How often do you upgrade your PC?

Whenever i feel it's necessary or i feel i want too, so could be 6 months or 3 years.

Next upgrade is swapping out my 3930K for the 4930K when Ivy-E is released. But i'm focussing on the HP Microserver at the moment, saving to get 4x 2Tb WD Reds in RAID-5 and a 4TB drive in my external E-SATA enclosure for backup.

But once that's done, nothing for a while due to buying a house. Overall my computer upgrades budget has been pretty much scrapped once i move in.
 
Haven't updated mine in almost 3 years, and even then most of it was 2nd hand. I feel like hardware is advancing faster than software. My rig still plays everything current well enough for me.
 
mrk said:
That's both impressive and disturbing. Did you turn the keyboard upside down to see what falls out? :D
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I've had the same keyboard for over 12 years, it's perfect for FPS games and I refuse to change it as it's in perfect condition (and clean).
 
I tend to upgrade based on the games I want to play at max settings. My current rig just about manages this at 1080p, but in about 6 months I'll be upping my graphics card and then about a year later the motherboard, CPU and ram will get upped and probably a nice beefy SSD to replace my ever shrinking M4.

Upgrading my PC is about the closest I get as an adult to being a fiver year old on Christmas morning. :D
 
My current CPU is an AM2 X2 4800+, running with 4Gb of DDR2 on W7. That handles everything I throw at it so I see no need to upgrade at all. As someone else said earlier, my current kit no longer reaches 100% on anything so I don't need any more power.
Having said that, my CPU has started to overheat (100C !!!) so it might be upgrade time unless I can figure out why (and it's not the HSF/paste, before you ask).
 
The longest I ever went 'clean' was 2 years, but that was long time ago. My last upgrade was in the run up to Christmas and that was to an ATI 7850 2GB graphics card, which should last me a while yet.

With a nice SSD/HDD combo and plenty of ram I don't feel any need to upgrade that part of my system either. The CPU/mobo combo is a sticking point as it's reached the end of the upgrade path, but that will have to wait until Christmas, at the very earliest.


I used to be an utter upgrading maniac back in the heady days of 2002-2005. I dread to think how much money I spent then. :eek:
 
I normally upgrade when there is a big enough of a performance jump

I dont go in for this "its 5% better in certain applications"

Currently on sandybridge. I dont like ivy or haswell, only tiny performance upgrades, and Intel is cheaping out with paste.

I might wait for the ivy-e stuff if they dont cheap out on that too
 
Bought my current set up at the back end of 2010 (i5-760) but in the time since I have bought a new case, replaced the H50 with a NH-D14, upgraded the graphics card from a 6870 to a 7950, replaced a Vertex 2E 60Gb with a 256GB M4 and replaced the 4GB XMS3 with 8GB Hyper X, So Probably spent an additional c£550 in the 2 and a half years, although the old SSD and memory went in my HTPC.

Was considering upgrading my CPU & Mobo with Haswell, but its not really tempted me seeing as I can cope well enough playing at 1440p with a second screen running at 1080p
 
Been on a Phenom II 955BE since October 2011.

Only changes since then are GPU - GTS450 -> Onboard HD4250 and now back to a GTX460

and 4Gb OCZ Platinum 1600mhz (9-9-9-30) to 4Gb Mushkin Radioactive 1704mhz (7-8-7-24)

My next upgrade will be around christmas/new year. Possibly a little later depending what hardware is available at the time as Steam Roller is likely to suck and I don't think haswell is being replaced until around Q2 2014 and I don't want to buy into another dead platform like last time round.
 
mrk said:
You had the same mouse and keyboard for 8 years?

That's both impressive and disturbing. Did you turn the keyboard upside down to see what falls out? :D
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surprisingly nothing much due to the design of the keyboard. It has also been attacked with mr sheen and a duster on many occasions. :D

horribly difficult keyboard to use and very impractical but somehow I lived with it for so long.
 
Specs in sig, should last me a while.

If I'm going to be upgrading something, it's going to be the GPU, I can't see replacing my CPU anytime soon, I have more than enough RAM and with a total of 6TB~ storage, I won't be running out of space for a while.
 
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