If your hand-me-downs are...

[Regs]

If your hand-me-downs from your computer upgrades to your friends or family are at least twice as powerful from what they used to have - you might be a computer enthusiast.

I just gave my brother in-law my "old" 9800 non pro when he originally had a GFMX4 (shivers). Now I'm on a 6800GT.

Than I also gave my sister 512MBs of PC3200 Corsair RAM that I ... just had laying around. That gave her a total GIG of RAM she'll likely never need considering the only type of games she likes are games like The Sims .

I just had one of those...thoughts where I just go "Wow"! I am spending too much money on my computer.

 

[NTB]

Yeah, I guess you could say that - I've *ahem* upgraded my computer a few times, and every time the old stuff has gone to the rest of my family:

AMD k6-2 400 / 256MB PC133 / Nvidia Riva TNT --> AMD Duron 750 / 256MB PC133 / GF2MX --> Athlon XP 1600+ / 512MB PC2100 / GF3 Ti200 --> Athlon 64 (754) 3000+ / 1.0GB PC3200 / ATI Radeon 9800 Pro.

the 750 system is dead (mainboard bit the dust), but the rest of the stuff is still running. I'm just waiting to get my 9800 Pro back from RMA for a bad power connector

Nate

 

[Regs]

I bet you have the same itch as I do to upgrade the 3000 Newcastle.

 

[Oyeve]

I hear ya, i'm looking at my old 9700 pro collecting dust on my shelf. I still use my 9800 pro in my main system until a game comes out that it wont handle. I am also looking at 4 sticks of my "old" 512meg pc2700 sitting on my shelf next to my old P4 3.06mhz 533fsb chip and my "old" P4 3.0ghz 800fsb Northwood and my "old" p4 2.4ghz 533 fsb chip stacked on one another just collecting dust.

 

[Tea Bag]

That's the only time I bulid computers for people that I am not partial to.. When I would like an upgrade, I just pawn my parts off to them (at a slight cost) and buy all new stuff for myself. I usually keep plenty of parts hanging around just incase i need to piece together a ghetto computer for an emergency.

 

[Regs]

Originally posted by: Oyeve
I hear ya, i'm looking at my old 9700 pro collecting dust on my shelf. I still use my 9800 pro in my main system until a game comes out that it wont handle. I am also looking at 4 sticks of my "old" 512meg pc2700 sitting on my shelf next to my old P4 3.06mhz 533fsb chip and my "old" P4 3.0ghz 800fsb Northwood and my "old" p4 2.4ghz 533 fsb chip stacked on one another just collecting dust.

Don't forget about the For sale forum here. I remember making 70 dollars off a Kt333 and a 1800. Better than collecting dust.

 

[NTB]

Originally posted by: Regs
I bet you have the same itch as I do to upgrade the 3000 Newcastle.

Not particularly. Not yet, anyway I just built this system a few months ago; beings I don't do that much gaming, it should hold me for a while.

Nate

 

[bockchow]

when i hand down my old parts i normaly have to do a complete rebuild since the parts they have are so outdated it's not even compatible. my system is probably about 4x faster than most of the people i know if they even have a computer.