I have intel i7 11370H 3GHZ 4 core
16 GB 4800 says dual channel but I doubt it.
512GB M.2 NVMe™ PCIe® 3.0 SSD
NVIDIA 3060M
https://www.asus.com/laptops/for-gaming/tuf-gaming/asus-tuf-dash-f15-2022/techspec/
Would upgrading RAM to 32gb or getting a new SSD be better? I don’t understand ram or SSD.
ssd is just the storage of your computer like how many games you can put into it
Ram is more junk you can have running and intensive gaming going with lots of windows up while streaming something and being in discord, etc.
Have you made sure all of your memory is working?
I’d probably go with the SSD.
ram, 16gb is not enough in 2022-2023
drive size and ram are 2 things that you’re never going to kick yourself for having too much of
Seconded. Especially for a game with lots of loading screens. You’ll notice the difference in loading times.
Edit: never mind, you already have an SSD lol
It reads to me like they already have an m.2 ssd, and would be upgradeing from a 512 GB to a 1TB
You’ll need to tell us what symptom you are trying to fix. 16GB of RAM (memory) is pretty respectable. Your SSD is what allows the game (and everything else) to run and load faster than it would on a conventional “platter” hard drive. But 512GB is a pretty small size drive - so are you running out of room?
If you already have an SSD, I wouldn’t worry about getting another. RAM is more useful in a lot of things so I’d prioritize that. If you’re pressed for space you can get a HD and store the OS on it, while keeping the game on the SSD for the enhanced load times if you don’t mind waiting longer for your OS to boot.
But, yeah. RAM. 16 GB is alright but more never hurts if you like multitasking!
My guess would be nether will provide a noticeable performance improvement for WoW. Already on an SSD and 16GB is enough ram unless you’re running lots of other memory hogs at the same time.
So if you want to run more things, I’d get the ram. If you want more storage space, get the SSD. Or put the money in the piggy bank for a new computer eventually.
Small SSD, I’d get a bigger one.
Next I’d get 32GB RAM.
Switching to SSDs has a knock-on effect that really improves the smoothness of the game. Your system isn’t working nearly as hard to locate and pull files from your fragmented spinning drive. I was pretty surprised at how much of a difference it made.
SSD. It helps with load times immensely on everything.
Especially for $100 nets you a 2TB sata drive.
https://www.amazon.com/Silicon-Power-Performance-Internal-SP002TBSS3A55S25/dp/B07Q37V1C9
I’d say it’s the bare minimum at the moment, but it should be fine for all games as long as you aren’t running alot of background processes.
But 32gigs of RAM would safely future proof your computer for quite a while.
If you’re running out of space on your SSD, you need a bigger one (or a second one). 512GB is on the small side IF you have a lot of games, photos, videos, etc. taking up space. If your dive is more than 70% full, then upgrading the SSD is #1 priority.
16GB of RAM is fine as long as you’re running 1-3 programs at a time. I have 16GB of RAM and run Chrome, Excel, WoW, and Discord simultaneously with no issues. IF you look at your resource monitor and see a ton of page faults, then your system doesn’t have enough RAM for what you’re doing and is swapping some executables to the page file on the SSD while it brings in others off the page file as you alt-tab among programs. If that’s your situation then RAM is your #1 priority (this seems unlikely).
To check how full your SSD is, use the Windows Key + E and open Explorer. Right-click on your C: drive and click Properties. If the your “Used space” is greater than 360 GB, you need a new drive to get more free space.
To check how many RAM<–>SSD page faults you’re getting go to the Start Menu / Windows Administrative Tools / Resource Monitor. Click the Memory tab (between CPU and Disk) and sort by “Hard Faults/sec” and watch the bottom-right meter. If it’s faulting often (lots of spikes of more than 35-50), you need more RAM. The Resource Monitor should look like the image below. Note that WoW Pre-Patch is taking 9.6 GB or RAM for me… The Windows Page file is also included in that 75% used metric–it seems full, but unless you’re getting constant page faults, it’s fine.
Neither are going to improve game wise much , but I would go for ram since you already got an SSD.
CPU, RAM. In other words, build a PC
My priorities/recommendations;
32GB system memory - bare min.
3060 RTX or better video card.
4TB storage (HDD, no need for SSD). And if you go for a HDD, may as well do 8TB.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
This should last for a good 4 years.
32gb RAM is a nice upgrade. I ran 16gb for a long time but it started to get a little limiting, no regrets when I got a new 32gb kit last year. It sounds like the SSD is probably already sufficient for WoW. There are some NVMe drives that are really cheap and crappy with no DRAM cache, but that’s more a write speed problem. Read speed is going to be pretty decent with any modern SSD.
Why is their no point for an ssd? Thats one of the dumbest things I heard in a bit for computer spec help.