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Upgrades - needs versus wants

Upgrade, Want or Need?

  • Want

  • Need

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VirtualLarry

VirtualLarry

No Lifer
So, should I upgrade? If I want I could get a SB gaming rig with SLI mobo, to kick some ass in Skyrim, or I could update my HTPC with an unlocked quad-core LLano.

Or I could do nothing, since my current computers satisfy my needs.

What do other people upgrade for? Want or need?
 
If the HTPC fills your needs, I don't see how upgrading it would add any extra benefit beyond those needs. I mean, it's a HTPC.

I can see the gaming PC upgrade being worthwhile though. Depends solely on how much value you place on a) gaming and b) money. In technical terms yeah it'd be a pretty big upgrade (2500K and SLI)
 
I am using a Core 2 Duo E6850 @ 3.0 GHZ with 2gb ram and an Nvidia 210 video card.

I think I NEED an upgrade!
 
the best upgrade is when you upgrade your most powerful machine and give the spare parts to others for a chain-upgrade.
 
Aren't upgrades always wants? I don't need my system. I don't need to play games at all. But I sure want to 🙂
 
lehtv said:
You need a system in order to fulfill your want of playing games.
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So is that a want or a need? :awe:

I didn't answer the poll because I'm not sure how my situation fits. I only upgrade when I need to in order to run a game that I want to play at all max and with a reasonable framerate.
 
In order to avoid these situations, upgrade every 2-3 years regardless of what your wants or needs are during that time. Its worked out pretty well for me so far.
 
I'm in the "need" category, mainly because, intentional or not, I wind up upgrading once every 5 years.

My current build was intended to be upgraded piece by piece slowly as time went on, but every time something new came out, I simply couldn't justify paying extravagant prices for a sometimes meager performance boost.

However, my eyes are set on an IVB + AMD 7k series + 16-32GB of ram upgrade, depending on how 8gb DIMMs look in April. My current system is still okay, and the SSD is helping, but my god is it slow in Lightroom. If I have to send something to Photoshop for further work, it's over. 🙁
 
One of my friends is firmly in the "need" category.

He has a single-core Athlon 64 S939 rig with onboard video and 1GB of RAM. Unsure of OS, probably XP. Says he has had the system for six years.

I've been trying to get him to upgrade his computer, I told him I could build him something light-years faster for like $200-300, minus OS.

But he just says, "only if my current computer dies".

I told him to check for bad caps on the motherboard next time he dusts it out.



My mom is still on a single-core C2D Celeron 440 chip. I built her an AMD dual-core, last year, but she has yet to install it. I told her to return the new computer to me, and I'd drop in a quad-core for her, and she said, "why do I need a quad-core? My current computer is fine".
 
VirtualLarry said:
One of my friends is firmly in the "need" category
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Sounds to me like he's in neither the need nor want category.

I know these creatures seem as fantastic as Bigfoot, but there are people who use a computer once or twice per week for 30 minutes total. They check their AOL email account, and maybe look at a few photos, and that's it. A socket 939 single core with 1GB of DDR1 is sufficient for that.
 
I am in the want category. I get upgrade fever and if I don't submit then money gets spent on clothes or food. I prefer to stay dirty and hungry as long as my computer is state of the art.
 
Spikesoldier said:
the best upgrade is when you upgrade your most powerful machine and give the spare parts to others for a chain-upgrade.
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Can confirm.

I have a 'server' running ESXi. I had some issues with the parts in it, so decided I would upgrade my main desktop and cycle parts around elsewhere.

Now, the wife has a C2Q 6600 (upgraded from a C2D 6600), my server has a Athlon x4 3.0GHz CPU, and I have an i5 4670.

Next stop is an HTPC I think, but that is going to be purpose built parts.
 
NewYorksFinest said:
Oh wow...
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That was like 2 years ago. Anyways, I gave him a really good deal on it, and coming from a single-core S939 rig, it was quite an improvement. He's happy with it.

I'd be glad to hook him up with a Haswell i3 CPU at a discounted rate today, but he likes the computer so much he wants to keep it. (At least that was the case six months ago when I bought up the subject of upgrading it to something a little more modern for little / no cost.) I guess he doesn't worry about his electric bill too much.
 
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