I wanna upgrade my 3.5 year old computer but cant find a good reason to

[Anubis]

my 3200+ w 2 gigs of ram is still rockin, no need to upgrade it IMO, i did upgrade my vid card froma 6600GT to a 7600T because the 6600GT died

 

[Slammy1]

It kinda depends on your usage. I'm mostly happy with my P4P800, 1.5G PC3500, 3.0C and X850; it even runs the native rez of my panel (1080p) for modern games. Sure, I don't get the full effect, but it'll hold until next year and I'll get the latest/greatest and a DX10 card.

 

[Syphilis]

You really can't beat yourself up for not having the cutting-edge, especially because this market is so unforgiving. 33 days after I upgraded to a 7800 GT, the 7900 came out.

 

[SVT Cobra]

I'm jealous of all you guys, I am still on a 730mgz P3 with 128megs of RAM, and a Nvidia 5200 upgrade from Wal-Mart. I can still play some games at low resolution with some bad screen lag at times. I have it finely tuned though (I keep a bare miminum on the hardrive, rarely have over 16 processes running, that type of thing) so it doesn't feel a lot different from other computers I use at work etc.

 

[ghostman]

I think I have you all beat (though I wish I hadn't). My primary machine is a AMD Duron 950, 512MB, TNT2 32MB. Yeah, an upgrade would be nice and I can afford one (heck, $100 could double the power of this machine), but I haven't found much need for it yet. Yet.

EDIT: D'oh. I guess I don't have you all beat.

 

[Kaervak]

I'm still using my P4-M 1.7ghz four year old laptop. No real reason to upgrade to anything new IMO. I'll probably use this one till it dies.

 

[Martin]

I'm not big on upgrades. Last year and a half ago I got a AMD3000 with a gig of ram and I can't complain (except that it needs a reformat). Before that I had the same Duron 700/256mb for a bit over 5 years.

 

[simms]

This T42 Centrino 735 with Fingerprint, SXGA+, 1GB 2700 is going to last me until 2008 when the warranty expires.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: Beachboy

Originally posted by: Shawn
I still have my P4 3.06GHz that I got 2 years ago. I see no reason to upgrade. It is plenty fast enough.

That's what I thought with that exact same chip.

The move to an E6400 (and I did it on the cheap with an ASRock-775Dual board) was a bit of a mindblower.

It is really that much faster. It pretty much doubled my COD2, HL2, and Q4 FPS's and truly saves me hours on all the encoding I do.

I've been in this computer game for years and years and I can't remember gettting a smile like this for under $300 for a long time. It's cool to hang onto old good stuff that works but to ignore major leaps in progress that can be acheived cheaply is simply being uber-cheap.

Did that $300 include a new video card and ram? Because if I upgraded my processor I would have to upgrade my motherboard. And since it uses AGP and DDR ram I would also have to upgrade to a PCI-e video card and DDR2 ram. Doesn't seem worth it to me, especially since I already have 2GB of DDR400.

 

[RGN]

I'm doing an upgrade now. From P4 3.2 S478 with a Geforce 6800 to a Athlon FX-55 S939 with a Geforce 7900GTO 512MB.

w00t for moving from one dead platform to another!!!

 

[jlee]

Originally posted by: RGN
I'm doing an upgrade now. From P4 3.2 S478 with a Geforce 6800 to a Athlon FX-55 S939 with a Geforce 7900GTO 512MB.

w00t for moving from one dead platform to another!!!

Heh...ah well. All these people upgrading /from/ systems that are already significantly faster than mine..

Want to donate stuff?

 

[fleshconsumed]

Quite simple really if you don't need a new PC, don't upgrade. My P4 3.0C@3.4 and 6800GT@ultra do everything I need them to. Sure, it's a little slow to run games in 1920x1200, but it's acceptable so there is no reason to upgrade. I hope to stay with my current rig for another year, maybe a little longer, hopefully by that time nvidia/ati will put out new videocards that are not as powerhungry as 8800...

 

[thomsbrain]

i haven't found any reason to upgrade my 3.2HT laptop in the last 3 years. it's still plenty fast.

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

Man... why are people on a forum full of computer geeks wanting a reason to upgrade! Aren't we supposed to want to upgrade for no reason, just because we like to play with and tweak computers?!?

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: miri
When I bought this computer in 2003, I never would have imagined nearly 4 years later id still be able to run the latest games at a nice resolution. I did upgrade the video card last year, but the main part of the computer is from 2003. But since it runs my games at 1680x1050, I dont really have a reason to upgrade it now. I think this is the longest that a computer has lasted without being obsolete

i still have a pentium pro 225mhz in AT case (atx). beat that.

u dont need top upgrade cpu. games are just video card intensive. if it says pentium 4, you're fine. (celeron is a diff story.)

 

[Red Dawn]

Well it's great to be able to buy a system and no it won't be outdated in 18 months. Of course all of that could change when MyDickisSoft releases Vista.

 

[Raduque]

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: Beachboy

Originally posted by: Shawn
I still have my P4 3.06GHz that I got 2 years ago. I see no reason to upgrade. It is plenty fast enough.

That's what I thought with that exact same chip.

The move to an E6400 (and I did it on the cheap with an ASRock-775Dual board) was a bit of a mindblower.

It is really that much faster. It pretty much doubled my COD2, HL2, and Q4 FPS's and truly saves me hours on all the encoding I do.

I've been in this computer game for years and years and I can't remember gettting a smile like this for under $300 for a long time. It's cool to hang onto old good stuff that works but to ignore major leaps in progress that can be acheived cheaply is simply being uber-cheap.

Did that $300 include a new video card and ram? Because if I upgraded my processor I would have to upgrade my motherboard. And since it uses AGP and DDR ram I would also have to upgrade to a PCI-e video card and DDR2 ram. Doesn't seem worth it to me, especially since I already have 2GB of DDR400.

He used an ASRock 775Dual board. It has APG, PEG 4x, DDR and DDR2.