I recently bought a prebuilt system for 855 CAD with an ASUS B650 motherboard, Ryzen 5 8600G, 16GB of DDR5-6000 Crucial memory in a single stick, and a 500GB M.2 NVMe SSD. I also added three terabytes of used 2.5-inch SATA hard drives, a secondhand GTX 980 Ti for 60 CAD, a Thermalright Frozen Warframe CPU cooler for 50 CAD, and some extra case fans. What upgrades would make the most sense next if my goal is to play Cyberpunk 2077 at ultra settings?
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Add a second matching 16GB DDR5 stick as soon as possible. Running one memory stick means single-channel mode, which can noticeably hurt performance, especially with an 8600G. Two 16GB sticks will give you 32GB in dual-channel mode and are a better fit for a demanding game.
The CPU is probably fine to start with, so I wouldn't replace it before the graphics card and memory. The 500GB SSD may also become cramped once you install large modern games; consider adding a larger NVMe SSD later. Keep the hard drives for bulk storage, but use the SSD for Cyberpunk and other games where loading times matter.
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