How many of you will also not be upgrading your PC

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Thank god I am saving on upgrading my PC(s) this Holiday season. I still don't have my AVCHD machine done.

my fail thread, k thanks :thumbsup:

 

[Tristicus]

I haven't upgraded my PC for about two years probably and it still runs everything fine for me.

 

[rcpratt]

I did about 18 months ago and hopefully won't need to for at least a year.

Might get my parents a new PC for xmas, though.

 

[ravana]

I did about 20 months ago. Not planning on until June 2011, except for maybe storage.

 

[JSt0rm]

It's kind of amazing how long you can hold onto a pc these days. Years are when we had 100mhz Pentiums you could get massive gains every 18 months These days i'm on a amd x2 cpu for gaming and it does everything I throw at it. I've never gone so long without an upgrade.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

stopped upgrading many years ago. just buy a new rig when the time comes

 

[evident]

Not this year! made a pointless upgrade back in 2007 when i went from a C2D E6600 w/ Asus P5WDH Deluxe MB to an E8400 w/ Abit IP35Pro. As soon as i put it together i realized i just wasted my cash for a useless upgrade and identified my computer spending problems. I still can't justify another upgrade as i can run SC2 fine on high settings w/ my current rig. maybe when the sandy bridge refresh comes out i'll consider, but i doubt it

 

[JTsyo]

Probably hold on to my i7 920 machine for 4-5 years. P4 was good for 4 years.

 

[coldmeat]

my 8800gtx died over the summer, so I had to replace it. But that's the only part that's been replaced in over 3 years, probably won't change anything til next summer as long as my hard drive holds.

 

[DaveSimmons]

I did a full upgrade in July of 2008. I just replaced the Radeon 4870 with a 6850 for $180 (as much for lower noise as anything) but the old intel E8400 and 4 GB RAM are still fine for games like Fallout New Vegas.

Maybe next year when the next generation of video cards (after the current 40nm) are out.

 

[BoomerD]

I'm still living with my "ancient" P4 rig with AGP video...I MIGHT buy a "pre-built computer from Amazon if we decide to cash our Starpoints in for Amazon gift cards.

 

[Number1]

I upgraded the main machine in 2008. t`s going to be like this for a few more years because it does everything I need perfectly.

 

[Leros]

I haven't upgraded in my desktop or laptop in 3 years. I'm happy 99.5% of the time.

 

[RiDE]

I'm not upgrading... my rig is 4 years old. :hmm:

I'm buying a PS3 next week for GT5 though. :awe:

 

[lxskllr]

Not this year! made a pointless upgrade back in 2007 when i went from a C2D E6600 w/ Asus P5WDH Deluxe MB to an E8400 w/ Abit IP35Pro. As soon as i put it together i realized i just wasted my cash for a useless upgrade and identified my computer spending problems. I still can't justify another upgrade as i can run SC2 fine on high settings w/ my current rig. maybe when the sandy bridge refresh comes out i'll consider, but i doubt it

That was a silly upgrade. What was your thinking with the new mb?

My rig's just about as-built from 2006, and it's still working fine for my purposes. I need some more storage, and I'd like to get a ups, but I don't have the cash.

 

[Homerboy]

I did just upgrade (though it was more of a "rotation of hardware" throughout the house. I bought used CPU/MB/RAM, kept my old GPU. Still does everything I need it to.

I dont forsee changing anything for a long long time.

 

[ChaoZ]

The last time was 2 years ago. Only new thing I'll probably get is an SSD when they become affordable.

 

[eLiu]

I need to buy a new machine (or parts for a new one anyway). I'm running on an AthlonXP 2700+, which is inadequate for most everything.

 

[AMDZen]

Its been a while, I upgraded my video card earlier this year. Probably won't upgrade anything else for a while

 

[evident]

That was a silly upgrade. What was your thinking with the new mb?

My rig's just about as-built from 2006, and it's still working fine for my purposes. I need some more storage, and I'd like to get a ups, but I don't have the cash.

The 975X chipset had flaky support for the E8400 so i wanted to sell it.

funny thing is, I sold the old mb for more than i paid for it, because it was the "in" hackintosh motherboard at the time. maybe i'll snag a GTX 460 on black friday if there is a killer deal and i'll offload my 8800GT on ebay or FS/T.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

I've had my computer unchanged for a year and a half, and I'll probably be waiting another 3-4 years before I get any decent upgrades.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Yeah I upgraded mine a couple years ago, replacing every component over a few months. Realized I could have probably just swapped out the video card and power supply but oh well, I'll just hold onto my current setup for a while longer. I don't think a Phenom II X3 + Radeon 4870 is going to need replacing anytime soon.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Last upgrade was from an E8400 to a Q9550 about 18 months ago, I'm riding the 775 train until it blows up.

 

[hclarkjr]

i just upgraded beginning of this week, bought 2TB western digital black hard drive for great price to replace my 750 black drive. i suffer from upgradeitis and usually upgrade something every 6 months or so

 

[ViviTheMage]

had a e6600, swapped for a new board, and q9550 ... added a solid2 ssd 120gb, and upgrade video cards ... 7950GTX->880GTS->260->460

I am waiting on 6-8 core sandybridge to overhaul again...maybe sli/xfire it as well.