Posting in another thread made me think about asking this question as I have known for quite some time that I am an upgrade addict - seriously, if something can be upgraded then I will upgrade it.
I like playing video games, regardless of the platform they are on. I currently have a PS4 which does the job quite adequately, but I used to be more of a hardcore PC gamer, until I realised that I was never satisfied and always wanted better performance.
The last gaming PC I built cost me over £2000 (all money spent OcUK by the way) and I spent a lot more time overclocking, tweaking, memory stress testing and thinking about the next upgrade than I did actually playing games on it.
So, once I suspected I had a problem, I sold my lovely gaming system and spent £1400 on a gaming laptop instead, with the reasoning that as it's a laptop I couldn't upgrade it. Within two weeks of owning the new laptop however, I had doubled the amount of RAM and upgraded to a faster 7200rpm HDD as well (that was tip top at the time) - I just can't help myself!
It didn't stop when I switched to console gaming either - damn you Sony for making the HDD's upgradable on the PS3...!!!
I take careful steps now with things I buy to stop the urge to constantly upgrade it. Even my latest phone (a Nexus 5) was chosen purely because you cannot upgrade the battery and there is no MicroSD card slot (I upgraded the battery twice and upped the speed and size of the MicroSD card three times on my last phone).
Even this laptop I am typing on now, a lowly Fujitsu Lifebook, has recently aquired a shiny new SSHD hybrid drive, double the RAM it started with and a Class 10 SD card being used for Readyboost, even though I wasn't experiencing any performance issues and use it for little more than internet browsing, Excel and Word etc. After stumbling across a YouTube video of someone upgrading a laptop CPU I almost instantly went online searching to see if this lappy can be upgraded from an i3 to an i7 - luckily it can't.
Thankfully, with the help of the love of my life plus the fact that we went through a very tough finacial period, I think I have about kicked the addiction - almost... but damn Elite Dangerous looks so good, it just makes me want to build a serious gaming rig again to play it on - I do hope it comes to the PS4 at some point.
Does anyone else on here suffer from this dreadful infliction?
I like playing video games, regardless of the platform they are on. I currently have a PS4 which does the job quite adequately, but I used to be more of a hardcore PC gamer, until I realised that I was never satisfied and always wanted better performance.
The last gaming PC I built cost me over £2000 (all money spent OcUK by the way) and I spent a lot more time overclocking, tweaking, memory stress testing and thinking about the next upgrade than I did actually playing games on it.
So, once I suspected I had a problem, I sold my lovely gaming system and spent £1400 on a gaming laptop instead, with the reasoning that as it's a laptop I couldn't upgrade it. Within two weeks of owning the new laptop however, I had doubled the amount of RAM and upgraded to a faster 7200rpm HDD as well (that was tip top at the time) - I just can't help myself!
It didn't stop when I switched to console gaming either - damn you Sony for making the HDD's upgradable on the PS3...!!!
I take careful steps now with things I buy to stop the urge to constantly upgrade it. Even my latest phone (a Nexus 5) was chosen purely because you cannot upgrade the battery and there is no MicroSD card slot (I upgraded the battery twice and upped the speed and size of the MicroSD card three times on my last phone).
Even this laptop I am typing on now, a lowly Fujitsu Lifebook, has recently aquired a shiny new SSHD hybrid drive, double the RAM it started with and a Class 10 SD card being used for Readyboost, even though I wasn't experiencing any performance issues and use it for little more than internet browsing, Excel and Word etc. After stumbling across a YouTube video of someone upgrading a laptop CPU I almost instantly went online searching to see if this lappy can be upgraded from an i3 to an i7 - luckily it can't.
Thankfully, with the help of the love of my life plus the fact that we went through a very tough finacial period, I think I have about kicked the addiction - almost... but damn Elite Dangerous looks so good, it just makes me want to build a serious gaming rig again to play it on - I do hope it comes to the PS4 at some point.
Does anyone else on here suffer from this dreadful infliction?
