Poll: Your Upgrade Stance (poll please)

What upgrade stance do the users of the ocuk forums have?

  • I must have a top of the range pc at all times

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I make occasional upgrades to maintain a high end pc

    Votes: 45 59.2%

  • I rarely buy upgrades but maintain a midrange pc

    Votes: 18 23.7%

  • I rarely buy upgrades and maintain a low range pc

    Votes: 1 1.3%

  • I buy a new pc when my pc stops running smoothly

    Votes: 12 15.8%
  • Total voters
    76

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I was wondering, what upgrade stance do the users of the ocuk forums have?

A upgrade stance is a term I made up, it basically means...your stance to upgrading, how often you upgrade basically.

I think it would be interesting to see where the majority of our posters belong.

Thanks :cool:

  • I must have a top of the range pc at all times
  • I make occasional upgrades to maintain a high end pc
  • I rarely buy upgrades but maintain a midrange pc
  • I rarely buy upgrades and maintain a low range pc
  • I buy a new pc when my pc stops running smoothly
 
Not been a bleeding edge monkey for a while now it's one gen behind which keeps me spot on for 1080p gaming
 
I maintain a high-endish PC that suits my needs (Runs the games I want to), but I make occasional impulse purchases for random stuffs.

Today I ordered 4x steel WASD keycaps from OcUK, and a H100i just over a month ago. Neither were really needed, but I wanted them.

Big upgrades, like GFX or CPU go strictly on need-only basis. The next big upgrade will be for Star Citizen.
 
I rarely buy upgrades but maintain a midrange pc.

It runs everything at ultra, but It's not an i7 with a £200+ GPU, so I'd say it's mid-range
 
I try and keep the PC somewhere between higher end and mid-range and whatever the budget allows. Impossible to keep up to date with everything all the time unless one is filthy rich :D More updates are due for me soon I guess!

I could say I try to maintain the high end pc if I have to choose from given options.
 
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Not been a bleeding edge monkey for a while now it's one gen behind which keeps me spot on for 1080p gaming
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Me too. I plan on a new GFX card in Q1 next year. Followed by a mobo/cpu/ram bundle sometime around Q3 next year.
 
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I maintain a high-endish PC that suits my needs (Runs the games I want to), but I make occasional impulse purchases for random stuffs.

Today I ordered 4x steel WASD keycaps from OcUK, and a H100i just over a month ago. Neither were really needed, but I wanted them.

Big upgrades, like GFX or CPU go strictly on need-only basis. The next big upgrade will be for Star Citizen.
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Spot on for me too :)
 
I try to buy a new pc (near top end but not absolute top) every 3-5 years depending on funds and if I've got to the point where the pc is becoming restrictive in my work (3D rendering etc).

It usually gets some minor upgrades during that time, like storage or ram etc so I suppose I'm a mix of


  • I make occasional upgrades to maintain a high end pc

  • I buy a new pc when my pc stops running smoothly
 
Used to be buy good stuff and wait til its dead. Stance has changed and now upgrading to maintain mid range desktop. Next stuff to change will be cpu, mobo and ram. Waiting for ddr4 before making the switch as I upgraded last time to ddr2 just as ddr3 was just starting out.
 
Not sure where I fall, I used to do upgrade every 2 years back when you could double performance in that time frame, last year i did my first upgrade in 5 years from a q6600. I tend to upgrade full pc's as and when I can see at least doubling of performance but when I do its always high end kit as for this box, with the way performance increases are going im guessing the cpu will probably last me at least until the next socket change and ddr4 is main stream
 
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