What is the best upgrade you have done?

Confused Stu said:
Well worth the expense and time it took me to persuade the wife to let me do it! :)
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And now you have an excuse to get yourself 580 SLI "because otherwise BF3 wont run at that resolution". :D

Emlyn_Dewar said:
I think I'm going to keep it simple and go with the upgrade from ball mouse to optical.
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And yeah, They were a real pain! Even the Razer Boomslang (remember those?) which I never bothered with.

Come to think of it, not really a component upgrade, but going from 64K modem to broadband was probably the most significant. Quake2, Counterstrike, Unreal Tournament, Quake3 CTF... good times!
 
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olivier renault said:
And yeah, They were a real pain! Even the Razer Boomslang (remember those?) which I never bothered with.

Come to think of it, not really a component upgrade, but going from 64K modem to broadband was probably the most significant. Quake2, Counterstrike, Unreal Tournament, Quake3 CTF... good times!
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Agree, it's the things you never really think about but they can make a very large difference to how "nice" it is to use the PC.
Going from 56k to 256k broadband left me in shock, difference it made to online games was massive.
Delta Force 2 on 56k... *shudder*
 
SSD C300 left me feeling a bit cheated. But the SSD, an earlier generation, that went onto the laptop Wow :eek: so much quicker would say that is equal to my main desktop rig now.
 
From a 17" VGA GNR monitor to a full BenQ 24" Widescreen 1080p monitor. I never thought such a simple upgrade would make a big difference!
Had a massive tower on my massive desk and then a tiny 17" monitor. All has changed now though, can watch full HD movies right at my desk.
 
hard to say really. ive only really done two upgrades, and both of them were amazing

1. upgrading from a sempron 3000+ laptop with ATI radeon Xpress 200M graphics that cant even handle HD videos to the PC in my signature

2. upgrading from the standard AMD cooler to the zalman in my sig ~3 months after i got the PC. noise reduction was noticed by my dad when he was in a different room
 
Shows age: Changing my IBM PS/1 with it's 286 10Mhz processor, 1MB RAM and 30MB hard drive for an Opus 486SX, 25Mhz, 4MB RAM and 160MB hard drive. More importantly, it could display more than 256 colours!

Rig upgrades had more impact in 1992.
 
IPAddis said:
Shows age: Changing my IBM PS/1 with it's 286 10Mhz processor, 1MB RAM and 30MB hard drive for an Opus 486SX, 25Mhz, 4MB RAM and 160MB hard drive. More importantly, it could display more than 256 colours!

Rig upgrades had more impact in 1992.
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I was born in 1992.
 
Buying a Voodoo1 card, I dont think anything since has compared to that upgrade. The satisfying click as it swapped in.

GLQuake :cool:
 
Can't decide between

WinMe to WinXP
Upgrading from 4mb ram to 8mb made windows 3.11 lot smoother
HDD to SSD
Pentium 166MMX to 900mhz Duron
 
I think the two best upgrades are either going from a conventional HDD to an SSD or going from a really old rubbish "17 CRT monitor to a lovely LG"22 LCD :)

Getting surround sound for the first time was pretty good as well.
 
Either:
1) Win XP on HDD to Win 7 on SSD - a real step change in performance and usability
2) Upgrade from 22" Acer TN to 27" Hazro IPS monitor - better contrast, vibrant colours and much more real estate
 
1. Pentium D 820 to an i7-950
2. 7600GT to a GTX580.

I can hear things other than my fans again! :) (oh and the performance aint bad either)
 
Probably getting my synchmaster 2443BW. I had some old CRT before and the improvement was just amazing. I still look at it to this day and just think :D Upgrading from a 4850 to 5850 was pretty sweet too.
 
Dropping in my second GTX 460. The first time I've ever had a rig where you can just turn every setting in a game to maximum rather than fiddling around for ages to get the best balance between graphics and performance.
 
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