how often do you upgrade computers?

When thinking of upgrading don't even for one second let time be the thing that convinces you to upgrade. 3 years, 6 years, 10 years it doesn't matter. The second you think to yourself "this computer can no longer do what i need/want it to do" is when you should think about upgrading. I hate seeing people overpay for a new PC because it's got all these bells and whistles on it.

I used to work at Circuit City(ya go figure) but a couple came in bought a brand new desktop, they were upgrading from an old pos. They ended up getting sold a QUADCORE, 1TB Hard Drive space, 8 gb's of ram and a beast video card. That's fine and all but the couple was 70+ years old maybe older. They won't be doing anything other than email. And someone convinced them they needed a quadcore cpu and all that other shit to do email.

So when your computer stops being able to keep up with your demands is when you should upgrade. Obviously not if you have alot of money. or when you have a new piece of hardware that you want to use and the old computer doesn't have a port/hookup that it has to have to work with the new hardware.

gl

 
I upgrade my comp after 6 months to a year. Depends on how far technology has come and if it's truely worth the upgrade. Currently I have a Q9400 @ 4.0ghz 4 gigs of ddr2 @ 1350 2 terabytes a GTX260 216 55nm auzuntech x-fi prelude and an old Abit IP-35Pro. Only reason I upgraded from my 9800GT was because my monitor does 1080p and it could keep up with the res. GTX260 rocks the shit though. Got the quad-core for photoshop and video editing and programming. The shitty part is I barely game on it at all anymore. The only thing I use it for is syncing my musacs to my phone and interwebz.

 
i just good diff pieces at different times.

most recently i got two ssd's and im gonna be getting a new mobo since my mobo doesnt support RAID even tho it says it on the website. and i wanan get a SLI board incase i wanna get a second gtx 260. and i also went from 2gb of 667mhz ram to 4gb of 1066mhz

 
I just bought anm hp laptop in august and I'm very unsatisfied with it. I'll definitely be doing a shit ton of research and buying another comp, soon...

 
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