How often do you upgrade your PC these days?

[Reckoner]

I used to have the upgrade itch once a year, but now I find myself only upgrading once every 2-3 years. What about you guys?

 

[jamesbond007]

Use to upgrade every 2-3 months, usually faster, when I wasn't in school. Now it's been almost 2 years since I've changed my PC.

However, I have added some extra harddisks and more RAM to this computer, but that's nothing major.

 

[mugs]

Every 2 years or so.

 

[SophalotJack]

upgrading these days requires a new motherboard every 2 weeks. Which then leads you to replacing all your other ******.

gotta hand it to the compure manufacturing industry.... they redeemed the sheep market.


I like the comp in my sig just the way it is. I spent the money I saved on comp upgrades from the last year to buy a motorcyle..... whic I will now always choose to use over my computer.


<----- computer scientist.

go ahead and rag on my grammar. I refuse to use the back, left or delete key.

 

[Rubycon]

So often I need an FX60 w 4GB to run dynamics to track the invoices.

 

[phisrow]

I've really slowed down. Got a new laptop 2.5 years ago, haven't felt the need for anything but a bit more harddrive space since. I'm still a sucker for new software; but I seem to be growing out of hardware.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

After five years I finally upgraded a couple of days ago.

1.4Ghz Thunderbird to a 3800+ A64 X2
9200 Pro to a 7900 GT
512MB PC2100 to 1GB PC6400
40GB 2MB Cache HDD to 160GB 8MB Cache HDD

Still not quite as uber as what you guys have, but for me it's fucking godly.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

I've been doing incremental upgrades from time to time. I'll probably end up getting a new "core" to this system (CPU/MB/RAM/VID) in a year or so. My current system is about 2 years old I think, so that would put me at once every 3 years or so.

 

[Reckoner]

Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy
After five years I finally upgraded a couple of days ago.

1.4Ghz Thunderbird to a 3800+ A64 X2
9200 Pro to a 7900 GT
512MB PC2100 to 1GB PC6400
40GB 2MB Cache HDD to 160GB 8MB Cache HDD

Still not quite as uber as what you guys have, but for me it's ****** godly.

'That's like going from a Yugo to a Corvette

 

[adairusmc]

Often

 

[EvilYoda]

Unfortunately, not as much as I would like...I'm still on an AMD XP 2600+ with 1gig of PC2100 and a Radeon 9800 Pro. I've upgraded my hard drive space and my optical drives are fine, but it's damn slow.

Come early next year, I plan on buying a C2D 6400, 2 gigs of DDR2 800 RAM and whatever mobo will do me well, in addition to a DX10 card. $$$.

With all my money going into audio and my other hobbies recently, my computer's suffered. (At least I have a 20" LCD)

 

[keeleysam]

Recent sequence:

600MHz PIII
1GHz PIII
1.4GHz Thunderbird
2.2GHz Barton
Athlon 64 2800+
Athlon 64 3500+
Athlon 64 3700+
Opteron 165
Opteron 170
E6600 Week 26
E6600 Week 33

A lot.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: keeleysam
Recent sequence:

600MHz PIII
1GHz PIII
1.4GHz Thunderbird
2.2GHz Barton
Athlon 64 2800+
Athlon 64 3500+
Athlon 64 3700+
Opteron 165
Opteron 170
E6600 Week 26
E6600 Week 33

A lot.

Did you see any improvement in overclockability with a newer chip?

 

[Aznguy1872]

my sequence in processors for myself, not like my family computer is: amd barton 2500++, and then amd 64 3000++. So yea, i dont really upgrade too much. But use to upgrade like every 6 months but just dont feel the need.

 

[judasmachine]

Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
I used to have the upgrade itch once a year, but now I find myself only upgrading once every 2-3 years. What about you guys?

same here

CPU History
133Mhz Pentium
166MMX Pentium
500Mhz Pentium III
900Mhz Duron
Athlon XP 1700+
Athlon XP 1700+ Tbred (Oh how I miss this monsterJ)
3.0 GHz Pentium4 (still cranking away, but about to be replaced by a C2D Conroe.

