is quite fun, And yea take the class on matlab as may places do use it, and it's not too hard to use. PC wise if you are willing to do everything on your laptop CAD, matlab, etc.then I would just have that laptop as you work PC as it's as good as what you wanna build for that and it's portable and means you don't need two work PCs (cause I think that was what you were saying). Also Engineering is sorta like solving problems in maths and physics, but especially in (many) real life engineering you need to solve some really strange problems you won't expect, and not prepared for, and google is always going to be your best friend

Yeah I shadowed a engineer and basically it's about using your critical thinking skills to solve problembs. I just suck with AutoCAD programs so that will be fun.