Asking for help, looking to upgrade PC

I am not sure if it is even worth but if someone could point me to the right direction what should I try upgrading. Primarily used for games like Pubg, Dayz, nothing too crazy. Using with 49inch monitor.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Budget around $500.00

Current PC: PowerSpec® G223 : i5-8400 Processor, MSI B360-A PRO System Board, 32GB Memory: 16GB Intel® Optane™ Memory + 16GB DRAM, 250GB SATA Solid State Drive, 1TB 7200 RPM, NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 1060 PCI Express, 600 Watt 80 Plus.

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  • magarity
    magarity ✭✭✭✭
    First Anniversary 5 Up Votes First Comment First Answer

    What about using the current system that seems slow that you might want to upgrade something?

    That motherboard supports m.2 SSD, so a really big boost might come from getting one of those, say a 1TB model.

    Also, Optane is (was?) a hard drive cache thing as I recall. So, probably saying your system has 32GB of RAM is misleading. It has 16GB as far as Windows knows if I am recalling how Optane works. If that 16GB is just one module, you would get some boost from a second module. Look inside and see if there are one or two RAM modules.

  • Yipi
    Yipi
    First Comment
    edited May 2022

    I looked inside. Looks like I have 2 slots taken, but it seems two more available. looks like it is 8gbx2

  • magarity
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    First Anniversary 5 Up Votes First Comment First Answer

    OK, that means unless you are running so much that the memory gets full, you won't benefit from adding a memory module because you already are using dual channels.

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