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So who doesn't have the upgrade bug?

HannibalX

HannibalX

Diamond Member
I would love to go out and drop some serious money and build a screaming new PC. In fact I did that a few months back; spent about 2k on the system. I had it three weeks, decided it was overkill and sold it to my neighbor for 2.5k (hey, gotta make a buck like everyone else).

I pulled my "spare" PC out of the closet. A venerable AMD AthlonXP based machine. Went through my "parts bin" at home and put together what would be my primary home PC.

My "new" FrankenPC consists of old and new parts sitting around my office. The specs are: AMD AthlonXP 3200+ (2.2GHz), 2GB Patriot DDR400 Cas2 memory, 74GB 10k Raptor HD, 400GB WD storage HD, ATi X1600 Pro w/ 512 MB meory, Creative SB Live 7.1, Netgear wi-fi PCI NIC card, dual NEC DVD/CD burners and a new Antec case/power supply combo.

Honestly this PC does EVERYTHING I want it to do. From playing BF2 @ 1280x1024 with all the settings maxed out to burning two DL DVDs at a time, MPEG encoding, Photoshop, etc, etc.

At work I have a ?underpowered? workstation running Win2k3 Standard. It?s a P4E 2.8 GHz, 1GB of ram, 128MB video card (ATi 9800 Pro), dual Sony DVD burners, etc, etc.

I ROCK this PC at work and it never hiccups. I am working on it right now and have about 50 processes running. I am using around 800MB of ram and it?s smooth as butter.

I guess what I am saying is I would love to have the latest and greatest, but for me (who I consider a Power user at home and I am a System Admin at work) two+ year old technology is just fine.

Anyone else feal this way?
 
Yup. I've been itching to upgrade since about three months after building my current PC. :roll:
Current: athlon64 3500+, 6800GT, msi k8n neo2, antec truepower 480w, antec 3700BQE, nec 3500 dvd r/w, soundblaster x-fi xtrememusic.

I built it in October '04. When the nForce 4 mobos came out I wanted to upgrade just for the heck of it and held back. Then I wanted to switch to a Venice core and held out. Then the case & power supply. Then the vid card (I'm on AGP and there are no better alternatives) and dual core.

Now that Conroe is here I can barely contain myself. The only things holding me back are
1. money - The Conroe system I have specced out is just under $1300
2. logic - My current system can do everything I want it to except multitask and play the latest games on super high settings so I can't really justify the upgrade 🙁
 
Originally posted by: Trinitron
I would love to go out and drop some serious money and build a screaming new PC. In fact I did that a few months back; spent about 2k on the system. I had it three weeks, decided it was overkill and sold it to my neighbor for 2.5k (hey, gotta make a buck like everyone else).

I pulled my "spare" PC out of the closet. A venerable AMD AthlonXP based machine. Went through my "parts bin" at home and put together what would be my primary home PC.

My "new" FrankenPC consists of old and new parts sitting around my office. The specs are: AMD AthlonXP 3200+ (2.2GHz), 2GB Patriot DDR400 Cas2 memory, 74GB 10k Raptor HD, 400GB WD storage HD, ATi X1600 Pro w/ 512 MB meory, Creative SB Live 7.1, Netgear wi-fi PCI NIC card, dual NEC DVD/CD burners and a new Antec case/power supply combo.

Honestly this PC does EVERYTHING I want it to do. From playing BF2 @ 1280x1024 with all the settings maxed out to burning two DL DVDs at a time, MPEG encoding, Photoshop, etc, etc.

At work I have a ?underpowered? workstation running Win2k3 Standard. It?s a P4E 2.8 GHz, 1GB of ram, 128MB video card (ATi 9800 Pro), dual Sony DVD burners, etc, etc.

I ROCK this PC at work and it never hiccups. I am working on it right now and have about 50 processes running. I am using around 800MB of ram and it?s smooth as butter.

I guess what I am saying is I would love to have the latest and greatest, but for me (who I consider a Power user at home and I am a System Admin at work) two+ year old technology is just fine.

Anyone else feal this way?
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You're running a server OS on your workstation at work? What for?
 
I have been obsessed with building a new computer lately, specifically a Conroe rig.

My current system is a little over 3 years old: P4 2.8C Northwood, 1GB RAM, abit IS7, 6600GT AGP (upgraded from an FX5600 about a year ago), Chieftec AX-01SLD case with generic 450W PSU (ISO, I think?), NEC 3540a and a Samsung 191T.

