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Yeah, the 2tb is fine for all my steam games, I will get another 2tb soon, but I was thinking about getting a 500gig nVME m2.

The only argument to get ram first is I can play anything I want already, and to do certain video rendering and stuff I think 16 gig is not a lot, not sure.  To do 2d animation and render it do you think the 16 gigs is enough?

Funny thing is that while this motherboard can take say an i7 8700k, that would be 350$, and for what im doing with it now the i3 8100 is plenty good.  I will certainly be upgrading that sooner or later though.  Eventually I am getting another graphix card, but this 970 kicks ass.

nVME and SATA SSDs have similar performance. If you can get a SATA for cheaper than an nVME I say go for it. And yeah, for rendering more ram will make it so you can get it rendered quicker.