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Upgrade my 3 years old build (self.buildapc)

submitted 11 months ago by telllos to c/buildapc

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Hi All,

I have a 2-3 years Old computer and have a little budget for an upgrade.

As I have a 512 Go M.2 SSD, I was thinking about ugrading. But not sure what to do.

Buy a 2To Samsung 990 Pro with Heatsink
Buy a SATA SSD I would use for storage and Keep my 512Go M.2 for my OS
Buy a 1To M.2 SSd and a SATA SSD

What's the best Idea? Anything Else that would be worth upgrading:

AMD Ryzen 5 2600 3400Mhz MSI B450-A PRO MAX GeForce RTX 2080 16 GB of RAM Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB

I'm basicaly only playing Apex, other small games, and doing admin stuff. Thank you for your help

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[–] bazsy 1 points 10 months ago

For the storage you have an additional option: converting a PCIe slot to M.2 Nvme is possible with a passive addin card. This way you could keep the current OS drive and add a 2TB m.2 instead of a SATA one. Since M.2s are quite cheap I went this route last year. Just be warned that secondary x16 slots are slower: it looks like 2.0 x4 for the b450-a pro max.