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| Thread ID: 27886 | 2002-12-05 06:59:00 | How often do you upgrade your hardware? | Danger (287) | Press F1 |
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| 103566 | 2002-12-05 06:59:00 | We know that there is always something new around the corner and what we have this year will be surpassed next year if not next month. What I would be interested to know is what makes you decide to upgrade hardware wise (not software or OS). How much would you spend a year or bi yearly on upgrading your processor or graphics card etc? Or do you just buy a complete new system every 2 or 3 years? Comments please. | Danger (287) | ||
| 103567 | 2002-12-05 07:44:00 | New software and games are needing more power more disk space memory the whole shooting box i reckon that drives people to get a new PC or upgrade. I just brought my new PC custom built to suit my needs and i reckon it will last me a few years and till then have room to put bigger HDD's and memory in. Speed and Performance will drive me to get an upgrade. In a few years i will get another upgrade i can see it. It all comes down to what do i want out of my PC...............and of course can i afford that upgrade???? Thats my thoughts |
Buster (2415) | ||
| 103568 | 2002-12-05 07:47:00 | Hi Mid I have a credit facility with AGC finance for $2,000 which I pay off at $130 per month. I upgrade my hardware as and when I have enough credit to do so. Last month I purchased an extra 250 meg of ram for $60 and purchased two 60 gb hard drives from Dick Smith for $198 each. I will upgrade my Athlon 600 (which I built myself several years ago) to an Athlon 2000 when my account allows me as i will need to replace my MOBO and change to DDR ram. I should be able to do this for under $1,000. cheers. |
waynecarp (883) | ||
| 103569 | 2002-12-05 09:10:00 | Hi.. I budget about $300 - 500 every 3 months, so as to gradually upgrade to a high end (hopefully) machine. Have gone from 64MB to 380 MB, added a CD writer, & 8 GB to 40GB... Then better speakers, TV card, Screen to come...Then then perhaps AMD 1800 CPU/MB mid next year. Generally take a slow coach approcah according to my requirements...I mean it took me 2.5 after buying pc to connect to the internet... Cheers.. |
Kahawai_Chaser (166) | ||
| 103570 | 2002-12-05 09:29:00 | I don't budget for upgrades. I upgrade friends PCs and the deal is I keep what I pull out in lieu of payment. These parts I either sell on or wait until I have enough to build a PC and sell that. I get various new parts throughout the year and I like to do a major upgrade (Motherboard, cpu etc) at least every 12 months. I find that if I sell my stuff on within a year of getting it, it still has good value. When I do sell on it's an upgrade for a friend and I keep the parts, it's not unusual to get parts back that I used to own :) Effectively this all means that I always have a very modern system which doesn't cost my family a bean - it's all funded by my homework. Also my friends all know I supply quality parts and queue up for upgrades etc. :) :) :) |
crozier (2004) | ||
| 103571 | 2002-12-05 09:57:00 | >Effectively this all means that I always have a very modern system >which doesn't cost my family a bean - it's all funded by my homework. >Also my friends all know I supply quality parts and queue up for >upgrades etc. Hey .. that's same as me :D I usually upgrade my machine between 6 months to a year ... as you said those parts are still in good value within this period. I managed to sell my P4 1.8 just before Intel announced the price drop and paid only $2 (after price drop) to upgrade to P4 2A :D |
SKT174 (1319) | ||
| 103572 | 2002-12-06 03:35:00 | Trying to justify your new upgrade, eh Danger? You won't want to hear what I do then.... :D First PC was bought in 1994 - it had a RAM and HDD upgrade before I bought a complete new system in 1998, four years later. That machine also had more RAM added plus a CD-RW writer. Another four and a half years on I now have this Beautiful Beast and since I went for the best I could afford on all the parts I'm expecting it to last a LONG time before anything needs upgrading, if they ever do. :pSits and watches everyone rolling on the floor laughingMind you, I haven't got all my new games installed yet so it's possible I could be eating my words in a year or two. :D |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 103573 | 2002-12-06 03:49:00 | I suppose the Z80 I built in 1981 could do with a few more k of RAM. Its got 13kB now (1 kB on the motherboard, and a 4kB and an 8k board). I can't add more memory to the PDP11-34 -- it's fully populated at 256k, and the Microvax II has 13 MB. I'd quite like to upgrade the microvax to an Alpha ... How often do I upgrade my hardware? Not very often :D. It works. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 103574 | 2002-12-06 04:47:00 | >Trying to justify your new upgrade, eh Danger? Heh heh, you got it Susan.:) But you might not want to hear that the next OS from Microsoft requires new hardware! And I just got talked out of my new upgrade only two hours ago. Read about it in the other post by me about upgrading CPU and Graphics card. |
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