Advice on PC upgrade

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Today's beverage of choice is JD's honey liquor in my morning coffee. Yum!
Sounds like a delicious choice. Enjoy my friend. :)

I have 16GB. I would recommend 32.
Having 32Gb of RAM will be a good thing, but I'd wait to have that on the new rig so that it won't just be a battery over a wound that needs stitches.
 

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The new M.2 drives are way faster than the previous generation of SSD which will mean new motherboard to support it. If I were you I'd save your money and do a complete system rebuild when you have the money for all the best, or one step down from that.
M.2 =/= faster. M.2 is just a form factor. NVMe are the fast bois, they also have nearly no benefit for gaming (although I haven't tested if it makes a difference for SC in particular).

I would just wait to swap the CPU/mobo/RAM, maybe when Intel moves to a thinner chip (I think 10nm is the next one they're working on?) or when Ryzen 3000 comes out.
 

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M.2 =/= faster. M.2 is just a form factor. NVMe are the fast bois, they also have nearly no benefit for gaming (although I haven't tested if it makes a difference for SC in particular).

I would just wait to swap the CPU/mobo/RAM, maybe when Intel moves to a thinner chip (I think 10nm is the next one they're working on?) or when Ryzen 3000 comes out.
M.2 drives are advertised with at least 4x the random read/write speed of the last generation of SSDs so I'm not sure where you're getting that info.

Comparing https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA12K7968212&Description=m.2&cm_re=m.2-_-20-147-690-_-Product and https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147684&Description=samsung pro ssd&cm_re=samsung_pro_ssd-_-20-147-684-_-Product or any of the other SSDs to M.2 drives gives you about the same info.
 

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M.2 drives are advertised with at least 4x the random read/write speed of the last generation of SSDs so I'm not sure where you're getting that info.

Comparing https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA12K7968212&Description=m.2&cm_re=m.2-_-20-147-690-_-Product and https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147684&Description=samsung pro ssd&cm_re=samsung_pro_ssd-_-20-147-684-_-Product or any of the other SSDs to M.2 drives gives you about the same info.
M.2 is a form factor standard not a connection standard - luckily most M.2 drives are NVME and thus faster - for a description see here https://www.velocitymicro.com/blog/nvme-vs-m-2-vs-sata-whats-the-difference/
 

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M.2 drives are advertised with at least 4x the random read/write speed of the last generation of SSDs so I'm not sure where you're getting that info.

Comparing https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA12K7968212&Description=m.2&cm_re=m.2-_-20-147-690-_-Product and https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147684&Description=samsung pro ssd&cm_re=samsung_pro_ssd-_-20-147-684-_-Product or any of the other SSDs to M.2 drives gives you about the same info.
That's a NVMe drive, yes.

NVMe just happens to only come in M.2 (I think they're PCI-E too)

Check out the 860 Evo and Crucial MX 500 and other drives like that. Those are regular SATA drives, but can be got in an M.2 form. M.2 =/= NVMe.
 

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That's a NVMe drive, yes.

NVMe just happens to only come in M.2 (I think they're PCI-E too)

Check out the 860 Evo and Crucial MX 500 and other drives like that. Those are regular SATA drives, but can be got in an M.2 form. M.2 =/= NVMe.

Okay I get you now. I've only seen M.2 and PCIe NVMe drives and last I checked the PCIe has some drawbacks, so they were all just M.2 is latest and greatest to me... Until now!
 
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