How often do you upgrade your pc?

[michaels]

I have had two different videocards in the past 6 years. Biggest waste of money besides buying a new car, trying to keep up.

 

[Coquito]

First time in five years,

 

[Ika]

Current computer is 4 years old and running. Upgraded the memory to 512mb and the video card to a 6800NU, but that's basically it. I wouldn't say upgrades are on a cyclical basis, but only really when it's valuable or it's needed. When I go to college, I'm getting a new computer, simply because Conroe by then will have better value and this computer is too junky to follow me.

 

[mattocs]

4 years or so.

 

[Baked]

Damn you cheap asses. I thought I would be the only one saying 1st time in 4 years. Curse you all!

Well, when I upgrade, I upgrade the whole system and not just one of the crucial components.

 

[BoomerD]

Only when I absolutely need to. Did a minor upgrade this spring...new mobo and vid card. Last major one was in 03, when I upgraded from P3 to P4, with a new mobo, processor, RAM and vid card. Upgraded the vid card again in 04 to a 6800GT. That one went bad this spring, and took out the AGP slot when it went, necessitating the latest upgrade. (STILL AGP, since at the time, I believed the card to be good...)

 

[Sid59]

closing in on 3 years. I thought i was awesome with my 2500 barton OC'd to 3200 speeds.

i dont think i've even touched any new hardware since my purchase. Wait, i think i bought the NEC 3500A and that's about it. I just landed a nice job, after i save up to buy other gadgets, im going SFF. always wanted one to sit on my desk.

 

[Skeeedunt]

New comp ~ 3 years ago, w/ new vid card ~ 1 year ago. Now I'm drooling over high C2D benchmarks and low X2 prices.

 

[RallyMaster]

Every 2 or 3 years depending on prices and amount of money in bank

 

[eelw]

Have had my Conroe system for like 3 weeks now. My 3.4 Northwood was built over 2.5 years ago. Depending on how much a performance gain for video encoding there is with the Intel quad cores, may get another system when that is initially released. Otherwise I'll be happy with my Conroe for a while.

 

[simms]

Bought a T42 with 2 yrs more warranty for 720.
Sold my T40 with 1 month warranty for 700.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Haven't upgraded a thing on this computer since I bought it 6 years ago.

 

[morgash]

My TOTAL upgrade path from the beginning would be

3dfx voodoo 1
3dfx voodoo 2
voodoo 2 SLI
voodoo 3 16mb AGP
radeon 7200 32mb PCI (which recently did 510mhz on the core with a athlon xp heatsink, fairly impressive)
geforce 4 ti4600 AGP

All those below were in the last year (x800gto2 and below were within the last half a year or so)

Below run on my Athlon XP 2400+ System
geforce fx5200 128mb AGP

Below run on my P4 2.8ghz Prescott LGA775 system
geforce pcx 5750 128mb PCI-E (stock 400/500, OC to 575/660 on stock air)
radeon x800 vanilla 128mb PCI-E
radeon x800xl 256mb PCI-E

Below run on my Opty 144 Socket 939 system
radeon x800gto2 256mb (unlocked to 16pp and ran at 550/600)
7800gt CO 256mb (ran at 530/1250 with NV5 Silencer, allowed it to run with 7800gtx's)

Below run on the system in my sig
7900gt 256mb (ran at 650/1950 with vf700cu)
short stint with x1800xt 512mb, then went back to 7900gt
x1900xt 512mb in my sig


Morgash

 

[mundane]

4 years. I might upgrade in the spring.

Edit: Less of an upgrade, more of a completely new system.

 

[mrrman]

whenever I have a buyer for my old stuff..so far I have 3 current up to date pc's

 

[Miramonti]

Roughly 8-11 months I wind up getting a new mobo and cpu.

 

[episodic]

I try every three years. I'm in the 2nd year on this one. Really less concerned about upgrading than alot as I don't game. Photoshop CS3 might might be the only way that I force an upgrade. I did get a flat panel finally recently.

 

[yosuke188]

Whenever I feel the need to. Not playing games come in handy, because now I'll probably not upgrade my fanless 7300GS for a long time.

 

[Vich]

My computer is about 5-6 years old. An AMD 2500+ with a 9500 pro radeon card... Hoping to get a new computer in about half a year. No money.. And when i get a new computer... hoping to get a shuttle. No more lugging around a giant.

 

[Lvis]

Still running a p3 here. 1.4 512k model.


I had to replace the motherboard a couple months back, and just treated myself to a dvd burner.


I'll probably get a new rig next year sometime, after vista comes out.

 

[newmachineoverlord]

I upgraded when starcraft broodwards came out, and then again last winter. So about every seven years. I expect it will be six more years before good games requiring more than 512MB and a sempron 3200+ become common, by then hopefully I'll be able to put together a new quad core system for under $400. I probably won't upgrade again until starcraft II and its expansion go down in price to under $25. So far there isn't really any reason to go beyond socket A, just a waste of money imho.

 

[chambersc]

aqbout 8 months...i would love to upgrade more but im in college so.....

 

[Deleted member 4644]

I upgrade some part of my overall system every month or two.

 

[mooncancook]

around half a year to one year, it all depends on how the new games are stressing my system.

 

[walrus]

Only when something breaks. Actually when my GForce4 blew I went out to the garage and pulled out a very old VooDoo5. It's running just fine.