Anyone feel that they DONT need to upgrade?

[IndyColtsFan]

OTOH, it does feel good supporting AMD, just to spite Nvidia who's been feeding their customers rebadged, old tech overpriced garbage and lying to consumers.

This Athlon II x4 630 is the first AMD purchase I've made since I bought an Athlon64 x2 4600+ for my brother in 2005 or 2006. Since that purchase, it has been nothing but C2Ds and a C2Q thrown in for good measure.

It does feel good supporting AMD, but what is really good is that at the price points I was looking at, they are extremely competitive and AFAIK, I don't see a good Intel alternative. A $100 quad core CPU is an amazing deal, no matter how you slice it.

 

[AndroidVageta]

I think upgrading to the latest and greatest is over rated.

My rig (see sig) is HELLA fast when running anything I can throw at it. Granted with the video cards that are faster than mine and newer, I still to this day have not played a single new game that I automatically could not shoot all the graphical options to the max and get completely playable frame rates (by playable I mean 60+fps).

Granted going to a i7 920 overclocked with Crossfired 5870's would blow my rig away, but it is completely not needed...like I said, ANY game Ive played (and always get the newest ones) has had no problem with Crossfire or with me maxing out the settings..and this is on a 1800x1440 resolution (no AA...not really needed at my resolution and always improves performance).

Before my X3350 I was running a E5200...that I needed to upgrade because it was holding my 4890's back big time.

My HTPC (see sig) could not any more powerful either...my girlfriend plays all her games (The Saboteur most recently) at 1080p (max resolution of my DLP) with all settings maxed in that game and its been completely smooth.

Thing we have to remember is that most PC games now a days are just console ports with maybe higher resolution textures and shadows...maybe...so as long as you have a PC thats stronger than a console (in the case of my HTPC, about 2.5x faster than a Xbox 360, at least in the GPU department...CPU = as fast if not a tad faser/slower) all games should be more than playable!

I see no need to upgrade my main rig ANY time soon, unless of course DX11 simply becomes standard and DX9/DX10 are no longer supported...which I think when this happens Ill already have upgraded to a faster system.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

This Athlon II x4 630 is the first AMD purchase I've made since I bought an Athlon64 x2 4600+ for my brother in 2005 or 2006. Since that purchase, it has been nothing but C2Ds and a C2Q thrown in for good measure.

It does feel good supporting AMD, but what is really good is that at the price points I was looking at, they are extremely competitive and AFAIK, I don't see a good Intel alternative. A $100 quad core CPU is an amazing deal, no matter how you slice it.

Well I went from AMD S939 4800+ X2 Toledo Core 2.4ghz -> Intel Q6600. I'm glad i didn't give anymore money to Intel.

Yea, the complete specs of this latest build is:

LLV1000 case + GB 785GM-US2H + 2x2gb G.Skill DDR2 800 + 150gb Raptor + 320gb 7200.10 + FSP FX 600GLN

pretty simple build

 

[nyker96]

This Athlon II x4 630 is the first AMD purchase I've made since I bought an Athlon64 x2 4600+ for my brother in 2005 or 2006. Since that purchase, it has been nothing but C2Ds and a C2Q thrown in for good measure.

It does feel good supporting AMD, but what is really good is that at the price points I was looking at, they are extremely competitive and AFAIK, I don't see a good Intel alternative. A $100 quad core CPU is an amazing deal, no matter how you slice it.

Amen, I was pretty exclusive Intel for a while but couldn't pass the $75 x4 620 OEM I picked up from ebay, after selling off E7200@3,5+IP35E. I got myself a x4 620@3,25 with a 785G board couldn't be happier. the board is loaded with goodies, eSATA, firewire, more USBs, smaller footprint. So after selling off everything, the total upgrade was just under $35. going quad with a more modern board, just a bargain.

I do mostly multitasking and virtual machines plus x264 encoding occasionally, the new x4 is a prefect fit for my workload, full hardware support makes VM run much smoother than my old e7200. and the encoding time is pretty much cut in 1/2. from the benchmarks the x4s are very close to Q6600 but uses less power. and for $35 going to quad I cannot stress more the value of AMD low end offerings.

 

[richierich1212]

Nope don't feel the need to upgrade for awhile. I don't play games anymore and I don't really use any demanding programs besides CS4. SSD Upgrade > CPU upgrade anyday.

