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What computer upgrade has made you go WOW?
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I went from a P4 1.6Ghz / 5800 GFZ to an AMD FX53 (iirc) with two cards in (6800GT's) SLi, one of the first (again iirc) motherboards to get it, K8NXP-SLi? Great board, and its still in use today!
I put it all in the Coolermaster Blue door case, the noise was so loud but the system was awesome.
I mainly put it down to the CPU / Memory bandwidth, then the 2x6800 for GFX but they never really impressed me as much as I thought they would.
Hmmm.
I put it all in the Coolermaster Blue door case, the noise was so loud but the system was awesome.
I mainly put it down to the CPU / Memory bandwidth, then the 2x6800 for GFX but they never really impressed me as much as I thought they would.
Hmmm.
Went from a 3Ghz P4 with 1Gb ram / Radeon 9800 pro connected to a 15" Sony tft to a 2.8 Ghz C2D / 4Gb 24" iMac.
Impressed would be an understatement at the transition.
It was like going from the stone age to the space age.
Impressed would be an understatement at the transition.
It was like going from the stone age to the space age.
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<oldmanvoice>1200BPS? I remember the days of 960BPS, you didn't need any faster than that or it would melt your brains</oldmanvoice>
I've done SSH and usenet sessions over a painful 9600BPS back in the day when I first got a mobile phone ('98-'99ish), and was on the Orange Everyday 50. Could download e-mails and stuff using up some of my 50 free minutes
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my gf is 15' laptop for 7 years to a 24' dell and going from Sims 1 to CS:S + Half Life 2
mine is going from 5200FX to 9800GTX and amd K7 @ 400Mhz to Q9450 @ 3.2Ghz
mine is going from 5200FX to 9800GTX and amd K7 @ 400Mhz to Q9450 @ 3.2Ghz
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Overclocking my old E2140 to 3GHz from 1.6GHz. Suddenly new games became playable.
Edit: Oh also pretty much all of my graphics card upgrades, though they've all been pretty big leaps.
Edit again: Actually the CPU that I had before my E2140 was a 1.1GHz Tualatin-256 Celeron. So... yeah. Big leaps all around.
Edit: Oh also pretty much all of my graphics card upgrades, though they've all been pretty big leaps.
Edit again: Actually the CPU that I had before my E2140 was a 1.1GHz Tualatin-256 Celeron. So... yeah. Big leaps all around.
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PC -> Mac
Awaits flaming.
Awaits flaming.
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Going from a 3.4 Pentium 4 to a (OCd) 3.6 Phenom II x3.
Until then I thought having to wait several minutes to actually start a program was normal.
To a lesser extend going from a standard 7200RPM mechanical HD to an SSD.
Until then I thought having to wait several minutes to actually start a program was normal.
To a lesser extend going from a standard 7200RPM mechanical HD to an SSD.
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I WIN,
Going from a nVidia 8400Gs to a ATI 5970 card
Beat that
oh yeah.
What about going from a set of punch cards to an i7 980x Extreme !
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Going from um 2d card's to Nvidea TNT2 then the allmighty voodoo 5500!
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The first Voodoo card. Very expensive, still needed my old card to do 2D, supported by almost nothing at the time. It had only just been released.
The driver disc contained a demo of a tower. I watched it. Then I watched it again. Then I phoned a friend and gibbered at him about it. He came round. He watched the demo. He went straight to the shop and bought a Voodoo card himself. I don't think he even asked how much it cost.
Far and away the most spectacular upgrade I've ever had.
EDIT: I've thought back a bit further and got another possible candidate. From ZX-81 to 48K Spectrum. I spent 6 weeks picking runner beans full time to buy that and it was worth it.
The driver disc contained a demo of a tower. I watched it. Then I watched it again. Then I phoned a friend and gibbered at him about it. He came round. He watched the demo. He went straight to the shop and bought a Voodoo card himself. I don't think he even asked how much it cost.
Far and away the most spectacular upgrade I've ever had.
EDIT: I've thought back a bit further and got another possible candidate. From ZX-81 to 48K Spectrum. I spent 6 weeks picking runner beans full time to buy that and it was worth it.
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If you've been knocking around PC's and home computers for far too many years, there are numerous moments of course. First GFX upgrade (Diamond Stealth 3400 - 4MB VRAM ), first 3D card (Orchid Righteous), dial up to broadband amongst others.
But the biggest for me has to be HDD to SSD. That's a proper wow moment.
), first 3D card (Orchid Righteous), dial up to broadband amongst others.But the biggest for me has to be HDD to SSD. That's a proper wow moment.
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Back in the day my upgrade from a GeForce 2 MX440 fo a GeForce 4 Ti4600 was pretty bloody impressive (Then when the TI4600 died I got a Radeon 9800Pro and that was a step up too)
More recently, my upgrade from an athlon 64 @ 2.6GHz to this system with the Core2Duo @ 3.0 (when I got it) was an awesome difference
Oh and even further back in the day was my first 3D graphics card - the Matrox Mistique (was that 3DFX?) bundled with Mechwarrior 2 to show off the 3D graphics!! LOL Had months of fun with that game lol
More recently, my upgrade from an athlon 64 @ 2.6GHz to this system with the Core2Duo @ 3.0 (when I got it) was an awesome difference
Oh and even further back in the day was my first 3D graphics card - the Matrox Mistique (was that 3DFX?)
bundled with Mechwarrior 2 to show off the 3D graphics!! LOL Had months of fun with that game lol