How often do you upgrade? Created 19 years ago2005-09-03 06:38:41 UTC by Stupid Troll Stupid Troll

Created 19 years ago2005-09-03 06:38:41 UTC by Stupid Troll Stupid Troll

Posted 19 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 :roll: PC stuff is expensive here
Posted 19 years ago2005-09-03 06:52:26 UTC Post #132002
Never.
Man, I'm getting tired of these "Say something useless about yourself" threads.
Posted 19 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.
m0p m0pIllogical.
Posted 19 years ago2005-09-03 07:22:36 UTC Post #132013
twice this year.

9800Pro (from Geforce4 Mx440 :biggrin: )
512 MB RAM (now 1 gig total)
Posted 19 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 19 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.
Seventh-Monkey Seventh-MonkeyPretty nifty
Posted 19 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 :cry:
Posted 19 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
38_98 38_98Lord
Posted 19 years ago2005-09-03 12:02:08 UTC Post #132086
You upgrade at boot sales? You can run HL?
Seventh-Monkey Seventh-MonkeyPretty nifty
Posted 19 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 sale
Right!
Posted 19 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.
38_98 38_98Lord
Posted 19 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 19 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 19 years ago2005-09-03 14:35:32 UTC Post #132169
You can upgrade lappy's. Lappy's are nice for lanning too
Posted 19 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.
m0p m0pIllogical.
Posted 19 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 19 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
Posted 19 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.
Posted 19 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.
Posted 19 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 19 years ago2005-09-03 23:44:51 UTC Post #132253
Once in three years or more! :roll:
Posted 19 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 19 years ago2005-09-04 00:20:18 UTC Post #132255
I might be getting a new mobo soon and a nicer case.
Posted 19 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 :lol:
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