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522Gage

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I am hoping to upgrade my computer this year for Christmas and I wanted to know what I could/should upgrade first. I built this computer last Christmas as my first ever computer build, and my first gaming PC. It runs pretty well I just wanted to upgrade it. This is my current build:

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/cnb37P

The only thing I have noticed, is I get, every now and then, where my CPU gets a really high usage percentage in the high 80s and in the 90s when I run certain games, such as BO3, I dont really know if this is an issue but I just thought I would say.

Also quick question and side note, my Disk Usage on my Hard Drive goes up to 100% a lot of the time while my SSD never gets any usage on it. I'm not sure why, did I forget to do something when I built my computer?
 
What isn't it doing that you'd like it to? It seems like a decent enough build, if you aren't getting enough FPS then look at a GPU upgrade.
 
Save your money for next year new GPU's. Upgrading just because it's fun to upgrade costs money.

522Gage said:
The only thing I have noticed, is I get, every now and then, where my CPU gets a really high usage percentage in the high 80s and in the 90s when I run certain games, such as BO3, I dont really know if this is an issue but I just thought I would say.
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If those games use over 3 CPU cores, then that's normal and not an issue. Good thing that your CPU gets load and not many cores just idle.
 
beers said:
What isn't it doing that you'd like it to? It seems like a decent enough build, if you aren't getting enough FPS then look at a GPU upgrade.
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I would just like it to be a little faster and as I mentioned with the CPU I just wanted to make sure that wasn't an issue also.
 
522Gage said:
Also quick question and side note, my Disk Usage on my Hard Drive goes up to 100% a lot of the time while my SSD never gets any usage on it. I'm not sure why, did I forget to do something when I built my computer?
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Is windows installed to your SSD or hard drive? I would assume you installed your games to the hard drive? If so, thats why the hard drive has high disk activity.
 
johnb35 said:
Is windows installed to your SSD or hard drive? I would assume you installed your games to the hard drive? If so, thats why the hard drive has high disk activity.
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It is on my Hard Drive. So, is there not supposed to be anything on my SSD?
 
You should have installed windows to your SSD drive. Thats the whole purpose of the SSD, faster bootup time and faster application loading.
 
So there is nothing on the SSD right now? You can clone the OS partition from the hard drive to the SSD as long as the windows partition is the same or smaller then the size of the SSD drive. But it just may be simpler to just do a fresh install to the SSD.
 
johnb35 said:
So there is nothing on the SSD right now? You can clone the OS partition from the hard drive to the SSD as long as the windows partition is the same or smaller then the size of the SSD drive. But it just may be simpler to just do a fresh install to the SSD.
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I just upgraded to Windows 10 so I don't have an install code for Windows. Sorry for asking so many questions but could you tell me or direct me to somewhere where I could see about doing so.
 
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