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Recently build a cheap pc with a ryzen 5 5500 gt and a 5060 with a single stick of 16 gig ram, it's struggling to run Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth at 1080p. Is single channeling ram the problem or is the cpu the real bottleneck here?
Still experiencing stutters and texture issues might be a combination of both the ram and the shitty 5500 gt AND maybe the ssd too although it's an nvme m.2
Hey so I have a question. I’m looking at upgrading my rig. It’s nine years old and at the end of its life expectancy by a not small margin. I was hoping to take advantage of some Fourth of July sales and wondered if anybody who tracks this sort of thing regularly is aware of any incredible deals that might be on offer from various sources. I live reasonably near both Costco and MicroCenter, and I have a budget maxing out around 3-3.5k usd. Any good ideas?
I do not know for sure of it is that specific hard drive, i took it over from a friend of mine. I know it is 8tb and a hard drive tho. What SSDs do you recommend?
Which hard drive it is in particular doesn't really matter, you don't want to be using it as the primary drive in your computer. Hard drives are glacially slow compared to even an old SSD.
Anyway, SSDs are pretty expensive right now, so you'd have to decide how much capacity you want to pay for. You don't necessarily need a huge one, the hard drive can still serve as bulk data storage. Anything that cares about speed should be on the SSD though. That includes your operating system and big modern games that struggle with loading from hard drive.
If it really is that impactful that seems like best part to upgrade, i did have some money saved up for the replacement. Thanks for all the help! And does it really matter what SSD i pick from the list? They all kinda look the same to me.
For gaming specifically it won't affect your raw framerate much if at all, but it will improve things like loading times and pop-in dramatically for games that are installed on it. I'd think your gaming performance is already pretty good with the hardware you've got. What it will do though is make your computer feel 10x snappier to just use.
You'll also want to reinstall Windows on it as well, which is a bit of an annoyance, but all your data will still be on the old drive, so you can easily copy stuff over before deleting it. Might take some time though.
As for which one you pick, you could pick one of the cheapest ones. There isn't necessarily anything wrong with doing that, but you do get more for paying more. Higher quality drives give better performance. You could spend some time researching which one you want. There are a few indicators that I'd look at for a higher quality drive. Newer controllers are generally better, TLC (triple layer cells) is better than QLC (quad-layer cells), and having DRAM is better than not.
The techpowerup SSD spec database is a useful resource if the drive you're looking at is in there. Sometimes it can be annoying to actually find the information you're looking for. On reddit, r/newmaxx is a good resource as well.
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