NEed help picking between ram or a new drive

[irfannasim1812]

Not sure which to upgrade, basically i have a ryzen 1700 oc to 3.9 at 1.325 volts stable, and am currently using an rx 580(i know i know, i am a peasent) and am not sure whether to upgrade storage or ram first, i plan to either go from my 128 gb peasent ssd to a 512 gb 970 evo or to upgrade my 8gb ballistic sport(2400mhz) to full 16gb 3200mhz trident z Rgb goodness(is it compatible with my cpu btw?) . i thought about spending the money to upgrade my gpu, but i decided i will wait for navi instead (no i will never be on team green). ideally the last thing i upgrade should be my gpu because i think my cpu should last for at least 4 years.... so which should it be ram or nvme?

Edit: forgot to mention, i also have a 1tb hdd for my games and stuff, would that affect anything when i transfer my files from the ssd to the nvme ssd?

 

[feelinfroggy777]

I would hold on to your 128gb SSD for now. Your games will run fine on your HDD and 128gb is plenty for the OS and will keep your system snappy. I would definitely go for a 3200mhz RAM kit. You will see positive performance impacts

Additionally, SSD's have gotten very affordable and for a gaming rig, you really don't need an expensive NVMe SSD. You just wont see a performance impact. When I went form a 850 EVO to a 960 EVO, I saw little to no performance improvement in my system. You may want to consider a Crucial MX500 SATA SSD. You can get a 500gb drive in the US for pretty cheap.

 

[irfannasim1812]

I would hold on to your 128gb SSD for now. Your games will run fine on your HDD and 128gb is plenty for the OS and will keep your system snappy. I would definitely go for a 3200mhz RAM kit. You will see positive performance impacts

Additionally, SSD's have gotten very affordable and for a gaming rig, you really don't need an expensive NVMe SSD. You just wont see a performance impact. When I went form a 850 EVO to a 960 EVO, I saw little to no performance improvement in my system. You may want to consider a Crucial MX500 SATA SSD. You can get a 500gb drive in the US for pretty cheap.

thanks for the help, are you saying that instead of ever upgrading my sata ssd i should just upgrade it to a larger sata ssd eventually? one with faster read write speeds?

 

[feelinfroggy777]

I am saying that you wont be able to tell a difference between a good SATA SSD and a NVMe SSD for a gaming rig. If you are performing certain processes such as moving large amounts of data from one drive to another, then an NVMe SSD will make a difference. But for a gaming rig, you are not moving large amounts of data as one would with a video editing rig. Even downloading games from steam you are limited to the download speed which is much lower then even budget SSDs.

So if it is not going to make a difference, then why spend more money on something that you wont get any benefit from.