How often do you guys upgrade your components?

varkanoid said:
You'll eventually find the upgrade merry go round soon tires as you get older and realise it can be pointless. IMHO your recent upgrades show it. I used to be a bit like that but looking at your recent upgrades you've still got it bad.
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Depends what you're upgrading from though, doesn't it?

I mean sure those who already had decent systems like 47xxK and up, who upgraded to Kaby Lake probably didn't get much of a boost. But at least they're funding the industry for the others I suppose!
 
gfx card every year or every other year as they still improve relatively quickly, cpu's probably every 4 or 5 years. There really isn't any point in a new one of those any earlier. Hard drives and other components when they wear out and not before, oh and a PC case can be 5 years before I get sick of the sight of it.
 
moogle said:
Depends what you're upgrading from though, doesn't it?

I mean sure those who already had decent systems like 47xxK and up, who upgraded to Kaby Lake probably didn't get much of a boost. But at least they're funding the industry for the others I suppose!
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Or are people that just upgrade to the latest CPU regardless of performance improvement hampering innovation?
 
NeverWinter said:
Or are people that just upgrade to the latest CPU regardless of performance improvement hampering innovation?
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You could say so! I guess Intel can just spin out meagre performance increases and still reap the benefits. Fingers crossed for Ryzen coming out well placed :)
 
The-Hoff said:
I probably go a bit more OTT than most. There a 3 things I definitely change annually without fail, and my most recent upgrades were -

GPU (Titan X Maxwell to GTX 1080)
MB (ROG VIII Extreme Z170 to ROG IX Formula)
CPU (i7 6700k to i7 7700k)

I know most people buy these things to last them a few years but I just like keeping current and I enjoy tinkering with new hardware.
Also as a bonus, my older hardware is still pretty new so when I come to sell it I get good prices and have to put very little to my new gear.
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thats me as well....as soon as i get bored i sell on and get new stuff....sad really aint it
 
I've definitely upgraded more often than I needed to, my old system with it's 2500k is still kicking and plenty fast for most tasks, and I would probably still be happy using it if my main system went down for whatever reason.

GPU upgrades have been more significant though, I'm not sure I could go back to my old GTX 670 for very long, but I really didn't need to go from 980>980ti>1080, I probably would have done better to skip one upgrade (was planning to wait for 1080Ti but I was weak :P)
 
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