 

[CorCentral]

I'd like it to be once every 2 years, but the last one was 1year and 10days later. As seen on my rig page. I feel I'm good for at least another 1-1.5 years with the new rig.

 

[grrl]

Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy
After five years I finally upgraded a couple of days ago.

1.4Ghz Thunderbird to a 3800+ A64 X2
9200 Pro to a 7900 GT
512MB PC2100 to 1GB PC6400
40GB 2MB Cache HDD to 160GB 8MB Cache HDD

After 6 years I upgraded a couple of months ago:

1.0 Ghz Thunderbird to a 3800+ A64 X2
Matrox G450 LX to a GeForce 6500
384MB PC133 to 2GB PC3200
Philips PSC705 to a Creative Audigy2
13GB 1MB HD to 120Gb 8MB HD & 80GB 8MB HD

 

[Shawn]

Every 2 years or so. I'm going to try to get this P4 3.06GHz to last me another 2 years if I can though. Because in order to upgrade the CPU I'll also have to upgrade the motherboard, ram, video card and ide hard drives. Don't have the money for such a major upgrade so instead I just upgraded the video card with another agp card and added an extra gig of ram. I think I can get another 2 years out of it.

 

[JujuFish]

I built my desktop in 2003 and have since added more hard drive space and upgraded the video card.

 

[Brentx]

MY sequence:

Pentium 200Mhz w/ 32MB of ram in 1997
Pentium 3 933Mhz w/ 256MB of ram in 2001
Athlon XP 1600+ w/ 512MB of ram and a nVidia gForce 3 ti200 in 2003
Athlon XP 2500+ w/ 1GB of ram and a ATI Radeon 9600Pro in 2004
Athlon 64 3000+ w/ 1.5GB of ram and a ATI Radeon x800Pro in 2004

I will be building this in Febuary of 2007, as long as nothing better comes out
Intel Core 2 Duo e6600
2GB of ram
nVidia 8800GTX
2 74GB WD raptors in raid 0

Since I have built somewhat mediocre systems for the time they were built in, I think I need to treat myself to a nice system right off the bat. After the monitor, which I am getting tomorrow, I will be spending about 2000, which isn't to bad for a blazing system.

 

[BoomerD]

Only when I absolutely have to. I'm not techno-crazy, so as long as it does a decent job with games, I'm usually pretty happy. I had been wanting to replace my mobo for a while, (cheapo POS ECS) so that was in the works this past spring, when the ECS decided to take a crap on me, and fried the AGP slot AND my nVidia 6800GT AGP card at the same time...SO...dumped another couple hundred $$ into a new ATI X850XT PE AGP card....Yeah, I know, if I had known in advance that the mobo AND vid card were gonna have to be replaced, I'd have upgraded to PIC-E at that time....

That will probably be my next upgrade...in a couple of years...New mobo, new processor, ram, vid card, hdd, the whole works...AND, an new PSU...hopefully, the POS Aspire 500 I have will last that long...

 

[fleshconsumed]

My current rig is going on for about two years I'd say or close to it. P4-3.4GHz, still AGP and DDR. Would probably wait another 6-12 months before upgrading, hopefully by that time maybe nvidia will roll out new chips, not as power hungry as 8800 series right now and not as expensive.

 

[PeeluckyDuckee]

Used to spend loads of money upgrading this and that every few months. That was what, about 4-5 yrs ago. Ever since I got into laptops, the urge to upgrade desktops has slowly dried up. Now having a X41 as my primary and only system, I no longer follow hardware trends.

Saves me a lot of money. But don't ask me where all that money is though, heh.

 

[Geekbabe]

when it stops doing the things I need it to do I have Dell build me a new one ,I don't upgrade beyond adding memory anymore.

 

[Old Hippie]

I used to buy a new laptop every 18 months and add doo-dads along the way. But these desktops have many more easly upgradable things and I get the "itch" way to often. And the Hot Deals section doesn't help one bit!