I am not upgrading for the next 2 years!

[AGodspeed]

I am not upgrading for the next 2 years!

Well that sucks, you're gonna be missing out on those lovely ClawHammer's at the end of the year.

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

I've done little upgraded on my machine since I got it 2 years ago. It's a

P3 450
originally 128 mb, now 384. I bought a 256 when it was dirt cheap.
Voodoo 3 3000 AGP

orig 13 gb ata 66 drive added an ATA 100 (runs at 66 ) 60 gb drive
bought a burner 8x4x32 works just fine for me
came with a DVD drive

I am currently in need of a major upgrade:

I think my hpt66 driver is bad, I keep getting hardware errors (same addresses) whenever I try very large data transfers on my hard disk. I've tried various drivers, and reinstalling. Might try the cable, it's the only thing I haven't checked, otherwise, I'd guess it's the mobo.

I don't game much, but when I do, I would like it to work well. I'm getting sick of the Voodoo 3 and the non-existant drivers (poor 3dfx)

I want to get a TV capture card, and I don't know if my CPU can handle realtime mpeg encoding.

I want a new case. my current case is ugly and I hate working it in. This one is the most frivolous, I guess


So my planned upgrade is:

AMD 1900+ or better
ECS K7S5a ( I know my RAM might hamstring my CPU, but DDR is so darn expensive right now, it's not worth it. RAM prices are so cylical, I might just wait it out, get a new board in a few months that will have DDR and the higher rated DDR 333?) Or I could be devious and swap the 256 DDr I have in my sister's 1600+XP machine and put my 256 stick of SDRam in there...She would never know. I did build the machine...and it would only be till RAM prices fell again. Kind of mean..

Radeon 7500, or AIW 7500 I've read some on this card and it looks good. I want the capture ability, and I hope I can get it to work in XP. The 8500DV is too much for me

new case, probably the antec 1040b or the chieftec true black version, or a different case all together...still not 100%

I hope to do it in the next few weeks. I have my credit card debt down to $1000 (from $4000+ no job for a six months makes the interest pile up)

The new one that I'm going to get, I plan on having that one for a while, and maybe doing some intermediate upgrades ( new mobo, or RAM upgrade) instead of an all at once like I'm doing now, which makes things a bit more expensive.

You're right though, the computers that are out now, and that people have put together in the last few months, unless you "need" 80 fps in every new game that comes out, are more than adequate for the applications we want to run.

 

[Speedyturtle]

I upgrade every six months. Before I buy my upgrade parts I sell my old stuff first so the new stuff isn't as expensive. This way my costs are cut down while I still get the top of the line technology. Selling on Ebay and Sale/Trade forums is great.

 

[doog519]

I am still Tbird Giger.
My cable ISP is my bottle neck so what's the use.I mostly surf and play games on the net.(RTCW Tribes)

 

[Bovinicus]

A friend of mine recently upgraded from a Voodoo Banshee to a GeForce256 SDR I sold to him. He is very impressed with his newly achieved performance.

 

[Nefrodite]

A friend of mine recently upgraded from a Voodoo Banshee to a GeForce256 SDR I sold to him. He is very impressed with his newly achieved performance.

oh my, i hope you didn't charge more then 10 dollars, or your no friend

 

[Gomce]

vash, I won't even bother to comment your post, I hope you're not over 18 with that way of thinking, so childish man.
What about people who do reasonable upgrades? Like the ones who will purchase the GF3 Ti200 when GF4 comes out?
Or people who pay 100$ for 1.4 ghz processor and dont waste 250$ for the 1.6 ghz ? Come on, get a grip and think about it,
I am happy you know that people like you exist, it makes the companies like NVidia take out on the market new products and their older products get cheaper so people like me can buy them . You can always brag but that's the only thing you end up with, and a the frase "get a life"

 

[vash]

<< vash, I won't even bother to comment your post, I hope you're not over 18 with that way of thinking, so childish man.
What about people who do reasonable upgrades? Like the ones who will purchase the GF3 Ti200 when GF4 comes out?
Or people who pay 100$ for 1.4 ghz processor and dont waste 250$ for the 1.6 ghz ? Come on, get a grip and think about it, I am happy you know that people like you exist, it makes the companies like NVidia take out on the market new products and their older products get cheaper so people like me can buy them . You can always brag but that's the only thing you end up with, and a the frase "get a life" >>

Well, here's the thing I consider when I buy stuff: how long will I use it and who will I give my old stuff to. I tend to give a lot of my hardware to my relatives, so they don't buy anything. What I get back from them is enough for donations to the Salvation Army so my taxes get lowered (I pay plenty as-is).

