# PC Upgrades - worth it or not.

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 19, 2014, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pc-upgrades-worth-it-or-not/705040 "2014-11-19T03:17:04Z")\
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> [@control-z](#):
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> I agree on a SSD and video card.
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> I recently got an Asus GTX 750 Ti 2GB for $140 from Amazon.
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> I agree on SSD to an extent, but it only sped up games on my system there were disk intensive, like Arma3 and Planetside 2. Basically if you’re running a game or application and see the hard drive light solid or blinking a lot, it could benefit from a SSD. It will also speed up the system in general if it’s your boot drive.

The 750 Ti is a great card, but it’s not much of an upgrade from the 560 Ti (which was a great card in its time). It’s far more power-efficient and less noisy, but in terms of raw performance it doesn’t add all that much.

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