I would love to upgrade to some new tech, like PCIe and a dual core CPU, but I can't quite convince myself to shell out $1400-$2000 for a new build when I don't play games as much as I like to think I do, and can somehow run Oblivion acceptably at 1280x1024.

Of course, I also like to think I would buy/play more games if I had a system that could handle them. My system being 3+ years old, I'd like to build a new rig within the next few months, but I'm not sure when it will be financially feasible to do so.

The no payments for 6 months on newegg is really tempting right now...😉
 
The upgrade "bug" hits us all. Most would say only upgrade when what you have no longer serves your needs.

Myself, I like to stay current, so about every 4-6 months I start over. 😀
 
Yeah I feel that way I have spent a money on new system the return just is not worth it. In the old days upgrade made a big difference. Like going from no HDD to to a 20 meg, no sound to a sound card, double the memory would allow you to play lots more games etc etc.

I always expect it to blow me away because of the money that has been spent. I just going to wait now and let my system almost die and then I hope the upgrade will blow me away its a good feeling. Also do not think that Vista is going to be that much more over head that XP its not a dos > win 3.11 or 3.11 > win95
 
Kind of like me, only 2-3 times a year 🙁

I bought a TT tsunami dream 6 onths ago and not I want to replace it with something that doesn't have a side fan, plus it's getting cramped in there now 🙁
 
Originally posted by: Pabster
The upgrade "bug" hits us all. Most would say only upgrade when what you have no longer serves your needs.

Myself, I like to stay current, so about every 4-6 months I start over. 😀
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Lucky bastard.

🙁
 
i've had the upgrade bug for that past year and a half now but what i have is more than enough (p4 2.8, 512mb ram, mx440 agp, 180gb hitachi drive, dvd burner, and an unbranded case/psu. now, i just want a laptop for college
 
I have just barely finished building my PC and I am already looking forward to upgrading to RD600 and DX10 parts...I have the sickness.
 
My friend doesn't .. I've been trying to get him to upgrade his celery 350 oc'd to 450 for years.... has a vodoo3 in that pc w/ a awe32 isa sound card...

He's still running that old computer...

Regards,
Jose
 
Do I have the upgrade bug.. Hmm, let's see

I built a P41.6 Northwood with 512 MB RAM(DDR2100),80GB HDD and a Geforce 4 Ti4400
like 4 years agi($1400 at that time).. then I went ahead and bought a Dreamcast after like 6 months($200) ... 6 months after, when the XBOX came out I was like I have to have one of them ..went ahead and bought it ($200) plus about $200 for the games.. then
like an year and half after, I wanted to upgrade my PC and I thought a decent gaming laptop would do me good.. so went ahead and bought the ACER 8104(Sonoma) ($2200) like an year ago.. then my lappy died(just after the 1 year of warrant)as I left the lappy near the window on my desk with the window open and it rained during the night when i was asleep and water went into ...I was like darn it and bought the ACER 8204(Yonah) $2200.. then here is Conroe and reading about itmade me think about building one and here I am, gonna built it this weekend($1950 without the case and an aftermarket HSF).

In short, I do🙁
 
Originally posted by: Icepick
Yup. I've been itching to upgrade since about three months after building my current PC. :roll:
Current: athlon64 3500+, 6800GT, msi k8n neo2, antec truepower 480w, antec 3700BQE, nec 3500 dvd r/w, soundblaster x-fi xtrememusic.

I built it in October '04. When the nForce 4 mobos came out I wanted to upgrade just for the heck of it and held back. Then I wanted to switch to a Venice core and held out. Then the case & power supply. Then the vid card (I'm on AGP and there are no better alternatives) and dual core.

Now that Conroe is here I can barely contain myself. The only things holding me back are
1. money - The Conroe system I have specced out is just under $1300
2. logic - My current system can do everything I want it to except multitask and play the latest games on super high settings so I can't really justify the upgrade 🙁
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I priced my upgrade around the same =/ CPU+mobo+memory = $530 already. Then graphics card another $300 or so *sigh*. I'm hoping waiting till the x1900xt/x go down to about $250-300 range w/o rebates
 
