What should i upgrade first RAM or HDD

[GhostintheZoid]

My current pc has only recently started struggling with playing games and im trying to figure out what i should upgrade first.

EDIT "i should say that my hdd has 230gb free and my ssd has 45gb free. and when i use google chrome it uses 4.6gb of RAM, whilst the physical ram "Free" coasts on 0-10mb. and when im playing a game like call of duty it jumps up to 6-7gb of RAM and it sometimes stops the game because its run out of memory."

Upgrade/add more RAM or add another HDD.

My Computer Specs:
- Windows 7 Pro 64bit
- Intel Core i7-3770K 3.5GHz 3.90 GHz
- 8 gb Gskill ddr3
- 120GB SPCC SSD
- 1TB WD Black HDD
- Gigabyte Motherboard GA-Z77X-UD3H
- Gigabyte AMD Radeon HD7870 2gb
- BenQ XL2430T
- dvd burner
- 500w psu

 

[IntelTurtleFan]

Your HDD's are fine and even your ram is "ok" for the time being. I would upgrade the graphics card to a 970 or something like that. It would be better for the money use.

 

[ahnilated]

How big of swap space do you have in Windows? You should really never run out of memory unless the game thinks it is running out of video ram.

 

[GhostintheZoid]

I've been running my game on the lowest setting cause i just lag if it on normal.

So the your saying the best option would be to get a better graphics card.

what would be if any be the cheaper option.

 

[GhostintheZoid]

all of my games and most of my data are located on my 1tb drive. and not that many programs other than the operating system are on the ssd.

 

[GhostintheZoid]

When i load up call of duty it loads i either wait or i click play online (happens either way i do it). Then the free physical memory plummets from 1000-0 in about 10 seconds. then i get the out of memory error message, "Out of memory error. You are probably low on hard disk space. (12)"

 

[GhostintheZoid]

Seems to be an Call of Duty Advanced Warfare problem that a lot of people are going through since a previous update. where a lot of people are getting this error message