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Upgrade my 3 years old build (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by telllos@lemmy.world to c/buildapc@lemmy.world
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Hi All,

I have a 2-3 years Old computer and have a little budget for an upgrade.

As I have a 512 Go M.2 SSD, I was thinking about ugrading. But not sure what to do.

  • Buy a 2To Samsung 990 Pro with Heatsink
  • Buy a SATA SSD I would use for storage and Keep my 512Go M.2 for my OS
  • Buy a 1To M.2 SSd and a SATA SSD

What's the best Idea? Anything Else that would be worth upgrading:

AMD Ryzen 5 2600 3400Mhz MSI B450-A PRO MAX GeForce RTX 2080 16 GB of RAM Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB

I'm basicaly only playing Apex, other small games, and doing admin stuff. Thank you for your help

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[–] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What’s your ram situation?

[–] telllos@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This is what I have VENGEANCE® LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 DRAM 3200MHz

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Not bad. Not much to add to that unless you’re using heavy memory virtualized servers, etc.

[–] PlantJam@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Adding 16 GB to that should be cheap if you have four slots. I would recommend doing that along with an upgrade to a 2 TB m2 ssd. You can just clone your old drive to your new drive using clonezilla to fix the partition size.

I did exactly this upgrade a few months ago. I did it so I could stop worrying about running out of storage. Don't expect much performance improvement from the ram and ssd upgrade, though.

For a significant performance upgrade you can get a ryzen 5 5800 or 5800 x3d for a little more. That's the cpu I went with and I've been very happy with it.

Make those upgrades first, then decide if you want to look at upgrading the graphics card. What you have should keep up just fine for now, though, assuming you're not trying to max out unoptomized games.