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Do not upgrade because you have the money.
If you notice low performance, the bottleneck will be your GPU.
Upgrading to an SSD will make everything more responsive and faster for sure. I would not consider it a "bottleneck" as far as gaming goes. My most played games are on my SSD, but pretty much everything else is on an HDD. Besides load times not much of a difference.
If your not getting the gaming performance you want then upgrading the GPU will be the way to go. If you want just generally a more responsive desktop, windows, programs ect then and SSD would be the ticket. Gaming with an SSD will get you faster load times pretty much.
The 6850 should be fine unless your wanting ultra / High settings on the latest games. If turning things down in settings doesnt bother you then grab the SSD.
SSD is a quality of life -upgrade: If you get one, the computer will start faster, programs will launch faster, loading screen, zone transitions, and all other places when the computer will have to load something from hard disk will go faster.
But it will not increase your FPS or allow you to use better graphic settings. If you want that, then you'll need to upgrade your graphic card and/or processor.
EDIT: I'd recommend getting an SSD, the computer will feel much better to use after getting one.
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If those are the bottlenecks that you're complaining of, then yes, an SSD is the solution. From a cursory glance at New Egg, this is what I'd get:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148694
I'd also install your commonly played games on the SSD. Good, modern SSDs perform well even under artificial stress tests until at least 75% full, and sometimes well beyond that.
You can reuse your Windows license to install to the SSD, though Microsoft may not like it if you use it as a dual-boot system and frequently boot to the hard drive. (Off hand, I think that's technically against the licensing agreement, but even if so, there's a decent chance that Microsoft won't care, as they've been paid for the Windows license, which is what they're really after.)
http://steamcommunity.com/id/Cloudsol/
Then there is no reason for upgrade.
Slow OS is likely sw issue.
If your windows is slow you probably have too much open.
Trim your running processes.
Trim your services to only what you need running. Look them up to see if you need them.
Try some lighter AV/firewall solutions. Avast + Windows Firewall Control is super lightweight. You can trim some of Avast's settings as well.
look up windows optimizations. There are some really good ones.
Defragment using IObit. great free software.
SSD is not really a crucial upgrade. I only reboot when my system gets unstable, otherwise I just hibernate. You have 8gb of ram so your system should be pretty snappy without one. I still dont have an SSD and I have zero problems with system speed.
If you are into gaming then your bottleneck would be your Video card. If you are not overclocking your CPU then you should be. That processor has a decent overclock. An inexpensive tower heatsink with fans in a push/pull config can do wonders.
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Yes. I hit the 8 key out of habit.