Gift card for $150 at Newegg and need help deciding what to upgrade!

[Theo524]

So I got a gift card for 180 at Newegg that I won, So sweet deal right. I just need help deciding what I want to do with it now. I'd like to get a decent frame rate in WoW. Shall I upgrade my OS and get some more RAM? Or just stick it in like a GTX 650 TI Boost? What do you all think would be a viable option to sink some money into? Thanks!




OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit
CPU: 3.10 gigahertz AMD FX-8120 Eight-Core (Clocked at 3.7)
RAM: 4GBs
Board: BIOSTAR Group TA970
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Hard Drive: 2 500GB Hard drives
PSU: 500 watt

[Stasis007]

4GB of ram and a SSD drive would be my pick.

You won't notice much (if any) improvement in WoW by upgrading the GPU, although I guess that depends on what resolution you play at.

The ram and SSD will definitely offer a quality of life improvement.

[Toffie]

Without doubt an SSD, more ram wont do you any good in WoW unless you wanna open a ton of chrome tabs.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009NHAEXE/?tag=pcpapi-20

[Theo524]

That'd be too expensive, 32 bit only supports 4gbs. Id have to upgrade my OS too.

Whats the benefits of a SSD vs a video care? TBH I have no idea what a SSD does :I

[Toffie]

Makes everything in WoW feel smoother and spells & NPC's will load faster. Everything will load faster.

Example
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceB9QoiLfJc

What you would need is a new CPU, but you budget is too low for anything decent.

This guy uses a 550 ti and a better CPU and has decent frames.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLzysVPQ_tI

[tielknight]

A SSD like this > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820147188 will help increase load times in anything that is put on it, your OS included.

You could go for a new GPU like the 650ti boost or the HD 7850 if you don't mind your current load times(a SSD will cut most load times in half at least).

[siafu]

SSD upgrade at the end of the day gives u nothing besides faster loading times.
either upgrade memory to 8gb so u can do more tasks at the same time or sell ur current gfx card and buy newer one with the gift+gfxcard money.
if u chose to upgrade memory u need to change ur os i think u can ur or windows key in either 32 or 64bits if not im sure u can get creative with xxxxbay.c..