How often do you upgrade your Video card(s)?

[lukart]

I've had a 470 Red Devil was serving me well.. but when I saw the new 580 Golden Sample hitting 1500Mhz oc, I had to get one

 

[Centauri]

Every year it seems. Mostly because I always buy when there are deals so I tend to not get hosed when I sell so the spread between old and new usually isn't very much.

 

[AdamK47]

Not often enough. These Titan Xp cards are getting old and slow.

 

[Guru]

I only buy at the most opportune moment, for example I hold out on buying for example a 280x or 380 as I knew I didn't want 28nm mild incremental improvements and 14/16nm was coming within a year, so essentially I wanted to get a GPU for like 2 years, but they were all crap, so waited until 14/16nm was released and then bought a GTX 1060 6GB.

I think I would have definitely regretted buying a 280x/380 as the 1060 6gb is way faster and literally no game released in the past 2 years runs 60fps with even a mix of high/mid settings.

So yeah, I'll wait as much as need to to buy at the most opportune moment, though yeah I wasn't able to play many games in the past 2 years, but I was kinda not into it that much, just the occasional dota 2 was more than enough.

But yeah, now I've played quite a few games, though by far the best game has been the Witcher 3. I could literally play that game for 1000 hours if it continued having content released. Played over 150 hours with the main game and two expansions.

 

[Jackie60]

I buy high end every generation, often two for SLI or xfire depending on how well favourite games scale.

 

[railven]

After realizing my then girlfriend didn't care about her computer's performance as much as I did, I swapped back to generational/refresh upgrades. She gets my old parts (which she doesn't seem to mind) and I sort of get to keep my PC a little "bleeding" edge. However, if the Volta generation is anything like the Maxwell/Pascal, I might just pay the extra tax for NV's Titan Volta (unless AMD release delivers, I haven't had a Radeon in my main rig in 3 years now ).

Got to enjoy life while you can

 

[ArizonaSteve]

I just put in a 1080ti - after running dual GTX 670s since early 2013. Lack of SLI support in recent games was beginning to take its toll.

 

[b-mac]

Normally every 2-3 years or when I can double my performance for a reasonable price. This upgrade was some unusual circumstances since I could sell my Nitro Fury for $75 more than I paid due to this mining craze. Used that money to buy a used EVGA 1080 SC. Pretty good upgrade for $70 or so.

 

[bbhaag]

Usually only once or twice over the life of my system. I just built a 6700k computer back in October and Jet had a really good deal on a MSI RX480 for $155 shipped so I snagged it and will probably use this card for 3-4 years then upgrade and ride that card out for another 3 or so years. After that 6-7 year time frame is up I will most likely start over with a new build.

 

[alcoholbob]

Since I'm cursed with a 4K monitor I pretty much upgrade every time a new x80 or x80ti comes out.

 

[Smoblikat]

I'm playing older games from my backlog on my 7970 which has been in service since January 2013.

I will upgrade to play GTA 5 at some point.

I used to play GTAV on an HD7970 with a 3770K, it ran fine on 1080P. Fallout 4 is a different story.....

 

[Dulanic]

Not very often. I hadn't upgraded from my gtx 560ti that I bought 6+ years ago. Doesn't quite beat my i7 920 I didn't upgrade for 7 years. I used to upgrade all the time but then I got old lol.

This year was my exception because I bought 4 for mining and that paid for itself already. So tl:dr was I didn't pay for my upgrade otherwise I doubt I would have.

 

[nismotigerwvu]

Honestly, I'd say "as needed" but I try jump in when the timing is best in terms of bang per buck. In the 3D era I've owned (in order): ATI Xpert@Play, Voodoo II, Radeon 8500, Radeon 9800 Pro, Radeon X850XT, Radeon HD4850 and I've currently got a Radeon HD 7950. I'm waiting to see what Vega does to pricing and whatnot but I'll likely upgrade this year. So that means a new (or in the case of the Voodoo additional) card in 1997, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2012 and likely 2017. So like what, every 3 years or so with a recent outlier caused by the loss of the 20 nm generation parts?

 

[Stuka87]

I got my RX480 just after launch last year. Previous to that used my HD7950 since its lunch. And that really really still played most games fine. I am looking forward to getting a Vega, assuming miners don't ruin it for us all.