Anyone feel that they DONT need to upgrade?

[VirtualLarry]

For all of you that are hanging on to their existing systems, and not upgrading to i5/i7/AII/PhII, here's your thread.

Tell us why you're not upgrading. Don't be shy.

I plan on skipping the entire 1156/1366 generations. I still have the parts to build one more Q6600, and two Q9550 rigs, all on X48 DDR2 boards. Probably keep them all at 4GB of RAM, though, because RAM prices shot way back up.
Currently, my two main machines are still rocking E2140s, not sure if I want to change them, they run so well.

I'm starting to get a lot more power-concious, in my old age. I used to think that maximum overclock was all that mattered (Q6600 @ 3.6 baby!), but now I realize that paying an exorbitant electric bill, purely for bragging rights, is pointless.

 

[Falloutboy]

i'm kinda borderline atm on upgrading and i'm even older. I'm still running a athlon BE-2400 on a 780G MB with a 8800gts and really don't see a need to upgrade, maybe swap two of my 1gb sticks of ram to 2gb to give me 6gb total but thats about it.

 

[VirtualLarry]

i'm kinda borderline atm on upgrading and i'm even older. I'm still running a athlon BE-2400 on a 780G MB with a 8800gts and really don't see a need to upgrade, maybe swap two of my 1gb sticks of ram to 2gb to give me 6gb total but thats about it.

That's still a pretty decent rig. That's kind of how I feel about my overclocked E2140s. 2.8 and 3.2 Ghz, is fast enough for almost any game, maybe not enough for 60fps, but enough to be playable, I think.

I have a BE-2350 or BE-2400 in my HTPC rig, with a Foxconn 780G board with HDMI out. It needs ram though, there's none in it right now.

Chances are, you could drop in a PhII chip into your board. I think my board can too, although I'm not sure, because they came out with a 2.0 revision with specific support for the newer AM3 CPUs (the board is AM2+).

I upgraded a relative's box running XP with a Dell Vostro 200, and an 8800GTS 640 OC card, he was thrilled. He was running games like Dragon Age:Origins on a Pentium D with a 7600GT. Even though everyone says on these forums that you need a quad-core for DA:O.

 

[happy medium]

Just looking for a nice gpu upgrade here.
Everything else cpu,ram,motherboard is just fine.

I did upgrade from a e8400 but thats for future multy threaded games.
The upgrade only cost me about 60$ for my q9550 ,I had to jump on it.

 

[Tsavo]

Just don't start shaking your cane at them whippersnappers!

 

[Bucks]

I am currently still on my Athlon XP 1700+ overclocked to 2.4ghz. Rest of the specs include 1 gb ram, Abit NF7, Asus 9600XT, Windows XP and Antec True 430 power supply. I really only play Warcraft 3 and school/web browsing. I can do these things at a reasonable speed, so I will not be upgrading until probably December or so.

 

[aigomorla]

I'm starting to get a lot more power-concious, in my old age. I used to think that maximum overclock was all that mattered (Q6600 @ 3.6 baby!), but now I realize that paying an exorbitant electric bill, purely for bragging rights, is pointless.

I dont think ur X48 with kentsfield pulls that much more then my X58 with gulftown on the power grid.

My gpu's however... :hmm:

 

[Maximilian]

I dont need to upgrade

 

[Tsavo]

I dont think ur X48 with kentsfield pulls that much more then my X58 with gulftown on the power grid.

My gpu's however... :hmm:

Your GPU's melt icebergs that polar bears use as transportation.

Because of you, there are hundreds of polar bears that cannot get to work in the morning.

You aren't very green!

 

[gorobei]

upgrade is slightly risky right now. much like the old socket 941/940/939 scenario of the athlon dual core transition.

there wont be any massive ddr(x) transition anytime soon, but with USB3, SATA6, PCIe3, displayport, and all the weird variations on core i(X) the potential for your motherboard to be incompatible/obsolete a year from now makes it not worth upgrading now. not that you are screwed if you buy now, you obviously get a working cpu at 3-4ghz. but for those of us that like to wait till the second/stable revisions are out, it is much better to wait a generation.

plus games and apps arent really pushing the limits of good s775 hardware.

 

[zagood]

no cash, and still getting away with overclocks on old equipment + too much ram + SSD.

 

[RaistlinZ]

I'm living in an area with no access to high speed internet, which means I don't do online gaming anymore (or almost any gaming for that matter). All I'm limited to is basic internet for checking email and chatting with you bastards.

Check my current rig in my sig. I'll toss this junker and build a new one probably in about a year and a half when I move back to civilization.

 

[v8envy]

I had a 3.2 ghz E2140, and thought I didn't need an upgrade.

Wife was in microcenter neighborhood, called me with a "Do we need anything?" So I did an accidental upgrade.

You know what? The i7 with 6 gigs of ram is nicer. At 3.6 ghz it's much nicer. My subjective feel is that everything is smoother and faster. I'm now completely limited by my dinosaur of a G92 video card and I don't worry about leaving apps and/or virus checkers running when I fire up a game.