Sure, the people like me buy hardware and help line the pockets of people that make the cards, no big deal here. I need the fastest framerates in the game I play because I play competitively. If you didn't play competitively, you don't even need to upgrade a single component in your system. Your ti200 upgrade when the Geforce4 upgrades are a cost effective upgrade at the time they happen, but if I am playing a game where having a faster framerate means my shot registers before the other guy, I can't take the chance of being behind.

Its also the economics of things. I can afford to buy new parts for my machine on a yearly basis. Buy a $300 video card every nine months is no problem. Buying a $300 processor, mobo and new ram every nine months is not a problem as well. I can understand if money is an issue to hold back purchases, but at this point in time, I have no qualms about buying a top of the line video card because I know it'll have 3 years of life in my systems, or someone's I know. Sure, the value goes down, but it never goes down in the eyes of the taxman.

To sum up what I said: upgrading is worth it for those who need it (i.e. play competitively, as in competitions). For those who don't need to play competitively, economic upgrades will do just fine.

vash

 

[thorin]

Good for you. Glad to see you stand up for something you believe in. I'm not sure why you expect us to care, but it's still good for you.

Thorin

 

[Bovinicus]

<< A friend of mine recently upgraded from a Voodoo Banshee to a GeForce256 SDR I sold to him. He is very impressed with his newly achieved performance.

oh my, i hope you didn't charge more then 10 dollars, or your no friend >>

$20. He offered it to me. =)


<< vash, I won't even bother to comment your post, I hope you're not over 18 with that way of thinking, so childish man. >>

Then you go on to comment about his post. Heh.

 

[Rob9874]

I'm happy with my P4 2.0GHz for a while. I'd like a Northwood, but I'll wait for 3.0GHz or higher. Hopefully, I can just plug it into my Dell mobo and make some slight voltage changes. Hopefully.

 

[apoppin]

<< Why upgrade unless you receive some benefit? >>


"For all your computer upgrade needs, there's BlasterCard . . .

bragging rights, PRICELESS . . .

Well, I skipped a few cycles . . . my (formerly oft reviled) Abit BX-6 (R.2) which started out with a Celeron 333 - 500Mhz then 800 and finally 1.24Ghz . . . still running a Radeon 64 which is almost a full year old . . . and yet I can run ALL the current games satisfactorily.

However, NOW is the time for my upgrade as I play the "guess which components will serve the longest and be the easiest to upgrade" game. Probably a Northwood and G4 . . . THEN I will (probably) not make any (major) upgrades for (another) two years.

 

[Sniper82]

My video card is my most upgraded hardware. When I buy one I re-sell in about 7 months and get something newer. Like say I buy a Geforce SDR/DDR in 7 months I will sell it and buy a Geforce 2 GTS. After having that around 7 months I will sell it and get a Geforce3. I never buy the latest a greatest thing I am always a step away and always have been. My mobo and CPU get upgraded about once a year or just when I get in the mood. Right now I have a A7V133 with a 1gig@1.2(can do 1.4). So when I get a wild hair in my A$$ I will overclock it to 1.4gig. But when I do upgrade it will be at least 1900+XP.

But don't see that happening for at least another 6-7 months.

 

[FlippyBoy]

i upgrade when i can afford it, and by afford it, i mean have extra money after savings and bills. other than that, im happy with what i got (duron 750@935 w/ 150mhz fsb).

 

[t4t3r]

well, my new machine was completed on tuesday when i received my monitor. after my girlfriend leaves to go to college (about the beginning of summer), i will begin saving up to build another machine. depending on how work goes, i will try to start earlier. my machine now rocks ass, but i think i have the "disease" that most of you all have. i can't stop messing with the one i have now and i always want to get something new for it. i really want to build another one even though i am perfectly satisfied with the one i just built. ahh, thats the price of being a computer geek...




t4t3r

 

[Biggs]

I'll upgrade if and only if I'll get at least 2x the performance from my current rig.

 

[rockhard]

<< "For all your computer upgrade needs, there's BlasterCard . . .

bragging rights, PRICELESS . . .
>>


LOL Nice to see someone not taking all this too seriously.

Keep up the upgrading guys, be nice to see the ti500/8500 come down in price for me to peruse

 

[steelthorn]

This not upgrading attitude is the thing that is holding us all back. You have to upgrade so the
wheel is put in motion man. I upgrade every 6 months at least.

 

[MoFunk]

Man if I had a dollar for everytime I said to myself that I am finally happy with my machine and dont need to upgrade! Then Boom, upgrade city! Luckily I do enough during each year that I have a full machine to donate to a local elementary school. They get a computer and I get a nice fat write off!

 

[cuteybunny]

sound just like me, that's what I been doing for years.