How often do YOU upgrade your PC?

[Rimnet]

How often do you upgrade your PC? Major and minor upgrades included.... And how much a year on the comp

 

[m2kewl]

Minor upgrades all the time, major upgrades annually (as long as I have $$).

 

[Dudd]

Not too often. I have a new Inspiron and an older Dell destop (3-4 years old), and all I've done is switched the video card from a TnT to a Radeon LE, and I've went from 128 mb of ram to 512. Nothing else. I only upgrade out of necessity or if I can get a really good deal.

 

[Trader05]

I usually upgrade every christmas and spring, gives me time to upgrade the whole system.... It usually works out for me....or usually every other model..for example ...tnt2, geforce2 now geforce 4. I don't usually upgrade model after model in video cards.

 

[WTT0001]

I don't have that much money so: new computer every 3-4 years and 1 or 2 upgrades along the way, just went from a 1998 Compaq 5220 (K6-2 380) to an Athlon XP 1800+ that I just built last week, the "along the way" upgrade were a 40Gb hard drive last august and a CD-burner around the same time. Big jump

 

[RamzaBeoulve]

I try and upgrade at least SOMETHING every 1-3 months. I usually make major upgrades every half to full year.

 

[Deskstar]

minor upgrades as needed; major hardware upgrade annually; motherboard every other year.

 

[Sniper82]

I upgrade something about every 6 months. I am always a step down when it come to new tech. Like right now I have a Athlon 1.4,PC2100 DDR,Geforce 3 Ti200,ect. I prob won't buy a Athlon XP or a Geforce 4 untill the new AMD CPU comes out and Nvidia's new card.

 

[farmercal]

I upgrade about every four years (except for now - I need a separate system for my kids). If I didn't have to pay rent, buy food, repair cars, or I make oodles of money I could upgrade more often....but then again I wouldn't. The difference of a 900 MHz to a 1.2 GHz system is so small that I just couldn't see investing the money. Not to mention that since I am stationed oversea the cost of shipping to an APO. You guys and gals living in the continental US count your blessings!

 

[LethalWolfe]

I upgrade as needed. In the past year I haven't upgraded anything on my PC (I sold my RAID card and bought a regular controller card, but that doesn't count since it was a trade-off, not really an up grade). I'll probably buy a new gfx card in the fall to replace my G450.

But I did drop 4k on a new G4 (and related editing hardware and software) 'cause cutting w/FCP is so nice. But, editing is what I want to do so I keep telling myself "it's an investment in my future."


Lethal

 

[GrimReaperPOH]

Major upgrade, processor, video card etc. at least every year.

 

[Pabster]

Daily. Or at least every week

Got to stay out of Hot Deals and cut up a few credit cards

 

[Booster]

I upgrade every few months, 2-3, to be exact. Of course, not all my upgrades are major, but not a single component has lived in my system more than 4 months, unfortunately (or fortunately).