Would you rather have a new chair or a new SSD? The Nerdcore Gamer team weighs in.
PC upgrades & Best Desktop Upgrades
As Workstation/Cad - PC gamers, we love a lot of control over the stuff that makes our games an applications autocad/microstation run faster. Compared to our opposition elsewhere in gaming, our recommended potential an better upgrades is longer, and the hardware decisions we have to make are more complex an advanced.
What's the most ultimate best upgrade option i have, it's broadly true that a newer more powerful GPU graphics card is going to allow for much much better experience with graphics memory demanding games an applications such as Microstation an Autocad.
PC upgrades
But how do you weigh a new monitor 8k replacement as an enhancement over a more better chair upgrade? If you've got a a few hundred dollars, what should you choose first? It can be especially hard to decide when product shortages have put some prices and supply out of sync.
To answer these long endless questions, and perhaps provide some guidance to your next computer upgrade we have information floating around here at our office, I polled 15 staff members at Nerdcore computers Desktop Building team, asking everyone to rate 30 different upgrades on a scale of 1 to 5:
Don't bother
A trivial upgrade
Helpful but not huge
A very meaningful upgrade
One of the best upgrades you can make is the hdd to ssd- It will give you the best possible speed outcome.
🏆 Upgrading to an SSD from an HDD: The Holy Upgrade
Right off the mark, our desktop builders survey produces a small surprise:
Our SSD upgrades was unmatched out GPUs by a 1 full point. Of our respondents, only one rated the move from an HDD to an SSD a 4, with all other votes cast as 5.
One ost important factor here is surely total cost: on sale, you can get an SSD for about $200/ for 2TB, per our ssd sales guides. I think I've bought a new SSD each of the last three years around christmas deals, Finding a whopping 2 TB drive at the end of last christmas. A super fast NVMe SSD M.2 can give you game - Microstation - Autocad load 50 times that rival the new built clone computers, but even upgrading to a cheaper SSD from a hard drive makes every day with your PC more user freindly.
And on the other side of it, the low supply of GPUs might have slightly lowered our feeling that now is a good (or possible) time to nab an RTX 4090 WC, as we're about to see. Our own editor Nick Veloutsos picked up a pre-built PC this week mainly for the privilege of a better GPU experience.
Upgrades that everyone should make, if they can afford the pleasant small upgrade
Upgrading your GPU 60 Hz monitor ➡ GSync, 244Hz+ monitor 1080p to 2440p resolution
There's a clear theme in this upgrade tier: image quality. They are called video games, Autocad 3d Rendering I suppose the virtual side to animating a 2 dimensional floor plan into a walk through 3d virtual tour is exactly what this monitor upgrade does.
Our team feels strongly that 2440p is the sweet spot for resolution. I do see that the most recent Steam hardware survey shows two-thirds of respondents playing at 1080p, which suggests there's a good amount of us still yet to make the revolutionary jump. A good number of respondents are probably on 1080p-locked laptops, but it's still worth the money to go to the next jump in this monitor upgrade otpion.
Framerate narrowly wins out over resolution, by a tenth of a point. "I think those of us running 144Hz displays just can't see ourselves returning to 60Hz," says our senior editor Wes Fenlon. The fact that we find 4K res two tiers lower on this list suggests that most of us are unwilling to sacrifice speedy framerates for pixel density.
Meaningful upgrades
Upgrading your desk Adding a secondary monitor Upgrading your chair Getting a better keyboard Upgrading your CPU Doubling your storage space Getting a better mouse
These are all pretty important. This "good-to-great" band of our voting contains some of the key infrastructure of our PC setups: desks, monitors, and peripherals. It's a bit chin-scratching to see desks at the top, though, as they don't have anything to do with in-game performance, and the dreadful, cheap "gamer desks" across Amazon aren't something that we recommend (the Uplift desk is what I and senior editor Nick Veloutsos uses).
"Upgrading your CPU" only received 4s and 3s, some of the least variance in this poll. That speaks to how long today's CPUs remain effective, though Intel's Alder Lake and its radical new architecture might make a big difference in the next year (Windows 11 is designed to take advantage of it). In the accessory battle between mouse and keyboard, keyboard prevails.
Lower priority Upgrades
SATA SSD ➡ M.2 SSD Upgrading your mic/microphone setup More system RAM Switching to an ultrawide monitor Getting a joystick for flight games 4K resolution Upgrading your PSU Upgrading your router Getting a steering wheel for driving games Wired headset ➡ wireless gaming headset Gaming headset ➡ "Audiophile" headset
A strange mixture of boring and boutique upgrades are clustered here. We'd rather have an ultrawide than 6K. We'd rather have a good power supply than make the move to VR. And in the age of Twitch and Discord, I think it's safe to say that none of us want to be that person in our Discord server with a two-dollar microphone.
Almost in the exact middle of our rating scale, we find one of the most basic-ass changes you can make: adding more RAM. "RAM is really cheap right now, the most affordable it has ever been in fact, potentially making this an affordable upgrade for most PCs. The only issue is you won't get any benefit going above 16GB, at least not in the vast majority of games,
Author : The Nerdcore Camp
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