I want to know what I should upgrade

[Zolazy]

My computor needs an upgrade and I want to know what part of my computor needs it the most

I got:

Intel core i5 4460

Nvidia GeForce GTz 960 2GB

8GB DDR3

And no SSD card. What am I most need of?

[Chompman]

Unless you can find a normal priced rx 480 / 580 go for a gtx 1060 6 gb as long as your power supply can run it as everything else will be something you will replace when you get a new cpu and motherboard so unless you can do all 3 the gpu will be the best individual item.

[Big Boom Boom]

GTX 1060 6Gb, the jump was very big unlike meh difference from GTX 760 to GTX 960.

[Aliquis Freedom & Ethnopluralism]

I don't think it's all that out of balance as is. Maybe the GTX 1060 is a decent upgrade as far as relative CPU go, then again the bigger difference you upgrade to the .. bigger the difference =P

Vega shouldn't be too far away, don't know for Volta.
Hold out until the upcoming generation? Pascal has been out for quite some time now.
I'd say possibly wait since you're not in desperate need as is =P

[SpeedyBullet]

2GB of vram is really not alot for the most recent & demanding titles. As the others suggested a GTX 1060 6GB should be a very nice upgrade. Also 8GB of RAM is really minimum, if your motherboard and budget allow it you could place an extra 8GB in there to have some more headroom. And ofc having an SSD is always nice for faster boot & loading times. But yeah GPU is #1 priority to upgrade i'd say.

[upcoast]

Well you've got 3 things to upgrade so figure out your budget and then see what you can buy.

You've got the gpu wanting an upgrade if you can't play at the settings you want, add another 2x8GB same make ddr3 then you'll have 24GB dual channel and pick up a 240-275GB ssd for your OS it'll overall smooth out your PC with ssds having very low seek times.

[vadim]

OP: do NOT increase RAM. You will get nothing from that.

[Chompman]

Diposting pertama kali oleh vadim:

OP: do NOT increase RAM. You will get nothing from that.

You will however it would be a waste if he plans on upgrading the cpu soon as he would want to get better ram then.

[upcoast]

Diposting pertama kali oleh vadim:

OP: do NOT increase RAM. You will get nothing from that.

BF1, RoTR, JC3 are good enough reasons to increase ram if he's planning on keeping the cpu for a while even if he decided to pop an i7 4790k 4ghz in down the road it would be a cheap upgrade even then because ram and mobo are bought and paid for.

TBH, popping in more ram and a GTX1060 6GB even a GTX1070 isn't out of line if he plans on gaming for a while yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qewad2My_k

There's still mileage in the LGA1150 platform.

What you're telling him is wrong.

[vadim]

I guess, OP wants to get better FPS in games. The increase in RAM practically does not affect average FPS. At least in vast majority games.
http://lifehacker.com/performance-tests-show-that-16gb-of-ram-is-overkill-1724827429 (2 y.o. article)
http://www.gamersnexus.net/game-bench/2677-bf1-ram-benchmark-frequency-8gb-enough/page-2

[Aliquis Freedom & Ethnopluralism]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Chompman:

Diposting pertama kali oleh vadim:

OP: do NOT increase RAM. You will get nothing from that.

You will however it would be a waste if he plans on upgrading the cpu soon as he would want to get better ram then.

Or at-least DDR4 instead. "Better", maybe.

[SoldierScar]

Diposting pertama kali oleh vadim:

OP: do NOT increase RAM. You will get nothing from that.

Such a bs, even new games have 12-16gb of ram in the system requirements, for me stuttering in 2 years old maxed out gta v was enough reason to get 8 gigs more.

[vadim]

Diposting pertama kali oleh SoldierScar:

Such a bs, even new games have 12-16gb of ram in the system requirements, for me stuttering in 2 years old maxed out gta v was enough reason to get 8 gigs more.

Educate yourself a bit, look at GTA V test: http://www.techspot.com/article/1043-8gb-vs-16gb-ram/page3.html

[SoldierScar]

Diposting pertama kali oleh vadim:

Diposting pertama kali oleh SoldierScar:

Such a bs, even new games have 12-16gb of ram in the system requirements, for me stuttering in 2 years old maxed out gta v was enough reason to get 8 gigs more.

Educate yourself a bit, look at GTA V test: http://www.techspot.com/article/1043-8gb-vs-16gb-ram/page3.html

No i don't care about your reviews, i experienced the problem myself, i had little freezes like every 20 seconds or so and the more i played it was just worse and worse because the game has memory ♥♥♥♥, i put 8gb more and it was gone, i had nothing running in the background it was a fresh windows installation. Just because one person is fine with 8gb of ram doesn't mean it's enough for everybody, every pc is differently configured and the fact stays the same, 8gb is on the edge in new games.

[Aliquis Freedom & Ethnopluralism]

Diposting pertama kali oleh SoldierScar:

Diposting pertama kali oleh vadim:

OP: do NOT increase RAM. You will get nothing from that.

Such a bs, even new games have 12-16gb of ram in the system requirements, for me stuttering in 2 years old maxed out gta v was enough reason to get 8 gigs more.

Diposting pertama kali oleh vadim:

Diposting pertama kali oleh SoldierScar:

Such a bs, even new games have 12-16gb of ram in the system requirements, for me stuttering in 2 years old maxed out gta v was enough reason to get 8 gigs more.

Educate yourself a bit, look at GTA V test: http://www.techspot.com/article/1043-8gb-vs-16gb-ram/page3.html

If there was a processor change at the same time it could be the processor, but otherwise the difference may be that possibly SoldierScar have swap on HDD whereas the techspot article was using SSD, I don't even know if GTA V loads more world data when moving between places / introducing new objects or not. Average frames per second doesn't really say much at all about stuttering, I can have ~100 FPS in CS:GO but yet have 0.35? seconds of complete lock of the game when entering a fire-fight, maybe that affect the average FPS by say 2 frames and the difference between 98 and 100 isn't of course really an issue but having those 0.35 locks every now and then is.

I don't really care for average FPS in general, it's the worst frame-times which matter the most by far, unless they happen at a loading-screen / when there's no action which matter because then I don't care about that either ..

[SoldierScar]

Nope i had the game on SSD Samsung EVO 850.