Just after some advice about my next upgrade

[Gab250]

Alright, so I'm planning the first upgrade for my main PC. Just want to upgrade it to the point of playing some decent games.

Current specs are

AMD Ryzen5 1500X 3.5 Ghz
Gigabyte AB-350-gaming 3 Motherboard
8GB DDR4 Ram
250GB Western Digital SATA SSD
ATI Radeon HD6800 Graphics (1GB on board GDDR5)

I am wondering if I am going to benifet more from a Graphics card upgrade, or weather I am better of to get an M2 Drive, or some more ram first?

Gab

[joezep]

For the SSD drive I would defiantly go with the M2 drive cost the same and no cabling (neater) and if you can afford the SSD M2 MVMe it's 4 x faster than SATA cost is not much more.

For graphics card depends on which game your going to play, a good start is to go to the game web site to see what the minimum graphics card is required.

Joezep

[lsemmens]

What Joezep said. A 1Gb graphics card may well be your bottleneck. 8Gb of RAM might also be close to the wind now-a-days, too.

[dai]

you left the most important component off the list the power supply

[enf]

Not necessarily the MOST important, but it might be if it's too small for a significant graphics upgrade.

[mtv]

Depending on the processing and graphics requirements, you may need to upgrade the entire system, depending on what games you intend to run.

As mentioned, look up the minimum spec requirements for the games you want to play... then add more capacity of everything, as games become more 'hungry' for grunt as later games are released.