Which should I upgrade?

[Vishera]

So, I've come across some cash recently and I ordered a new GPU (GTX 750) and it's pretty good, got $65 left and I was wondering what I should do next:

Upgrade my RAM by buying a second 8GB RAM stick, bumping it up to 16GB and giving me dual channel

OR

Buy an aftermarket cooler and try to overclock the CPU portion of my APU (A8-6800K)


I was considering ordering an A10 APU but decided on getting a separate GPU instead and keeping the A8 as a CPU (wouldn't have been able to get an A10 for CPU only purposes). So which way should I go? Not really sure which would be the better option here.

 

[ATMINSIDE]

What case are you working with?

 

[Vishera]

Rosewill CHALLENGER ATX Mid-Tower Black gaming case

 

[ATMINSIDE]

Windowed or not?

 

[Vishera]

Kind of, it has a bunch of little holes on the side so if you attach a fan to the side panel there'll be an opening for the air to go into/come out of. You can see into it that way

 

[ATMINSIDE]

Okay, so that's the non windowed side panel. I was hoping it wasn't so you could get an NH-D14.
Basically you need to stay under 159mm.

 

[Vishera]

So you're thinking go the overclock route then?

 

[ATMINSIDE]

Well you can't really go wrong here with either option. Are you close to using your full 8GB during normal usage?

 

[Vishera]

Never really checked. I do YouTube videos so it might be a little bit high while I'm recording, since i have the game running at the highest resolution my monitor is capable of (1280x1024) with all the fancy graphics on max, and a recorder going. I also use lightworks for editing/encoding. The reason I said 16GB was because I just thought more might be better and I wanted to get dual channel, I looked at replacing my current 8GB with a 2x4GB kit as well and it's roughly the same amount.

 

[Dlaw]

If your doing video editing, I'd go for the ram.

 

[ATMINSIDE]

Yep, with that usage definitely the RAM.