 

[SpeedEng66]

im not in a rush to upgrade to the newest/latest.. if nuttins broke dont fix it..

no upgrade enough for my wifes work/game (oc later if needed)
q9400 @ stock
8800 gt
8gb
win7 pro

no upgrade htpc plays every video I throw at (if anything I will oc it later when needed)
e4300 @ stock
4350
2gb
win 7 hp (x86)

plays all my mame games (plus too much a pita to setup again)
e3200 @ 4.1
3450
2gb
xp pro

 

[cmdrdredd]

I've realized that my system is fast enough for anything I care to do. 3fps more in Crysis which I will never play again? Save 2seconds on zipping a file? Save 20sec encoding MP3s?

I don't do video and even if I did, I have multiple PCs so I could simply have one start encoding and do something else while it runs.


I have thought about going i7, I've wanted to. I can. However, the more I think about it the more I realize it will be doing the same things I do now except only a few seconds faster here and there. Nothing spectacular for me. I don't go crazy for benchmarks either.

 

[Cerb]

C2D E6750 2.4-3.2GHz. With +.1Vram and moving to CAS 6, it will happily make it to 3.6GHz, but only with power saving features reduced (I haven't bothered to see how far it can really go). It's rarely been a bottleneck, and with 8GB RAM, I just don't worry about it. New CPUs are faster...but mostly at doing things that I'm not waiting on. Things I wait on still tend to be slow on the latest and greatest.

The exception would be my 7300GT, as I'd like to mess around with OpenCL and DirectCompute with GPUs. It is fast enough for the capabilities it has, though, so I'm going to at least wait for post-Fermi price changes, and SC2.

 

[WicKeD]

I am not feeling the need to upgrade. While I just added a eVGA 285 GTX to my system I have not touched anything in 2 years. The system is fast enough for anything I throw at it. If anything an SSD is the move to make.

I do play games, but nothing that I am currently playing is requiring me to upgrade. When I do upgrade it is going to be to Intel's 6 core - whenever they show. And once I build that, it will be another few years before I upgrade.

 

[CraigRT]

I didn't feel the need to upgrade my Opteron 170 until I tried to play modern games. If I hadn't tried to play some modern games on it, I'd still be running it right now. At least I did my new build on a pretty good budget

 

[Xg32]

currently using a e8400 @ 4.0 with a regular seagate 1tb harddrive, 1gb hd4870 with 8gb ddr2 1066 ram on vista 64/xp 32.
my next rig will be completely built from scratch, no old parts used with win7 and xp32

few things im considering before the upgrade:

the difference between the e8400 and the i5s are really not that great from what i've read
4870 1gb video card is still giving me 40-60fps on most games on medium shadows, looks like i can wait until next year.
ssd prices will drop significantly a year from now , although i have to convince myself to not buy one right now, i will be able to buy 2 for a raid0 a year from now

hopefully if i wait 18months from now, the gen after the 32nms would be out.

 

[Frank Broughton]

Yes, I am upgrading and it is about time.

Current:
3 - p4 whatevers...
2 - AMD 64 Socket 939 4000+
2 - dell 2400 P4's Freenas boxes.

Upgrades so far:
2 - ASUS Essentio CM5570-AP002 Pentium E5300(2.60GHz) 6GB DDR2 640GB
1 - AMD X4 630 - ASUS MA765TD-V - ATI 4850

Looking at i7-920 for the last replacement. The NAS units are still working fine!

 

[SinxarKnights]

Wow you people are talking about upgrading some 'highend' stuff compared to what i got.

I still have my X2 5600+, 8800GT 512, and 4 GIG RAM. i recently got a new monitor, 2048x1152. and it still runs everything I got but Crysis maxed out smoothly. Including DA:O. I was a little bit worried that Neverwinter Nights 2 would struggle but nope, works flawlessly (god i love that game).

Ugrade yet? i dont think so!

Maybe in another year maybe or until something comes out that my 8800GT cant run, then i'll build a new system. until then im still VERY happy with my $300 rig.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

not upgrading, adding computers. just picked up an AMD quad & 785g for my living room.

 

[anand_user]

not upgrading

 

[HannibalX]

Posted this a few months ago in another thread... I have zero plans to upgrade any time soon.

I still have and use on a daily basis (for work) my Opteron based S939 workstation I built in January of 2007 (with minor upgrades in the video department). Outside of a very, very few tasks (which are IT related) I can accomplish everything I need to work wise and entertainment wise with this machine. For my use there is absolutely no benefit to building a new machine or even upgrading this one.

Specs:
AMD Opteron 185 2.6 GHz @ 3.0 GHz.
Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard (nForce 4)
2 x nVidia 9800 GTX+ 1GB
4 x Patriot DDR400 1GB Cas 2
2 x WD Raptor 10k 74GB
2 x Sony DVD Burner (forget model, from 2007).

