Originally posted by: VulnoX
I used to upgrade my computer all the time, but then I got into college and dont have quite as much money as I used to. I won a motherboard and proc combo from a LAN party I went to. The motherboard is some no-name board and the proc is an 1800+ XP. I still use those to this day, and its been over a year. I can play any game you throw at me without so much as a framerate drop. Max Payne 2, full settings at 1280x1024. Same with SW Galaxies, Halo, Call of Duty, BF1942, basically any game I throw at it. My biggest upgrades within the past year have been moving up to about a gig of ram, and my G4 4200 128 DDR. Nothing special about my computer compared to today's standards, and yet I can do everything just as well as everyone else for what I use my computer for. So I just dont see a reason for upgrading.
But I am building a new computer for someone right now. It will have a P4 2.8GHz with HT, 512 megs of ram Dual Channel, 2 120 gig WD SP's in SATA Raid, and probably a 5900FX vid card. So I will be able to compare then.
As I said, right now I dont see the point, we are still pretty bottlenecked by our Hard Drives and until Raptor class drives become cheaper and larger in size, I wont be touching many more large upgrades.