New Desktop Advice Please

greyteam1959

Update from the OP.
Thanks for all the ideas everyone.
Decided not to buy the pc that I linked too originally & after considering all your thoughts went for this SSD.
Crucial MX500 1 TB CT1000MX500SSD1-Up to 560 MB/s (3D NAND, SATA, 2.5 Inch, Internal SSD), Black 
I will fit that & see if my pc performs a bit better.
Will probably then look at some second-hand RAM, which I never knew you could buy until now.

interstellaflyer

greyteam1959 said:

Update from the OP.
Thanks for all the ideas everyone.
Decided not to buy the pc that I linked too originally & after considering all your thoughts went for this SSD.
Crucial MX500 1 TB CT1000MX500SSD1-Up to 560 MB/s (3D NAND, SATA, 2.5 Inch, Internal SSD), Black 
I will fit that & see if my pc performs a bit better.
Will probably then look at some second-hand RAM, which I never knew you could buy until now.

Personally I'd have gone for a lower capacity SSD and used the original HDD as secondary drive that way you can do  a fresh windows install on the SSD but still access all the stuff you already have on your old HDD

OnlyTheBestWillDo

interstellaflyer said:

greyteam1959 said:

Update from the OP.
Thanks for all the ideas everyone.
Decided not to buy the pc that I linked too originally & after considering all your thoughts went for this SSD.
Crucial MX500 1 TB CT1000MX500SSD1-Up to 560 MB/s (3D NAND, SATA, 2.5 Inch, Internal SSD), Black 
I will fit that & see if my pc performs a bit better.
Will probably then look at some second-hand RAM, which I never knew you could buy until now.

Personally I'd have gone for a lower capacity SSD and used the original HDD as secondary drive that way you can do  a fresh windows install on the SSD but still access all the stuff you already have on your old HDD

I suspect the OP will go against good advice and attempt to clone his current drive...

GDB2222

OnlyTheBestWillDo said:

interstellaflyer said:

greyteam1959 said:

Update from the OP.
Thanks for all the ideas everyone.
Decided not to buy the pc that I linked too originally & after considering all your thoughts went for this SSD.
Crucial MX500 1 TB CT1000MX500SSD1-Up to 560 MB/s (3D NAND, SATA, 2.5 Inch, Internal SSD), Black 
I will fit that & see if my pc performs a bit better.
Will probably then look at some second-hand RAM, which I never knew you could buy until now.

Personally I'd have gone for a lower capacity SSD and used the original HDD as secondary drive that way you can do  a fresh windows install on the SSD but still access all the stuff you already have on your old HDD

I suspect the OP will go against good advice and attempt to clone his current drive...

I’ve always taken an upgrade as an opportunity to reinstall windows and all my programs. However, it’s a lot less trouble just to do a clone. 

getmore4less

Can do both, clone see how much quicker it is, check out any new memory.

Then start again with a fresh install and work through the installation of updates and any progs being used.

greyteam1959

OnlyTheBestWillDo said:

interstellaflyer said:

greyteam1959 said:

Update from the OP.
Thanks for all the ideas everyone.
Decided not to buy the pc that I linked too originally & after considering all your thoughts went for this SSD.
Crucial MX500 1 TB CT1000MX500SSD1-Up to 560 MB/s (3D NAND, SATA, 2.5 Inch, Internal SSD), Black 
I will fit that & see if my pc performs a bit better.
Will probably then look at some second-hand RAM, which I never knew you could buy until now.

Personally I'd have gone for a lower capacity SSD and used the original HDD as secondary drive that way you can do  a fresh windows install on the SSD but still access all the stuff you already have on your old HDD

I suspect the OP will go against good advice and attempt to clone his current drive...

Yes you suspect right.
For those that are not quite as computer savvy as you, doing as fresh install of Windows is not just as simple as you possibly infer 

interstellaflyer

greyteam1959 said:

OnlyTheBestWillDo said:

interstellaflyer said:

greyteam1959 said:

Update from the OP.
Thanks for all the ideas everyone.
Decided not to buy the pc that I linked too originally & after considering all your thoughts went for this SSD.
Crucial MX500 1 TB CT1000MX500SSD1-Up to 560 MB/s (3D NAND, SATA, 2.5 Inch, Internal SSD), Black 
I will fit that & see if my pc performs a bit better.
Will probably then look at some second-hand RAM, which I never knew you could buy until now.

Personally I'd have gone for a lower capacity SSD and used the original HDD as secondary drive that way you can do  a fresh windows install on the SSD but still access all the stuff you already have on your old HDD

I suspect the OP will go against good advice and attempt to clone his current drive...

Yes you suspect right.
For those that are not quite as computer savvy as you, doing as fresh install of Windows is not just as simple as you possibly infer 

Doing a fresh install is very easy, probably just as easy as using the cloning software

googler

For me, it's a clean install every time, as opposed to cloning. 

getmore4less

interstellaflyer said:

greyteam1959 said:

OnlyTheBestWillDo said:

interstellaflyer said:

greyteam1959 said:

Update from the OP.
Thanks for all the ideas everyone.
Decided not to buy the pc that I linked too originally & after considering all your thoughts went for this SSD.
Crucial MX500 1 TB CT1000MX500SSD1-Up to 560 MB/s (3D NAND, SATA, 2.5 Inch, Internal SSD), Black 
I will fit that & see if my pc performs a bit better.
Will probably then look at some second-hand RAM, which I never knew you could buy until now.

Personally I'd have gone for a lower capacity SSD and used the original HDD as secondary drive that way you can do  a fresh windows install on the SSD but still access all the stuff you already have on your old HDD

I suspect the OP will go against good advice and attempt to clone his current drive...

Yes you suspect right.
For those that are not quite as computer savvy as you, doing as fresh install of Windows is not just as simple as you possibly infer 

Doing a fresh install is very easy, probably just as easy as using the cloning software

That assumes the OP has something suitable to put the image on.

Not everyone has suitable media hanging around, I didn't when I did mine.

GDB2222

The big issue can be finding the product keys.