Would I have done that if I was short on cash? Probably not. Am I happy I did it? You bet!

 

[astrosfan315]

I didn't 'upgrade' to an i5, per se. I just built a new system and gave my Athlon 64x2 4800+ and 8800GT to my 8 year old All for the sake of his education. Plus I got my wife's blessing to do so, which made it even easier. But believe me that 8800GT is still a great GPU. It plays everygame out..maybe not full eye candy, but at least medium with good results. If it wasn't for me and my son constantly fighting for PC time, I wouldn't have built out an i5-750 system.

 

[jdjbuffalo]

Since I am putting together an i3 based HTPC right now (no gaming, at least initially, on this build) it takes care of the upgrade itch.

I don't see any reason to upgrade my main rig right now. My overclocked Q6600 is a beast no matter what I throw at it. The only thing that is showing a little aging is my ATI 4850 512MB card. For the most part I can still keep all my game settings maxed out but I'm starting to see some dips below 60FPS in games.

In March, once Nvidia comes out with their next gen cards, I'll be looking at the pricing of the cards on the market then and I may decide to jump on a good deal.

 

[faxon]

I'm more than happy with my main box now (the one in my sig). I don't have enough storage capacity though so I'm about to spend $3000+ for a proper file server to meet my needs for the next 2 years. Then there's my other desktop I have for friends, and my laptop. I doubt I will ever be happy across the board lol

 

[Spicedaddy]

Next upgrade is an SSD. I rarely game so my vid card is fine, and I barely noticed my last upgrade (E7200 to i5-750).

 

[wanderer27]

I'm still running this 939 System as it handles any games I've been running.
Heck, I'm not even OC'ing anything though the option is easily there if I needed too.

I've bounced around maybe getting one of the newer faster HD's, but I don't really need too and I'm a bit leary on their reliability.

 

[ChippyUK]

I generally upgrade every 2 years or so, currently on a 6600 Core Duo (overclocked a bit). I agree with the OP, I don't think there is a huge reason to upgrade at the moment. Newer games (Mass Effect 2) even on my 4870 512mb run just fine, the only one that struggled was Prototype, and that's just poorly ported imo.

Recently it's been more important to upgrade the monitor, add an SSD as the OS drive and buy windows 7 (anyone with a half-decent laptop should put win7 on there if they have vista btw!).

However, when Nvidia's new cards come out, I may finally have a reason to upgrade again, just have to see. Generally it takes me days of research before I decide to buy anything, as I like to get the best bang for buck I can.... I do love building systems though and can't wait to put it together!

 

[soccerballtux]

Me.
While I love upgrading my processor for whatever reason (it's usually cheaper to get a near-top-of-the-line performing processor than graphics card), I really don't have any need to. Once I get a new graphics card I'll be very nicely paired. I imagine I could upgrade once more to the 7870 series and still be good as far as processor power goes.

 

[taltamir]

my last upgrade was to sell my used Q6600 on ebay for 160$ and buy a brand new Q9400 on newegg for 165$... for 5$ it was worth it.

I don't have the money, and the prices are outrageous right now. Intel is raping us without competition, and AMD can't product something worth upgrading to...
I am afraid I will be stuck with my current system for a while..

Oh, and I no longer have the TIME to play video games... I have even reverted to stock CPU speed because I don't actually need it and would rather save the electricity. A Q9400 is more then enough for me to use gmail, office, and chrome. (that, and new PC games are either crap or don't even use the CPU. So I am not inclined to make the time anytime soon)

 

[bobsmith1492]

I typically skip a generation at a time:

XP2500
(skipped Athlon 64s)
C2D 6300
(skipped C2quads, other high-end parts)
i5

The 6300 just wasn't keeping up anymore.

 

[Marty502]

Me.

I've only got the itch for a new hard drive, which I will buy soon, and a D/A TV Tuner to get rid of my old CRT. And faster broadband.

Other than that, this old rig serves me fine.
I'd love to upgrade because it's fun, but I can't justify it.
I'd rather spend the cash upgrading my guitars/amps.

Plus, I rarely play games anymore. So what's the point?

 

[zerocool84]

I just went from an oc'd E6300 to an oc'd Q9550 but not going to upgrade for at least another year. This system should last me until next gen. It still eats through games easily.

 

[fzzzt]

I'm not, sorta. I'm not upgrading my primary computer. I have a C2D 1.8, 2 GB RAM, and a GeForce 7600GT (ha!). It's old, but it does what I need just fine. I do software and web development and it runs multiple DBs, Eclipse, browsers, Java, etc. all at once without problems. It handles games fine. I may get a better video card this year, Dragon Age is a bit much, but as I said...it's enough.

I recently bought a $200 AMD for my girlfriend to use for WoW when we want to play together. It's amazing what you can get for 2-300 bucks. I'm now looking at a low-power computer for a storage computer, and will then get another low-power HTPC, I figure $300 each will be enough. I'm thinking a VIA for the former and some sort of Ion afterwards. After that, maybe I'll upgrade my computer. I'm sure something faster will be out, and the current i7s will be cheap by then.