What is the best upgrade you have done?

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Just wondering if any of you guys have been left gob-smacked?

I have recently installed a Crucial M4 64GB and it has blown me away with the speed.

I'm running it on Sata 2 at the moment and hope to upgrade to Sandy Bridge later in the year.

I also recently upgraded from an 8800GT to a Sapphire 5850 Extreme which was good.

The SSD is probably the best upgrade i have done up to now.

Thoughts and opinions guys?
 
Changing from my e8500@3900mhz to an i7 really surprised me on how much faster and smoother everything is....

I wasn't expecting to notice really any difference...
 
At the moment the SSD is probably the best upgrade the general user can make. Sure a new GPU can get you from 50FPS to 100FPS but you barely notice that where as an SSD drives speed is in your face.
 
my case. i didnt realise how much of a difference spending money on a decent case would make. its a lot easier for cable management aswell as airflow to keeps temps down.
the only part of my pc i wouldnt change without a very good reason.
 
The best upgrade i have done is spilling a pint of beer on my PC and buying this at the end of the month.

ATI HIS 6950
Intel i5 2500k 3.30GHZ
Thermalright Silver Arrow CPU Cooler
Asrock Z68 Extreme 4
Kingston Hyper X Genesis Grey 4GB Ram
Seagate Hybrid 500GB HDD
Windows 7 retail
OCUK DVD Drive
Cooler Master Silent Pro 850w Modular PSU
Silverstone RV02W-EW Raven 2 Evolution Windowed case
 
chaparral said:
Changing from my e8500@3900mhz to an i7 really surprised me on how much faster and smoother everything is....

I wasn't expecting to notice really any difference...
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I'm going to upgrade to Sandy Bridge later this year from a Q6600 @ 3.2Ghz

I'm hoping for a big performance boost like i saw with the SSD.

Hopefully an i5 2500k @ 4.6Ghz will do that. :)
 
Not really sure what the best upgrade I've went for in my life.
SSD in the last set-up did show a massive decrease in boot times and loading times for application on that drive, it's not as amazing as graphics/memory upgrades from the past though (IMO).
Going from 256mb memory to 1gb memory on my Barton 2500+ setup was impressive at the time, so was the shift from MX440 to FX5700...

I think I'm going to keep it simple and go with the upgrade from ball mouse to optical.

Trying not to think of just whole platform upgrades, just the little additions over time.
 
Upgrading from an Athlon 3800+ & 7800GS to my i5/M4/480GTX has been a great experience. I just wonder how I put up with the Athlon for long and kept my sanity.

I think it's the M4 SSD that's wow'd me the most though. To boot up so quickly and not have to wait for windows all the time makes one hell of a difference. In a work environment these things would pay for themselves times over. I won't put an OS on anything slower from now on.

...If only my work PC was this fast!
 
For me it's been my monitor upgrades that really make my think to myself "wow, that was a really worthwhile purchase".

The first monitor I bought myself was the Dell 2408WFP (coming from a 19in 5:4 TN panel BenQ) and a year or so later the Dell 2709W. I was really happy with the 2408 and now with the 2709W I am still a bit in awe of it.

The only problem is that I don't feel I can go for anything smaller, lower quality or lower resolution than the S-PVA panel 1920x1200 2709W now - so the next monitor I get (hopefully not needed for a few years) will most likely be a bit costly.

Also, my SSD upgrade is worth a mention- really nice to have the extra responsiveness it brings.
 
getting rid of my TX850 CORSAIR power supply (never buy corsair again) & buying a much better quality one.

also upgrading from Q6600 + ddr2 to i5 2500K + ddr3 & better equipped mobo.amazing performance increase in my games & everything else is just much faster. :)
 
Moving from a 74GB Raptor (i.e. one of the really old ones) to an 80GB X25-M was a really nice improvement, as was going from an Athlon 3500 to a Q6600. Also, upgrading a graphics card or going Crossfire is always nice.

But without a doubt, the best upgrade I've ever done though has to be setting up Eyefinity. I've gone through a few different screen arrangement changes over the last few years:

* 1 x Dell 2007FP (20" 1600x1200)
* 2 x 2007FP - loved dual monitoring, hated only being able to game on one
* 1 x DGM L-2647WDH (26" 1920x1200) - loved gaming on it
* 1 x DGM & 1 x Dell - ended up missing dual monitors!

but I finally sold the two Dell's and got two Iiyama E2409HDS and a 5870 last Christmas. The first time I fired up a game across all 3 screens (Burnout Paradise I believe), it blew the top of my head off and I couldn't stop grinning for a good couple of hours. Even now, six months later, I still find it an amazing experience and love playing on the three screens. Well worth the expense and time it took me to persuade the wife to let me do it! :)
 
Ocz vertex 2e bigfoot, cant beieve how quick it is. Download a program, hit install, few seconds later it's done. Boot time is amazingly fast, and the lack of noise is a blessing. After that, my benq fp241w 24" monitor, cost £430.00 4 years ago, most monitors of that size now are cheap tn panel garbage.
 
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