When did you last upgrade your computer?

[the100thballoon]

Im just curious as to how often people upgrade their systems. Please answer the poll and, if you wish, post a comment about what you upgraded from/to.

 

[Knight-Dragon]

End of Oct 2005. Got a whole new system...

 

[dannyevilcat]

I just finished building a whole new system this October. I was looking to upgrade my graphics card but decided to change everything in order to accommodate the switch to PCI-express. In early November I replaced the 6600GT I'd only had for a couple of months with a 7800GT.

I'll be getting a new motherboard before christmas, and plan on sitting tight after that until the next generation video cards come out around the end of summer, although I might be tempted to squeak in a dual core Athlon in the meantime, depending on price cuts on socket 939 processors after the release of AM2.

The PC I had before this one stayed pretty much untouched for almost 2 years.

 

[Speedo]

1 month is the closest poll option, though it was in fact Sept of this year.

Athlon64x2 4400
Asus A8N-SLI Premium
2GB (2x 1GB) Corsair XMS Pro @ 3-3-3-8
eVGA GF7800GTX
Creative X-Fi
2x Samsung 80GB SATAII in a striped array (plus a single Maxtor 80GB SATA150 that I just added 2 weeks ago)
Song DRU-720A burner (plus a DVD-ROM and CD-ROM)
Seasonic S12-600W PSU

All slapped in the Thermaltake XaserIII case that I've had forever.

 

[Cedric Greene]

Well I voted 1 year ago but that is about when I started putting her together, she was upgraded last month from AMD 64 3000+ to the AMD 64 3700+ and there have been other adds throughout the year.

 

[Padma]

Last *major* upgrade was a little over a year-and-a-half ago. Since then I think I've only swapped the power supply. I will probably upgrade the mobo/CPU, harddrive, and graphics card sometime during the next year or so.

 

[Turner]

I don't remember. But it was at my old house, so at least two years ago.
Just got a new work 'puter tho. Too bad I can't load Civ on it.

 

[MarineCorps]

The last upgrade I made to my system was installing another case fan on it about 5 months ago. Getting a whole new system sometime in march

 

[Lahdoz]

I upgraded my processer and sound card about a week ago. About a month ago I upgraded my MB, about 2 weeks before that I upgraded a video card in a secondary computer, about a month before that...

I upgrade regularly in order to stay up to date. The various parts are cycled through the various computers around the house. Higher speed RAM will be my next purchase early in 06'

 

[Ginger_Ale]

Last upgrade (well, it wasn't really an upgrade, it's my first PC) in 2001. Pretty outdated by now, (1.8 GHz RAM, 256 MB RAM, 64 MB video card), so I'm hoping to spend some money I've accumulated on at least upgrading the video card and RAM. Wishing to get a whole new system though...

 

[Godwynn]

I don't upgrade. My dad is a moron and won't let me. So I got a completely new computer, after the other one died and went to meet its parents 486 and 386.

 

[CivFan91]

Having been fed up with my dying eMachine, I put together what I call the zMachine because of the Z on the box, and the fact that my keyboard is a zBoard.

Specs:

MY OLD COMPUTER, THE eMACHINE:

Windows XP SP2
Hard Drive: 80 GB
2.6 gHz intel CPU
Vid Card: 256 MB nVidia (GeForce 5500, I think)
RAM: 512 MB DDR

But I had a series of problems. In order of chronology:

1. Monitor power button broke
2. Keyboard got busted
3. Silver mouse turned green
4. Speaker sound faded to static
5. DVD-ROM broke
6. Computer power button broke
7. Diskette drive button busted

So, I just now got a nice system:

Windows XP SP2
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 which goes as fast as a 3 GHz processor (Intel and AMD are too different to have the same speeds)
Hard drive: 200 GB
Memory: 1024 MB DDR
DVD-RW/CD-RW (same drive)
nVidia GeForce 6600 with 256 MB
17" LCD Norcent monitor
$50 zBoard gaming keyboard, which is really cool. I don't even have to leave the game to remove the keyset, and put in a standard one, type on CFC, and go back to the game without missing a beat.

The whole thing is an upgrade, actually, because I put it together. I learned the hard way that you can't trust pre-built systems for hard gaming.

 

[Zelig]

My computer is in a constate state of flux. Last thing I did was a revamp of the fans/cooling solution and wired up all my fans to a fan controller.
Will probably replace some hard drive soon.

 

[marioh]

I upgraded back in January of this year, primarily to play RCT3. My prior PC lasted me 3 years with no performance issues.

Abit IS7-E2
1GB RAM
6800GT
60GB SATA HD
Pentium 4 3.0Ghz
New case
PCI fan card
17" flat screen monitor
DVD burner
WinXP Home

I initially bought a 9800Pro video card for the system, but sold it about a week later due to my disappointment with the card's performance in benchmark testing.