what would you upgrade first.

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hi guys i am looking to upgrade my rig. i am a gamer not a streamer or anything, havnt got exactly the most amount of money so i am looking for your advice on what to upgrade first as i will only be able to afford one thing at a time. i have recently posted on here about a problem i have had with my current pc and that seems to be settled. so now looking for upgrades, some have said ram/SDD but which one first and to what?

my current set up..

cpu - AMD ryzen 7 1800x

mbd - gigabyte ab350

gpu - radeon rx580 8gb

storage - seagate 2tb hybrid drive

8gb of ram (2x4) corsair lbx 3000mhz


any thoughts on what to upgrade first and to what, would be greatly appreciated.

i have updated this machine for the past 8 years so not sure whats good and what isnt anymore lol. thanks for any help :)
 
A SSD will make startup and game loading times much, much faster.

A RAM upgrade - another 8 GB will help prevent slowdowns within games when the PC starts paging. You can test this by running Task Manager on a second monitor and monitoring memory use: if you exceed 8 GB you're paging to disk.

The SSD should be your first upgrade as even without the RAM upgrade, paging will be much faster.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £82.68 (includes shipping: £8.70)​
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240 GB is the minimum size I'd recommend given the large sizes of today's games; you should go for 500 GB or more.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £100.68 (includes shipping: £8.70)​
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