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This is an uneventful time to upgrade a computer!

Serradifalco

Serradifalco

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The only real exciting upgrade I can see right now is an SSD maybe. Outside of that, things look pretty stagnant. I have been itching to ugrade something, but have come up uninspired every time. I, by no means, have a cutting-edge system, but can find no way to significantly improve it. I was looking at a GPU upgrade, but came up short. My GTX260 sli cost me under $300 several months ago. There is nothing significantly better in that price range to upgrade to currently. I would probably be looking at a GTX480 for $500 to notice a marginal difference in performance. Or maybe GTX470 sli for $700 to notice a significant difference in performance. DX11 won't be mainstream for a while yet.

The CPU side of things looks even more dismal. Nothing really to mention there. Well, there is the $1000 Intel offering... well maybe not... well definitely not. PSU... no. RAM... no. USB 3.0 or SATA 3? Not too much out there to take advantage of it currently. Maybe 6 months will bring bigger and better things. Meanwhile, the money can just collect interest.
🙁 🙂
 
Cool story.

You've got a computer with parts "several months" old. If you send me that money burning a hole in your bank account, I can upgrade some parts that are several years old. Won't that be a satisfying upgrade? I'll send you pictures and handwritten letters with updates about how the new components are going. It'll be just like those adopt-a-third-world-child programs.
 
Just get a X25-M or OCZ Vertex 2. It'll make more of a difference in general use than any other upgrade.
 
Swivelguy2 said:
Cool story.

You've got a computer with parts "several months" old. If you send me that money burning a hole in your bank account, I can upgrade some parts that are several years old. Won't that be a satisfying upgrade? I'll send you pictures and handwritten letters with updates about how the new components are going. It'll be just like those adopt-a-third-world-child programs.
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Come on... give a guy a break! I spend $200 - $300 every few months on one of my only hobbies. 😉 That is how I pacify my wife, anyways! As computer enthusiasts, we do get great deals online by hanging out on forums like these. You gotta love no tax and free shipping! I am not really into adopting anything overseas, but then again I never really gave computer parts any consideration. 🙂

mfenn said:
Just get a X25-M or OCZ Vertex 2. It'll make more of a difference in general use than any other upgrade.
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That is the one upgrade I have heavily considered. I have been looking at the Intel 80gb model which right now is $195 at Ewiz less 3% Bing. It would be a good boot drive for me. My current boot drive only has 35gb on it. I have a seperate game drive and storage drive. That would hold me over for 6 months until things get interesting again. Thanks for the feedback.
 
SSD(s) indeed. :wub:

As soon as i'd gotten my first one (X25-M 80 GB G1), i wanted one for games too, so i got the Agility 120 GB (Steam folder on there).
 
sandorski said:
Depends on the start point. It was very Eventful for me when I Upgraded to an X6 from a Socket 939 X2.
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Great point! Sometimes I forget that some people hold on to their computers fo many years. So I guess it would make it uneventful for some and eventful for others.
 
I would probably wait for an upgrade if I were you. Unless you want the bleeding edge technology asap. But atm, lets see what ati or nvidia has to offer.
 
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