What's the longest gap.....

Admiral Huddy

Admiral Huddy

Admiral Huddy

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.. without buying a thing for your main PC?

I've just realised that it's been a year to the week since I last bought anything so it's no wonder I have an itch.. and that was just a set of speakers :o. I've sadly kept a record of my Ins and OUTs since 2000 and I notice a definite slow down in the turnover of components over last 3-4 years.


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I have been on Haswell since launch so the only upgrade were from a AMD 6950 to GTX780 a couple of months after they launched and then my current GTX1070 a month or so after that launched. Everything else has remained unchanged. There are no big worthwhile performance increases anymore to justify upgrading.
 
Can't remember the last time I actually paid money to buy something for my own PC. Other peoples', yes, but not mine.
I tend to inherit components, or earn them through favours and assistance. Quite a decent way to live, I thought.
 
Been around 18 months since any significant purchase for my gaming PC, which was buying a 1080 and a Dell S2716DG. Since then I have bought some server/networking upgrades. I am ready to upgrade my PC now though.
 
Years ago I'd be constantly upgrading but not so much nowadays. My disposable income has increased to a point where I tend to buy what I want rather than what I can afford meaning there's less of a need to upgrade. That and the cost of stuff has gone bananas lately.
 
It's gotta be over a year now and I can't see any upgrades for a very long time atm as really there isn't anything that I can buy that is better suited to what I do or significantly faster. Looks like ill be on 1950x, 64gb 3466, vega for the foreseeable future.
 
Since updating platform to Haswell platform in spring 2013 only new PC parts bought with more actual deliberation have been 80+ Titanium PSU in July of last year and Vega 64 ~10 months ago just before prices went nuts.
(to replace 2012 bought GTX680)
But in summer 2016 had to buy two "unplanned" 5GB WD Reds to replace 3TB Seagates in RAID1, when one of those failed.

Average age of components is likely pretty near 5 years.
With 30" 2560x1600 monitor reaching five years in couple months and case being over 10 years old.
 
Some peripherals break really often, mice, printers, headsets. Most years there's something that needs to be replaced.

I tend to get a whole new PC roughly every 4 years. I'm trying to make this longer.

I did a bunch of upgrades to SSDs at one point, but it's unusual for me to do an upgrade like that.
 
about 5 years for me still on pc in my sig just bought a rx 580 this morning to tide me over for a while

until I build another
 
Still rocking a 3930k here, it's still beast enough for me tbh, though am getting that itch again for once I've got the cash again.
 
I think my core2 system lasted me about 3 or 4 years without needing an upgrade mainly because of me playing games like wow and diablo 3, other than that i rarely make it a full year without changing something.
 
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This is harder than it looks as there is often some little peripheral or whatever cropping up. I was pretty sure it would be nearly 3 years between November 2012 (Radeon 7950) and September 2015 (ROG Gladius mouse) but just checked and I got a printer in August 2014.
So I can't actually think of a time I've gone two years and bought nothing, there's usually been something like adding a HD or whatever and historically I used to do a build roughly every 2 years perhaps with a RAM/HD/GFX upgrade inbetween.

If you ignore peripherals then it's definitely between November 2012 (7950) and January 2017 (RX480). I was really surprised to learn I hadn't added any storage during that time!
 
5-6 years when I gave up gaming on PC around 2008.
I'd become disillusioned with PC gaming so moved to an xbox 360

Got back into it in 2014 & my current machine hasn't had any money spent on it in about a year. Although between 2014-2017 it had more than I care to admit!
 
Three years for me. I bought a 390x on black Friday 2015. It recently broke and I replaced it yesterday with a 1070ti. I didn't have any plans to upgrade, if it hadn't broke.
 
I set my PC up 2.5 years ago, but recently the PSU broke and I had to buy a new one. Aside from that I dont see the point in upgrading nowdays, my CPU is fine and the new GPUs are ridiculous prices, so I'll just stick to what I have :)
 
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