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| Thread ID: 30644 | 2003-02-26 09:13:00 | what drives your hardware upgrade ?? | tweak'e (174) | Press F1 |
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| 124162 | 2003-02-26 09:13:00 | have a look at this (www.sudhian.com) article. For me it was games. the next one may be just for vid editing and something a bit cooler running ;-) what about you ? |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 124163 | 2003-02-26 09:32:00 | I am not upgrading just yet. Waiting for that ever delayed Hammer - Ahtlon64 from AMD. Will throw out my old tired Celeron 333 then! :D No real reason i guess apart from wanting to see DVD's run smoother without any stuttering. Cheers |
Ritzz (731) | ||
| 124164 | 2003-02-26 09:35:00 | Well usually it's because I can ;) I might upgrade something because it'll run the latest games better.... chances are I don't play them all that often because I'm too busy at some forum somewhere. Also because it crunches faster (http://www.distributed.net) :D. When it comes down to it though the main reason for a lot of peoples up grades a story of the old My ePenis is Bigger Than Your ePenis (www.somethingawful.com) scenario. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 124165 | 2003-02-26 10:24:00 | Well the first upgrade was from an XT to a 386SX. The XTs 10Mb hard drive was full and we wanted to try this new Windows thing. Software reason. The 386 gave way to a 486DX cause we started to print graphics. The dot matrix was bad for graphics so we upgraded to the printer and the whole thing slowed down to pre-slug level. Hardware reason. The 486 gave way to a pentium because of software. Some program needed Win95 to run. The pentium gave way to a celeron for some really good reason (which I've now forgotten). Currently things work so it will remain the same for a while. Mind you, we do have a later pentium which the family use for games but the reason for that one was arguments over who gets to use the computer and a shortage of resources like disk space. |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 124166 | 2003-02-26 10:39:00 | Games for me, and an outdated motherboard which required a bunch of new stuff to improve things. Kept my old pc for networking and backups. The old pc is good enough for anything I use it for, other than slow frame rates in Flight Simulator. | Danger (287) | ||
| 124167 | 2003-02-26 11:39:00 | I've only ever done one upgrade(performance wise, excludes HD CDRW..) more ram in my 233 i figure do the whole lot (buy a new one) i'm looking @ the hammer for my games but it may need a 64bit OS and that may take some time to get correct (and hyper threading is quite ingenious) i'm looking at GForce FX and currently Radion is just as fast so i'm w8ing about 4 months and i buy NEW looking at 4Ghz hammer or p4(5) 300GbHD Raidon or FX |
sc0ut (2899) | ||
| 124168 | 2003-02-26 12:33:00 | My first upgrade was from a P1/166 to a 300 Celeron after I finally got tired of waiting for graphics images to be manipulated. The final straw was after a mammoth 26 hours to rotate a 33Mb image through 90 degrees! There was an addition to the family shortly after this with a P2/400 when the Celeron packed a sad. Then came the Athlon 1100, which was purely a game driven purchase. And like yourself Tweakie, the next upgrade will most likely be a better graphics card with video imaging in mind. Still tossing up whether I should go for a specific video editing card or buy a MyViVo AGP card. |
Gorela (901) | ||
| 124169 | 2003-02-26 20:05:00 | Well i've just upgraded within the last couple of weeks. previous P2 400mhz present 1800+ Mine was driven by the need for another hard disk and i thought while i'm at it i'll upgrade everything else, that will allow me to play more games, and also on my P2 400 it was taking about 2 minutes to turn an MP3 into an ATRAC (for my minidisc) and when you have about 30 songs you can sit on a disk, you can see that almost becomes an hour!. Not good when you want to whip up a disk before you goto work in the morning. Now the 1800+ will decode and encode in the matter of 16 seconds! each song I bought a motherboard with a KT400 chipset, which has the possibility to have a 333 mhz bus, and with a quick bios flash, will be able to take the barton when it comes down in price. |
roofus (483) | ||
| 124170 | 2003-02-26 20:49:00 | Well, its always been no HDD room, and a processortoo slow for current req. Gamin' was also a part, seeing as onboard VGA sucks! So I wanted an AGP card :-) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 124171 | 2003-02-26 21:00:00 | It was games for me, but I never use it. Have an AMD 1700+ or something that just sits there and I keep using my PIII. Maybe because the games were pretty disappointing and I can't face transferring everything across - even though my PIII is at death's door and needs to be reinstalled. robo. |
robo (205) | ||
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