How often do you upgrade?

Hyburnate

Hyburnate

Hyburnate

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Well I err just did some cable management, and now I'm thinking about buying another second hand 460 and putting um in SLI. Perhaps put some money in the bank tomorrow and buying some extensions and braid :p. Sort of errr upgrade itch after less than a week of building. I wish I was rich I'd buy everything I fall in love with :D

So how long can you go without an upgrade or a play?
 
I try to only upgrade if something either breaks or just becomes outdated but this never happens lol, my LGA 1366 setup runs everything i can throw at it with ease but i am still looking at an LGA 2011 upgrade lol
 
i am just like you, i love doing things with computers. I love building them up, and them taking a while to build, but then when its done and running, its boring, because there is nothing else to do.
I always have to be tinkering with something inside the case.

a lot of the time i tend to muck around with cooling ideas, try any ideas to try and drop temps, even 1C, the cooler things run = the higher it can overclock stable.. :D
or a lot of the time after a new build i tend to open the graphics cards up, remove the junk thermal pads and thermal cement ram coolers on the VRAM chips, that helps lower temps etc..

But other than that, i only upgrade when something fails or comes outdated and affects my game plays..
 
Finished my build 6 months ago, already want to change out the motherboard and rebuild from scratch cause my cable management is... horrific :P typical me... My mobo is no good for OC'ing :( can hardly get 4.5GHz out of my i5 whereas my mate can get 5ghz stable on the same volts as my 4.4ghz stable on his Asus Extreme mobo!

Think if i could spend my money differently i would, the things you learn when building a PC :)
 
Lately i have just bought anything i wanted, not because performance was lacking but simply because i wanted something new to build. For me the build is as much fun as using the finished computer. Thankfully i still have a bit more work to do which should quell my upgrade/rebuild itch for a while.
 
Tend to do a complete new system build every 3 years and chuck in a new GPU every 2 years maybe.

That being said I'll only upgrade if I really really need to. BF3 forced me to go quadcore.
 
Usually when I need to, though when I was first into tinkering with PC's it was quite a different story. A new build these days (mobo / cpu) is around every two and a half to four years.
 
From 5 to 10 years ago I'd change things monthly as newer bits of kit arrived whether it was DDR/DDR2 RAM or from AGP to PCIe graphics etc but that was because everything was changing so rapidly that older kit couldn't be used in newer rigs anymore. Once that settled down I stopped building my own and started buying rigs from OcUK just for the ease of use and tend to keep them for about 3 years before upgrading as now I think it's better to upgrade everything simultaneously rather than piecemeal to see the benefits.
 
I'm still on S775 - not for much longer though. My last main 'upgrade' was 3 years ago & the last rebuild was 2 years ago when I bought my 1st SSD. Little sister has asked for an 'upgrade' so she's getting my hand me downs (she's upgrading from S939 x2)
 
When I got back into PC gaming in 99, I'd upgrade something every 6 months.

Now tho I tend to upgrade parts every 2 years or more.
 
my current PC was built at the end of 2007 as far as I can tell from my OCUK orders page. It's a Q6600 based system

I was fortunate in that I had a BFG 8800 GTX card that failed shortly before they went bust or whatever happened to them. The result of that was it got replaced with a 285 GTX OCX so that has kept me going longer without paying for additional parts.

I'm currently putting together my next PC now and am ordering the bits over the next few days. I'd like it last another 4 years but I can't see it happening!
 
I go for about 6-12 months.

I tend to buy just off top spec GPU and CPU and mid range parts with a mild overclock these are usually the most cost effective and sell off the whole system to finance the next one.

I actually end up spending probably less than £500 a year but keep a fairly high spec PC at all times. (and I have done this now for about 20 years)

My priority is having a rock stable system that plays all the latest games well and I spend accordingly.
 
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