What computer upgrade has made you go WOW?

[hyper_piper45]

From 56k to 512k ADSL.

This, I think I blew my mind that day!

 

[squerble]

Definitely 56k to 512k cable broadband.

 

[Wang Computer]

Dial up to cable internet connection. The internet literally changed overnight for me as a result.

 

[G J]

Going from some 1mb Trident PCI card to a Diamond Viper v550 (nVidia TnT)

My god did i love playing GLQuake on that

 

[SinaiSound]

Moved from a s754 3700+ / Ati 1900XT-X setup to a E6600 / 8800GTX setup.....that was pretty decent for sure!

Moving from 500K/sec broadband to this made me jump around the room

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Definitely 56k to 512k cable broadband.

I'd forgot about this.
Easily the most WOW moment because I couldn't stop saying WOW for months.
Opening your web browser and the internet always being on was mind staggering - no more screeches.

 

[Kyle009]

Going from my P4 2ghz to my Q6600 at 3GHZ was definitely my WOW factor.

 

[Tobywon]

56k to 2mb did it for me, used to take a full 2 hours to download 30mb, if the file was bigger than that i couldn't have it. and that really wasnt that many years ago

 

[DEL 707]

Can't remember what it was called exactually, think it was a 3DFX Orchid 3D accelerator. Wasn't a standard graphics card since you had to hook it up to your graphics card, which I remember being some crappy SiS thing

By god the change was amazing, switching from softward to hardware acceleration in games, I was playing Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight at the time and I restarted the game so I could play from the beginning to savour the new glory I had found!

After that I went through a ton of old PCZone CD's to try out all the old demo's I couldn't even touch because I didn't have a accelerator card

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

FX5950U at the time. Despite all the flaws with the FX series, it was very quick.
Made Morrowind all the better!

 

[PermaBanned]

Moved from a s754 3700+ / Ati 1900XT-X setup to a E6600 / 8800GTX setup.....that was pretty decent for sure!

Moving from 500K/sec broadband to this made me jump around the room

Damn, i'm only getting 500k/sec according to speedtest and in actual downloads it seems to stay around 60k/s

 

[wesley]

Definitely 56k to 512k cable broadband.

yep! so you can w*** at porn straight away instead of wait....wait.....wait.....wait then it'd go soft

 

[Mark A]

I forgot about internet, moving from 128k to 2mb was pretty wowtastic.

 

[Angst]

i was seriously amazed when i upgraded from a 17" monitor to the 24"benq led thingy

 

[Cosimo]

yep! so you can w*** at porn straight away instead of wait....wait.....wait.....wait then it'd go soft

You could go and make a cup of tea when it was 32k, come back and it was still downloading.

 

[SlugForAButt]

Cyrix 333 with onboard VGA to a Slot A Thunderbird 750 with a 64Mb Rage Fury Maxx was a truly jaw dropping experience for me.
Suddenly Tachyon: The Fringe made sense in a beautiful way.
Sigh... they were the days.

You could go and make a cup of tea when it was 32k, come back and it was still downloading.

32K?
Lol, I used to remote program systems at 1200Bps.

 

[BrandyShot]

15" CRT to 22" LCD
PSTN to ISDN - going from pings of 200ms down to 50
Also going from floppy to CDROM was pretty awesome....

 

[_lecro_]

The speed of my new water cooled I7 .... WOW

 

[D D Danneh]

Damn, i'm only getting 500k/sec according to speedtest and in actual downloads it seems to stay around 60k/s

Speedtest reports the Kb/s, downloads will probably tell you the KB/s (Kb is kilobits, KB is kilobytes, there are 8 kilobits to a kilobyte). So 60 * 8 = 480 which is pretty close to your 500Kb/s. Like when you pay for "8Mb" broadband, you'd actually get a maximum of 1MB/s.

It's still a slow speed though, unless you're only paying for 500Kb (although you can't even get that now can you?).

 

[doggles]

A Bbc Micro & elite