ever upgraded and didnt stop ?

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as title really.

i upgraded my graphic's card about a month ago and that was all i wanted to do.

but i didnt stop....new mobo....hard drive.....cpu......ram......water cooling.

now £500 later it seem's the upgrade on the graphics card was more than i wanted to spend.

has anyone done a similar thing lately.
 
but i could have used my old ram in the new board.

what im saying is....did anyone mean to keep upgrading in such a short time.
 
Yeah, I almost did this at Christmas. It started with a new mobo into which I plugged an E6850 and my 8800GT. Then I got an Antec 300 for Christmas so had to do my build again from the ground up.

Just before this I started having naughty thoughts about quads and DDR3.

Luckily I saw sense so come next Christmas I'll get more for my money and be able to buy one of you suckers GTX280's for 60 quid and a shed load of DDR3 for peanuts. Hopefully. :D
 
it all started for me when i sold my x box 360 for £270.

that brought my card,then i sold my old card and gave me more money and the rest is history.

but to be fair it hasnt cost me that much really apart from the stuff i have sold.

my last purchase was a Q6000 with which i sold my technics surround system....seam's kinda fair to me.

but i have finished now for another 2 year's....lol
 
schizo220168 said:
but i could have used my old ram in the new board.

what im saying is....did anyone mean to keep upgrading in such a short time.
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yer I did, only meant to upgrade my gfx card from a gf4ti4200 as I spilt tea over it :(

Ended up getting a new mobo.ram etc etc as it was cheap.
 
Once on my birthday I was drunk and left bids on a 'a auction site' for a x2 3800 and a Opteron 146 before I went out, couldn't remember buying the the next day, I think I had a 3500 at the time, I had 3 CPUs and only 1 motherboard!

Spend around £180 on a Asetek? watercooling kit, even though everyone recommended Swifttech, I wanted the LCD display. :/

Also at 1 time bought another Mach 3 phase cooler as I broke the first one, got the broken 1 upgraded with a Chilly1 head but when I got it I saw the light and sold it.

I also bought a Silverstone TJ07 for £220, managed to scratch it and sold for £80 on 'a auction site.
 
In 2005 I wanted to upgrade to a bigger HDD, then noticed this SATA thing was getting big, so that was a new mobo, then the AGP GFX needed to be a PCIe, then I had to go to DDR. And as it was a new board it was an ATX 2, so a new PSU was in order. The Antec LANboy was ok though, I miss that case.

I asked my dad for some more RAM a year ago and he noted how much cheap DDR2 was, and said how about a new mobo and CPU as well as it was only a little bit more compared to the price of DDR.
 
I bought a pc 2 years ago from OcUK, it was the best system I ever had, haven't stopped upgrading it since lol, although I can't really class it as the same system now.
 
This is the main point about buying a PC.

Upgrading the graphics card, the motherboard, the RAM, the CPU, the memory, changing your mouse, keyboard, (in particular I am really finnicky about - I've searched high and low and never found the *perfect* mouse/keyboard), a wireless network adapter, maybe the soundcard if you are creatively-inclined, fiddling with Vista then reverting to XP, benchmarking DX10 Crysis vs DX9, playing with the RAID stripe setup, patching games, reinstalling drivers multiple times in varying orders...

This is what makes computing fun. I could never live with a console.
 
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