Hi All
It might seems strange i put this tread up. And the OcUk shop will not like this.
Firstly, for the past several week i have been very sick. Not body sickness but MENTAL sickness. I have been reading treads everywhere about upgrading my system. As you can see from my signature I bought this system over 8 months ago around 1500 pounds (not the BW speakers).
At the time i bought it, i was moving on from my PIII 733 which was 5 yrs old and really can not handle anything besides regular office work. That was all i need for school. For gamming, i have a ps2 which i enjoy playing it. However, the system had its age and it was very reasonable to get a new system, just for faster offfice and school work and a little of entertaining. So far so good.
I enjoy play CS source, fry cry, doom3 and the game i was not able to play in my old system. This system is quite well balance in terms of performance but i went around 500 over the budget but that is quite acceptable.
Then several weeks ago, i bought a game "Oblivion". I relised that the system i had can not handle it within playable level (ok resuloution and HDR). I can not accept this, i feel like my current system is out of date already. And having read through these post around OCUk i even feel worse. I feel like i already pay too much and was not happy with it. Maybe upgrade my GFX should make me happy.
So i think my 7800gt (in my 1500 system), should be retired. I decide to get a x1900xt and sold my 7800gt in almost half price (to original.) Now, i can play Oblivion is very nice resolution. Happy? Not really. I ask myself why should i pay around 200 quids for a game. Worse i feel so guilty of spending too much on something i do not really use it.
Now, the new SLI system is comming out. I also feel that why i choose the x1900xt over the 7900GTX just in case i want to change my MB and CPU. I just kill my upgrade path for some game. This is going nowhere, i more i upgrade i more i feel worse.
I believe there are many people having this kind of problem with their mind. So please i really want to hear from anyone who can get over this. I need some help.
It might seems strange i put this tread up. And the OcUk shop will not like this.
Firstly, for the past several week i have been very sick. Not body sickness but MENTAL sickness. I have been reading treads everywhere about upgrading my system. As you can see from my signature I bought this system over 8 months ago around 1500 pounds (not the BW speakers).
At the time i bought it, i was moving on from my PIII 733 which was 5 yrs old and really can not handle anything besides regular office work. That was all i need for school. For gamming, i have a ps2 which i enjoy playing it. However, the system had its age and it was very reasonable to get a new system, just for faster offfice and school work and a little of entertaining. So far so good.
I enjoy play CS source, fry cry, doom3 and the game i was not able to play in my old system. This system is quite well balance in terms of performance but i went around 500 over the budget but that is quite acceptable.
Then several weeks ago, i bought a game "Oblivion". I relised that the system i had can not handle it within playable level (ok resuloution and HDR). I can not accept this, i feel like my current system is out of date already. And having read through these post around OCUk i even feel worse. I feel like i already pay too much and was not happy with it. Maybe upgrade my GFX should make me happy.
So i think my 7800gt (in my 1500 system), should be retired. I decide to get a x1900xt and sold my 7800gt in almost half price (to original.) Now, i can play Oblivion is very nice resolution. Happy? Not really. I ask myself why should i pay around 200 quids for a game. Worse i feel so guilty of spending too much on something i do not really use it.
Now, the new SLI system is comming out. I also feel that why i choose the x1900xt over the 7900GTX just in case i want to change my MB and CPU. I just kill my upgrade path for some game. This is going nowhere, i more i upgrade i more i feel worse.
I believe there are many people having this kind of problem with their mind. So please i really want to hear from anyone who can get over this. I need some help.
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but I'm perfectly happy with my system.
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. You could also make small upgrades regularly instead of huge overhauls to the computer in one go such as changing the graphics card one time, then the cpu once it has become too slow which might work but i feel just forgetting is good cause it saves you money to spend on other things 