Upgrading MSI X99A Gaming 9 ACK ATXw/USB 3.1

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I purchased this about 1year ago I think it's the hard drive but gaming and application performance isn't where I want it to be any suggestions on how to upgrade and increase performance would be greatly appreciated.




CAS: LEPA Lenyx E-ATX Gaming Case w/ Black Rubber Coating Skin, USB 3.0, 2.5" Hot-Swap, 2x 200mm & 140mm Fans [+51]
CD: LG 14X Internal Blu-ray Burner, BD-RE, 3D Playback DVD+RW Combo Drive (Black Color)
COOLANT: Standard Coolant
CPU: Intel(R) Core™ i7-5820K Six-Core 3.30GHz 15MB Intel Smart Cache LGA2011-V3
CS_FAN: Default case fans
FAN: Asetek 550LC 120mm Liquid Cooling CPU Cooler - Extreme Cooling Performance (Single Standard 120MM Fan)
HDD: 2TB (2TBx1) SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Drive)
IUSB: Built-in USB 2.0 Ports
MEMORY: 16GB (4GBx4) DDR4/2400MHz Quad Channel Memory (Corsair or Major Brand)
MOTHERBOARD: MSI X99A GAMING 9 ACK ATX w/ USB 3.1, 802.11 WIFI+BT 4.0, Killer GbLAN, 5x Gen3 PCIe x16, 1x M.2, 8x SATA 6Gb/s, 2x SATA Express (All Venom OC Certified) [+221]
Monitor Asus PB328Q 2560x1440
NETWORK: Onboard Gigabit LAN Network
OS: Windows10
No Overclocking
POWERSUPPLY: 600 Watts - Standard 80 Plus Certified Power Supply - SLI/CrossFireX Ready
SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 (Maxwell) [+249] (Single Card)

 

[Stysner]

Depends on what you mean, do you think it doesn't run as well as it should, or do you want it to be even faster?

SSDs won't speed up games (except loading times if you install your games on it), but an SSD would kind of be standard on a high-end build like yours.

Are you sure it does run to spec otherwise? Try UserBenchmark.com, click download, run the test. Check if everything runs OK (average or higher). If it does, you are either expecting too much or running bad games / applications (there are games and applications that are so badly coded that it doesn't run smooth on the best of systems).

But yeah, SSD would be a good investment. I myself have a Samsung 850 Evo 256GB, it's cheap and performs really well.

Other than that, your system is beast, upgrading any other components is just throwing away money, for gaming and almost all applications that PC is top-of-the-line, and you'll get serious diminishing returns for better hardware, the price would go through the roof for minimal increase in performance.