My only gripe is that I'm limited (by the motherboard) to 4GB of memory and this will ultimately make me upgrade as I would love to have 8GB. I use this machine for everything from gaming (BF2, CoD4 & 5, CSS, L4D 1 & 2, Company of Heroes, and many others) to watching HD video, lots and lots of IT testing with multiple VMs, lots and lots of IT management stuff, video encoding, etc, etc.

Right now I'm running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit and this machine is fast, and for desktop related tasks it's just as fast as newer quad-core machines I've used. Do I care that a new i7 machine will burn a DVD in 4 minutes and my machine will do it in 8 minutes? No.

 

[jonsu]

I had a 3.2 ghz E2140, and thought I didn't need an upgrade.

Wife was in microcenter neighborhood, called me with a "Do we need anything?" So I did an accidental upgrade.

You know what? The i7 with 6 gigs of ram is nicer. At 3.6 ghz it's much nicer. My subjective feel is that everything is smoother and faster. I'm now completely limited by my dinosaur of a G92 video card and I don't worry about leaving apps and/or virus checkers running when I fire up a game.

Would I have done that if I was short on cash? Probably not. Am I happy I did it? You bet!

LOL, contrary to mine always says "Do we really need that thing ?"
I do upgrade when I can't run new game. That usually interval for every 3-4 years maybe more. I play CIV typed game so very low hardware requirement.

 

[Zim]

Can't find a reason to upgrade.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Wow you people are talking about upgrading some 'highend' stuff compared to what i got.

I still have my X2 5600+, 8800GT 512, and 4 GIG RAM. i recently got a new monitor, 2048x1152. and it still runs everything I got but Crysis maxed out smoothly. Including DA:O. I was a little bit worried that Neverwinter Nights 2 would struggle but nope, works flawlessly (god i love that game).

My parents still use my old Athlon64 3200+, with 1GB RAM and a 9600 Pro. And if it weren't for the fact that I got into med, I'd still be using that too.

 

[Xg32]

Wow you people are talking about upgrading some 'highend' stuff compared to what i got.

I still have my X2 5600+, 8800GT 512, and 4 GIG RAM. i recently got a new monitor, 2048x1152. and it still runs everything I got but Crysis maxed out smoothly. Including DA:O. I was a little bit worried that Neverwinter Nights 2 would struggle but nope, works flawlessly (god i love that game).

Ugrade yet? i dont think so!

Maybe in another year maybe or until something comes out that my 8800GT cant run, then i'll build a new system. until then im still VERY happy with my $300 rig.

I work a job with my comp, there's really no excuse for why it doesn't already have 2 SSDs in there other than being cheap lol, the 5600 isn't bad i think the 8800gt will still run everything for awhile if you turn shadows off, depends on what you use the comp for i guess.

i just went to newegg and looked at my receipt and it was from 16months ago, i think the cpu clock bottleneck is contributing to this weird feeling of "it's time to upgrade, but there's nothing much faster to upgrade to"

 

[Xg32]

LOL, contrary to mine always says "Do we really need that thing ?"
I do upgrade when I can't run new game. That usually interval for every 3-4 years maybe more. I play CIV typed game so very low hardware requirement.

lol it's funny cause i work full time on my comp and it becomes an efficiency issue to upgrade, exact opposite here, went from a 3700+ and immediately had to upgrade when i saw a opty 165.these two were hella fun to oc anyway.

then when the c2d conroes came out i had no choice either, went from a e6600 (?) to q6600 and realized i messed up, went back to the dual core and upgraded to a e8400. everytime i see the bill from the parts i bleed hard-earned cash, but if it makes my work 15minutes faster a day, then it's worth it and i do NEED that.

 

[Vampirrella]

I still play many games and they all still perform pretty well on my current gaming rig (see sig). ATM, no reason to upgrade. I am hoping to make this current build last another year or so.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

everyone should be taking this time to improve the economy and purchase a HTPC if they have a HDTV at home. I just build one with AMD's 785 chipset and a quad core CPU and its blazingly fast, quiet, useful for living room uses. Perfect for watching Hulu and movies that you downloaded =]

 

[InfoTiger]

No need to upgrade.
But could not resist the gamble on x2 555 -> x4 BE55.
I'm happy, but I'm still hold on my 939 x2 3800+.

 

[HannibalX]

In a funny twist if fate I was offered $250 for my Opteron 185 today. It looks like I'll be building a new machine after all.