What computer upgrade has made you go WOW?

Going from a ZX81 to a Commodor 16. Going from a BBC Master to a Mac Classic. The most recent is my 27" iMac with second display.

I got a slight smile from various PC part upgrades but not any one that made me go WOW!!!

56k dialup to broadband was a wow moment, however going from 2mb to 10mb to 20mb was a little meh and I should imagine that when I go to 50mb it will be less than pant droppingly exciting...
 
256MB -> 512MB RAM (not having to wait 20min for the PC to recover after exiting a game :p)
GF2 MX200 -> GF4 Ti4800SE
15" CRT -> 17" TFT

Have upgraded many things since then, but none of them have really had that much of a night/day difference.
 
kevmeister said:
upgrading my amiga 1200 from 2mb to 10mb (8mb add-in card) wow it was amazing.
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I was going to say putting my first ever HD in my 1200.

Cost me a fortune and was around 40mb or something like that. compared to running WB from floppys :)

I also loved my 3" "floppy" on my amstrad CPC464. action replay cart and moved most of my games to disks.

Im doubting that a SSD will put such a smile on my face but most big PC upgrades are systems rather than just one component
 
Also 1x CD writer to a 4x CD writer.

The blank CD's were so expensive i used to burn everything at 1x just to be safe.
 
Yamahahahahaha said:
From 56k to 512k ADSL.
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I got 512k when it first came out to test in Milton keynes (strangly a test location but one of the last places to get good coverage due to strange wiring)

Engineer install and it was down as much as up the first few months but I'm not joking when i say people used to come round to my place just to see what it was like.

Now im stuck on 2mb when im in the UK and the rest of the world has left me in its wake :(
 
Building Candy said:
USB to USB2 , data transfere speed increase was mucho impressive
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That too.

Another WOW moment was upgrading my PC case from one that couldn't fit 120mm fans nor a tall CPU cooler to a Lian-Li. Needless to say the moment was short lived because since its made out of aluminium the case is prone to rattling if not cleaned often. Still like it & will remain for awhile.

Oh & ball mouse to optical/laser! Remember constantly opening them up to clean inside, etc.
 
Yup, it has to be dialup to broadband.

I don't get that much out of hardware upgrades because I don't let it get out of date, it isn't often there are many games I can't play at decent settings.

So I suppose when I first got into gaming and went from a Voodoo3 to a nVidia Ti4200.

Jedi Kinght 2/3 - , Tiberian Sun, Red Alert 2, Team Fortress and Counter Strike. ahhh.
 
2mb Matrox Mystique 220 ----> 12mb Voodoo II


The biggest leap in graphics I've ever seen.


And, 56k ----> 512kb cable modem - massive jump in speed, and massive reduction in latency.
 
Switching from a ball mouse to my first optical mouse, a Microsoft Intellimouse, also, going from a Geforce 4 MX 420 to a Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro. I'll still remember when we had an old AMD Duron 750 and then a big box came to the house one day when my dad built me my very first proper PC. The beast that was my Socket A 3.2GHz AMD Athlon, with the Radeon 9800 Pro inside and an eye watering 512MB of RAM. That flew!
 
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Going from onboard graphics (8mb iirc) to a Geforce256 when they'd just come out.
Huge leap for me :D

Impressively the card still works too after 9-10 years :)
 
CRT to TFT.
Dial up to ISDN.
Single core to dual core.
A few graphics card changes.
HD to SSD.

My new build will no doubt put me into orbit.
 
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