PC stuff is expensive here
How often do you upgrade?
Created 18 years ago2005-09-03 06:38:41 UTC by
Stupid Troll
Created 18 years ago2005-09-03 06:38:41 UTC by
Stupid Troll
Posted 18 years ago2005-09-03 06:38:41 UTC
Post #132000
How often do you upgrade your PC? And how major are each upgrades? Mine are normaly very small, maybe a bit more ram etc. And I only upgrade very rarely PC stuff is expensive here
PC stuff is expensive here
Posted 18 years ago2005-09-03 06:52:26 UTC
Post #132002
Never.
Man, I'm getting tired of these "Say something useless about yourself" threads.
Man, I'm getting tired of these "Say something useless about yourself" threads.
Posted 18 years ago2005-09-03 07:20:11 UTC
Post #132010
I recently "downgraded" to 512MB of RAM for overclocking. No performance hit at all so far.
Posted 18 years ago2005-09-03 07:22:36 UTC
Post #132013
twice this year.
9800Pro (from Geforce4 Mx440
)
512 MB RAM (now 1 gig total)
9800Pro (from Geforce4 Mx440
)512 MB RAM (now 1 gig total)
Posted 18 years ago2005-09-03 07:26:10 UTC
Post #132015
Man, I'm getting tired of these "Say something useless about yourself" threads.Im just really bored, wont happen again
The last time I upgraded was about 4 months ago, with 256 extra megs of ram.
Posted 18 years ago2005-09-03 07:46:08 UTC
Post #132016
I'm replacing most of my PC soon-ish, probably early next year. Minor-ish upgrades from time to time, but I think I've pushed this lot enough now.
Posted 18 years ago2005-09-03 09:34:09 UTC
Post #132034
I upgrade my computer whenever my wife gets frustrated with hers. I give her mine and get a new one! 'Bout every year and a half, though speeds and capabilities are leveling off so it may be a bit longer now 
Posted 18 years ago2005-09-03 09:45:23 UTC
Post #132038
i never upgrade my computer, if i need a better one then i buy a new one from a car boot sale
Posted 18 years ago2005-09-03 12:02:08 UTC
Post #132086
You upgrade at boot sales? You can run HL?
Posted 18 years ago2005-09-03 12:04:24 UTC
Post #132091
i never upgrade my computer, if i need a better one then i buy a new one from a car boot saleRight!
Posted 18 years ago2005-09-03 13:14:15 UTC
Post #132110
oh i can, usually their stuff is more advance. And don't be too surprised. 4 years ago i found a small camera thingy (like an eyetoy) on sale for ?3. Not bad at all...
Don't be too surprised by what you can find there.
Don't be too surprised by what you can find there.
Posted 18 years ago2005-09-03 14:31:22 UTC
Post #132165
Hey, when I got hl, i was running it on a 233 mhz p1 with about 48mb of ram and a 2mb video card. (I still have that computer!) but I bought a laptop, so I don't have to upgrade for a very long time. (I can't afford to anyway.) 
Posted 18 years ago2005-09-03 14:31:43 UTC
Post #132166
Hey, when I got hl, i was running it on a 233 mhz p1 with about 48mb of ram and a 2mb video card. (I still have that computer!) but I bought a laptop, so I don't have to upgrade for a very long time. (I can't afford to anyway.)
Posted 18 years ago2005-09-03 14:35:32 UTC
Post #132169
You can upgrade lappy's. Lappy's are nice for lanning too
Posted 18 years ago2005-09-03 15:04:35 UTC
Post #132187
You can upgrade RAM, CPU, HDD, and recently GPU in a notebook. They are still very proprietry though. They need to standardize it somehow, I wouldn't mind building me own laptop if they standardized a motherboard form factor.
Posted 18 years ago2005-09-03 15:06:24 UTC
Post #132190
On my brothers lappy, when I lan against him, on heavy going games like BF Vietnam and things his often overheats and crashes. btw he upgraded his RAM a week ago
Posted 18 years ago2005-09-03 18:57:34 UTC
Post #132223
well i just upgraded from a Geforce FX5500 to a 6200OC, which with the nice double huge heatsink fanless VGA cooler(I bought a fan for it though) I overclocked a further 10%.
I also got a nice 500W X-connect, a uv lamp, and some noise dampeners
I also got a nice 500W X-connect, a uv lamp, and some noise dampeners
Posted 18 years ago2005-09-03 19:16:30 UTC
Post #132226
-Bought my computer in July 2002.
-Bought a CD-RW drive in September 2002
-Disconnected a very noisy fan and forgot about it.
-Bought a DVD-RW drive in December 2004
-Bought another HDD in January 2005
My next upgrade will probably be 512 more MB or ddr ram, maybe for Christmas. I think that's the only thing I could find useful. I wont have time for games, but autoCAD takes up too much memory.
-Bought a CD-RW drive in September 2002
-Disconnected a very noisy fan and forgot about it.
-Bought a DVD-RW drive in December 2004
-Bought another HDD in January 2005
My next upgrade will probably be 512 more MB or ddr ram, maybe for Christmas. I think that's the only thing I could find useful. I wont have time for games, but autoCAD takes up too much memory.
Posted 18 years ago2005-09-03 19:25:41 UTC
Post #132228
AutoCAD takes up to much memory?
another thing i noticed with the upgrade on my computer, is the instant difference it made. even without changeing any graphics settings, HL2 looked better, which I can fully attribute to the jump from directX 8 to DirectX 9 hardware. there were so many things that i never had before.
another thing i noticed with the upgrade on my computer, is the instant difference it made. even without changeing any graphics settings, HL2 looked better, which I can fully attribute to the jump from directX 8 to DirectX 9 hardware. there were so many things that i never had before.
Posted 18 years ago2005-09-03 19:31:34 UTC
Post #132229
Well, autoCAD itself might not use too much memory, but the files I work with are usually huge (Larkin Building, Roman Pantheon, etc)
Posted 18 years ago2005-09-03 23:44:51 UTC
Post #132253
Once in three years or more!
Posted 18 years ago2005-09-04 00:00:17 UTC
Post #132254
Got a new sound system, +256 Ram(4 months ago), 256 video card(7 months ago), 160 gig hard drive(2 months in the future)
Posted 18 years ago2005-09-04 00:20:18 UTC
Post #132255
I might be getting a new mobo soon and a nicer case.
Posted 18 years ago2005-09-04 04:04:22 UTC
Post #132259
THe last time I had a serius upgrade (New Hardrive, Case, Processor, RAM, GRaffix Card) was about 10 years ago 
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