Buying computer parts is like throwing money in the toilet.

[kami]

I haven't upgraded anything since early January. Pretty proud of myself. I used to be an upgrade whore until i realized there was a little more to life :Q

 

[Burnt]

I usual try to sell my stuff before the price drops drastically. In january, I sold my P3 500mhz machine(with spare parts) on ebay for 350 and I was able to take that money and buy a new motherboard and 1ghz processor.

 

[McPhreak]

Actually it's like throwing money in the toilet, but the more money you throw in, the faster and sparklier it goes down. Sounds fun to me.

 

[peemo]

You probably have about 70% of the performance you'd get from cutting edge. No reason to upgrade unless the performance increase would pay for itself.

Take a look at this thread. It might make you feel better about keeping your current system a bit longer.

 

[desy]

Trailing edge!
Costs me virtually nothing as I keep it two yrs and move up.
I get lots of odds n ends free from others which ends up in a big part bin, get enough parts and buy the missing stuff and sell off whole PCs.
So I'm pretty much on a break even curve.
Computers is my job so the experience I get is cumulative and the upgrade is the bonus

 

[azazyel]

I'm just glad that when I was in the spending mode that I bought a good monitor. That is the only thing I have that hasn't droped in price drastically....at least I don't think so.

Edit: $100 in 8 months...oh well not that terrible...sniff

 

[skace]

The difference between buying computer parts and throwing your money into the toilet is the computer money goes back into the economy while the toilet money just goes into our sewer systems

 

[Maetryx]

Maetryx here,

One time I paid $1150 for a 1.5 Gbyte SCSI-1 hard drive. I also paid $342 for a 14.4k modem. I paid $500 for a 16MB SIMM.

But man, was I *EVER* ahead of the curve in 1993 - 1995.

I remember buying a second 16MB SIMM to go with the first one: it cost $50 just about 1.5 - 2 years after I paid $500 for the first one.

 

[Pliablemoose]

You guys need to hang out @ hot deals more often if you're spending 2K on a computer.

notfred, just do a mb/cpu swap for now, hock the old stuff on EBay, keep an eye on the Hot Deals forum.

 

[JellyBaby]

<< I also paid $342 for a 14.4k modem. >>

Heh, I paid $700 for a USR HST "back in the day".