what to upgrade next?

magge000

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I wonder what i should upgrade next? thank you for answer 😀

Power Supply: CORSAIR AX Series AX860 860W
OS: Windows 10 Home x64
Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z
CPU: AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core
RAM: Vengeance® Pro Series — 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 DRAM 2400MHz
Memory: Samsung SSD 120GB / Seagate Desktop HDD 1TB
Video Card 1: ASUS GeForce GTX 970 TURBO OC 4GB
Video Card 2: ASUS Radeon R9 290 4GB DirectCU II OC
 
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Three ways of looking at this. The only upgrades that make any sense are

1. Newer, higher tiered GPU card, if you plan to game at 1440p or higher. If not, no reason really to upgrade. Both of those cards are capable of respectable 1080p gaming. At 1440p or higher, you'll be moving some sliders to the left.

2. CPU and motherboard. It's a high end configuration, from almost four years ago. In 90% of games and applications, even a Skylake i3 will outperform that FX setup.

3. Bigger SSD. 120GB gets eaten quickly if you are installing games to it, or have many applications installed. Two AAA games and the operating system will eat up most of a 120GB SSD. 240GB or higher SSD gives you a little more breathing room. You could then use the...
Three ways of looking at this. The only upgrades that make any sense are

1. Newer, higher tiered GPU card, if you plan to game at 1440p or higher. If not, no reason really to upgrade. Both of those cards are capable of respectable 1080p gaming. At 1440p or higher, you'll be moving some sliders to the left.

2. CPU and motherboard. It's a high end configuration, from almost four years ago. In 90% of games and applications, even a Skylake i3 will outperform that FX setup.

3. Bigger SSD. 120GB gets eaten quickly if you are installing games to it, or have many applications installed. Two AAA games and the operating system will eat up most of a 120GB SSD. 240GB or higher SSD gives you a little more breathing room. You could then use the 120GB SSD strictly for installing games to, and use the HDD for file and system backups.
 
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