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Oh the humanity!
Seeing a mate play the Mechwarrior 2 city level on his PC.
1st time I played EVE online.
Upgrading from a 19" CRT to a 24" widescreen.
What computer upgrade has made you go WOW?
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Oh the humanity!
Seeing a mate play the Mechwarrior 2 city level on his PC.
1st time I played EVE online.
Upgrading from a 19" CRT to a 24" widescreen.
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For me getting a SSD and a new install of Win 7 64bit 
Boot up and shut down is so fast it was an unreal upgrade from slow vista boot up on HDD
Boot up and shut down is so fast it was an unreal upgrade from slow vista boot up on HDD
This thread makes me want an SSD.
The biggest wows for me were
3DFX...this really was game changing. Video card upgrades these days are evolution. That was revolution.
The Internet..Email ! - seriously, sending few lines to someone in the US and getting a reply within the day was amazing !...sure we had faxes but this was on the computer !
Web browsing...No more Telnet sessions..look even images that you can see right there on the screen !
Leased line internet connection (64k was the first one) ...no more going to one of the office PC's with a modem, being able to access the net from your own desk via the LAN was a huge leap.
Frankly, most of the other stuff has just been more of the same, but slightly faster each time, or with more graphical fluff that soon becomes tiresome.
The biggest wows for me were
3DFX...this really was game changing. Video card upgrades these days are evolution. That was revolution.
The Internet..Email ! - seriously, sending few lines to someone in the US and getting a reply within the day was amazing !...sure we had faxes but this was on the computer !
Web browsing...No more Telnet sessions..look even images that you can see right there on the screen !
Leased line internet connection (64k was the first one) ...no more going to one of the office PC's with a modem, being able to access the net from your own desk via the LAN was a huge leap.
Frankly, most of the other stuff has just been more of the same, but slightly faster each time, or with more graphical fluff that soon becomes tiresome.
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Going from a rubbish 2mb display card to an 8mb ATI with SLI'ed 12mb Voodoo 2's (£500 upgrade for the 2 voodoo's) and then playing Unreal.
Kind of agree with that. Upgrading to an ATI 4850 did not make me go jaw-dropping WOW, but playing CoD4 on it did
Someone should start a petition to bring back the mechanical "click" for modern Nvidia cards whenever a game loads
'click' - repackaged gpu technology engaged
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ball mouse to an Optical mouse
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17" TFT to a 20" widescreen, holy crap!
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2Mb intel GFX card to a 12Mb Voodoo2 GFX card. It let me play CS in OpenGL. oooh the smoothness..
Bundled with Mechwarrior 2
Amazing and made me think the AST 133mhz pc was a supercomputer!
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Onboard graphics - dedicated graphics card. Even if it was just an 8400
I'd need a hundred of those just for my porn.
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The only one which has actually made me go "wow" was changing monitors! Everything else just gives more FPS in games and acts nearly the same in Windows (windows 7 was a nice upgrade, but not "wow"). I'm not exactly on a low end PC either (quad core i7, 6gb RAM, 4970).. I just don't find the upgrades all that impressive for normal use. An SSD might be worth a look though.
Ahh Turok, I remember it well
I think that and Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight were I think the first 3D games I had, along with my Voodoo card.
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From single core to dual core then nothing to dual core again with a 4850 as it's friend... Sweet sweet gaming justice! \o/