Biggest 'WOW!' factor from a component you've upgraded?

It would have to be when I got my Creative 3D Blaster Voodoo II 12MB and added it to my Matrox Mystique 220.

The change from software mode to hardware mode in gaming was and still is the biggest change I've noticed, and WOWed me the most!
 
When I built my brother a new PC using a Coolermaster Centurion case. I was so impressed that it had screwless drive bays...

If I didn't love my Antec Plusview 1000 so much, I'd ditch it for one of those bad boys straightaway.
 
went from a ati rage pro 8mb to geforce 3 64mb, biggest upgrade EVER for me, first card i bought

went from playing TFC, CS and HL on something daft like 480x320 (or similar) in software mode to OpenGL 1024x768 @ 100fps

was awesome
 
SoundsGood said:
Crap in crap out !
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I find onboard sound on most decent mobos perfectly acceptable these days.

Fair enough if you have like £500+ of speaker set up, but for a normal user, onboard is fine.

I got an EMU 0404 when I was producing music, and whilst it was great for that, I couldn't really tell much difference between it and decent onboard when just playing music.
 
From my first computer from 1995 to my 2001 computer. The first one cost me £3000, it had 16MB RAM, 600MB hard drive, 700MHz CPU etc, and that was the ultimate top of the range one. The second one cost me about £1800 and had 256MB RAM, 1GHz CPU, 20GB HDD.

I couldn't believe the performance increase. Seems silly compared to today's standards.
 
It was. It was like having three 9800 GX2s in Tri Sli back then.

May have been 600Mhz on second thoughts. I'll dig the receipt out if it hasn't faded away.
 
Now that i think about it... going from software rendering with a 2d Ati Mach 64 4mb to a 3d Geforce 4 mx 64mb was pretty cool too
 
Steve2000 said:
From my first computer from 1995 to my 2001 computer. The first one cost me £3000, it had 16MB RAM, 600MB hard drive, 700MHz CPU etc, and that was the ultimate top of the range one. The second one cost me about £1800 and had 256MB RAM, 1GHz CPU, 20GB HDD.

I couldn't believe the performance increase. Seems silly compared to today's standards.
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lol no chance!! I had a PII 450 in 1998 which was bleeding edge stuff! I had a Compaq P100, 8MB, 1GB HDD and 6x CD Rom (Which you could hear spinning up throughout the whole house!!) at Xmas 1995 which cost around £1800. It managed 4.5 FPS in Halflife TFC on Software :p

You're talking 1999-2000 for a 700MHZ PIII/Athlon equivelant
 
Right just dug out the receipt, I can just make out the writing.

You're right, it's not 700MHZ (don't know where I got that from :p), it's 100MHz, with 8MB RAM not 16. Even worse than I thought. :rolleyes:
 
Mr. Brightside said:
You mean 70MHz?

We had a Gateway 2000 in 1995 - Pentium I 100MHz, 24mB RAM (upgraded from 16mB), 6gB hard disk (upgraded from 1gB). Can't remember the CDROM speed.
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:) I had a 286-20 in 1990 ish I think and upgrade the board to a 386dx33 and then a 486 dx2 66 went into to it. It had whopping great big :D 40MB HD. There was no CD drive. Everthing came on floppies. Not the newer 3.5 1.44 modern version either. ;) It was the 5.25 1.2mb floppies that were bendy in a type of reinforced cardboard.
 
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