Originally posted by: Geekwannab
Do I have the upgrade bug.. Hmm, let's see

I built a P41.6 Northwood with 512 MB RAM(DDR2100),80GB HDD and a Geforce 4 Ti4400
like 4 years agi($1400 at that time).. then I went ahead and bought a Dreamcast after like 6 months($200) ... 6 months after, when the XBOX came out I was like I have to have one of them ..went ahead and bought it ($200) plus about $200 for the games.. then
like an year and half after, I wanted to upgrade my PC and I thought a decent gaming laptop would do me good.. so went ahead and bought the ACER 8104(Sonoma) ($2200) like an year ago.. then my lappy died(just after the 1 year of warrant)as I left the lappy near the window on my desk with the window open and it rained during the night when i was asleep and water went into ...I was like darn it and bought the ACER 8204(Yonah) $2200.. then here is Conroe and reading about itmade me think about building one and here I am, gonna built it this weekend($1950 without the case and an aftermarket HSF).

In short, I do🙁
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holy fudge that's expensive....what all are you upgrading???! I hope for that price you're goig watercooling or something? or new monitor maybe?
 
Originally posted by: Dragoon42
I priced my upgrade around the same =/ CPU+mobo+memory = $530 already. Then graphics card another $300 or so *sigh*. I'm hoping waiting till the x1900xt/x go down to about $250-300 range w/o rebates
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Yeah, keep waiting 😛 Once they do hit those prices... DX10 cards will be out and you'll want one of them. Price: Around $500 - $600.

The "waiting" game is a losing proposition.
 
Originally posted by: Dragoon42
Originally posted by: Geekwannab
Do I have the upgrade bug.. Hmm, let's see

I built a P41.6 Northwood with 512 MB RAM(DDR2100),80GB HDD and a Geforce 4 Ti4400
like 4 years agi($1400 at that time).. then I went ahead and bought a Dreamcast after like 6 months($200) ... 6 months after, when the XBOX came out I was like I have to have one of them ..went ahead and bought it ($200) plus about $200 for the games.. then
like an year and half after, I wanted to upgrade my PC and I thought a decent gaming laptop would do me good.. so went ahead and bought the ACER 8104(Sonoma) ($2200) like an year ago.. then my lappy died(just after the 1 year of warrant)as I left the lappy near the window on my desk with the window open and it rained during the night when i was asleep and water went into ...I was like darn it and bought the ACER 8204(Yonah) $2200.. then here is Conroe and reading about itmade me think about building one and here I am, gonna built it this weekend($1950 without the case and an aftermarket HSF).

In short, I do🙁
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holy fudge that's expensive....what all are you upgrading???! I hope for that price you're goig watercooling or something? or new monitor maybe?
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lol.. Sorry me and my math. I actually miscalculated.The problem since I am upgrading to a toally different platform couldnt salvage any parts from my previous PC, except for the DVD burner(NEC 3500) and my dell 20'' 2005FP.. here is the break up(all from newegg)

E6600 - $369.99
ASUS P5WDH - $269.99
2GB TWIN2X2048-6400C4 -$256.00
320GB 7200.10 seagate -$94.99
Seasonic s12-600W - $154.99
EVGA GF7950GX2 -$519.99
AS5+AS cleaning kit - $21.98

Total, up until now(including S&H) -$1699.26

I am planning to get the P180b-(around $140 shipped) and some good hsf(around $60) and the SD595(around $200) and maybe(if I am not satisfied with the onboard sound), an Xi-fi platinum(aroung $200). My budget was like $3000.
 
even though the rig in my sig was just recently finished...thats our home theater computer and not the one i use for gaming/daily stuff - which has a p4 2.4C @ 3.0Ghz, 2GB of PC4000 ram, 6600GT, etc. runs perfectly fine. nothing terribly wrong with it, but i think a faster card would be nice, but most of the games run 1280x1024 so im happy with it.
 
Have it myself; however I'm waiting until the DX10 dust has settled a bit and Vista has undergone some post-releasing patching. Then I'll build myself a top-of the line system (about a year from now I gather).

My current PC is still holding up pretty well, so no need for now.

 
Originally posted by: Noema
Have it myself; however I'm waiting until the DX10 dust has settled a bit and Vista has undergone some post-releasing patching. Then I'll build myself a top-of the line system (about a year from now I gather).
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Considering that VISTA is being released next year, the 'dust will settle' more like in 2 years from now if anything..
 
Yeah I know what you mean

My CPU (3000+) is not very powerfuly, but I have no need for a better CPU.

I've been looking at the 3800+x2, but im not sure I want to spend $150 on this new upgrade

 
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