New builds or Upgrading?

[fojacko]

When you want to upgrade, do you make a new build or upgrade your current rig?

 

Personally, I upgrade my rig, the only thing that is the same about my current PC is the ram. Everything else has been upgraded (including case and psu), essentially it is a new build but the components have been upgraded over time.

[Willson94]

I consider upgrading everything but the ram a new build

and your saying if you had bought a new ram kit it would have been a new build and not an upgrade?

 

I expect I will replace the cpu mobo and gpu at the same time

take the old parts out and put them into a smaller enclosure and try out steamOS

[howaaronic]

It's going to get a lot harder, considering everything's being released faster and faster. I try to upgrade, however, it's probably more efficient to wait until your computer can't handle the programs/rendering/games at the time, and just rebuild from scratch. This is especially true as sockets are constantly changing and as well as new protocols. Such as 2014 seeing DDR4 RAM, mSATA storage and maybe USB 3.1. Just my two cents.

[Scia]

Was recently going to build a new rig.

Then I realised I love my Elysium, my AX850 is perfectly fine [2yrs old], 2500k to 4670k is too minor to spend 5$ on it, and same for my z77 ST board.

So I basically got a new GPU [680 SLI to 290x] new RAM [Vengeance 1600 8gb to HyperX Beast 2133 16GB], a sound card  [Essence STX].

 

And I think once the kraken G10 is available here, ima use the 680s  [got EK blocks on them ATM] in my Linux rig with steam OS ^^.

[SirReallySam]

I've been upgrading so far (two years) so far all I've bought as an upgrade to the machine itself adding an SSD But I will hopefully changing the case to this:

An M-ATX case (probably the Fractal Design Arc Mini R2)

 

But I dunno eventually I will probably just do the whole thing

[howaaronic]

And I think once the kraken G10 is available here, ima use the 680s  [got EK blocks on them ATM] in my Linux rig with steam OS ^^.

How adventurous

[Cryptonite]

It's going to get a lot harder, considering everything's being released faster and faster. I try to upgrade, however, it's probably more efficient to wait until your computer can't handle the programs/rendering/games at the time, and just rebuild from scratch. This is especially true as sockets are constantly changing and as well as new protocols. Such as 2014 seeing DDR4 RAM, mSATA storage and maybe USB 3.1. Just my two cents.

This is why I've always said the best way to future proof is to buy mid range. Going all out just seems pointless to me.

[howaaronic]

This is why I've always said the best way to future proof is to buy mid range. Going all out just seems pointless to me.

Indeed. Waiting for new technologies to drop in price in due time, for example 4K monitors, in time, it'll become mainstream. 

[Cryptonite]

Indeed. Waiting for new technologies to drop in price in due time, for example 4K monitors, in time, it'll become mainstream. 

exactly, I don't need the right to brag about wasting money on something that's still in a beta state.

my 660 Ti was a load cheaper than the 580 I was told to buy a few years back, I waited and got the 660 Ti when it was released, I've never been more glad I waited.

[wng_kingsley7]

You got a budget by any chance? Clearly stating you need a new build requires the DYI stuff and given specifications and requirements that you (our client) needs to operate around.

[howaaronic]

exactly, I don't need the right to brag about wasting money on something that's still in a beta state.

my 660 Ti was a load cheaper than the 580 I was told to buy a few years back, I waited and got the 660 Ti when it was released, I've never been more glad I waited.

Which is why manufacturers put so much effort into their mid-tier products like Intel i5, nVidia GeForce x60/x70, the list goes on.. My current build is basically everything that's mid-tier at the moment: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/183-show-off-your-setup/page-186#entry1410464

[Cryptonite]

Which is why manufacturers put so much effort into their mid-tier products like Intel i5, nVidia GeForce x60/x70, the list goes on.. My current build is basically everything that's mid-tier at the moment: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/183-show-off-your-setup/page-186#entry1410464

awesome rig. it's the newer version of mine basically aside from your hard drive being 1 tb (I need to get another 2 TB already since I got 20 gig free space)

 

Edit: and yeah, I know how you feel about the pricing, I live in South Africa where hardware pricing is insane.

[Cryptonite]

You got a budget by any chance? Clearly stating you need a new build requires the DYI stuff and given specifications and requirements that you (our client) needs to operate around.

he isn't buying anything.

[Scia]

How adventurous

 

Considering the quality of Nvidia drivers on Linux it may be ^^

[Antistatic12]

I find it easier to just to build a new rig each time. It means I dont have to rush and can get things right and exactly the way I want. So no down time if anything happens. But each to their own.

But i have upgraded certain things like headset/speakers/GPU/mouse/keyboard.

At the end of the day, do what you feel like.

[Latislapaloie]

Which is why manufacturers put so much effort into their mid-tier products like Intel i5, nVidia GeForce x60/x70, the list goes on.. My current build is basically everything that's mid-tier at the moment: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/183-show-off-your-setup/page-186#entry1410464

i love that case

[applebook]

Unless it's a GPU upgrade, I prefer a clean slate. Out with everything old.

[StormtrooperStu]

I built my pc a couple of years ago and will just upgrade forever.

 

So upgrades will be small, but there will come a time when it will almost be a newbuild but there will always be some part I recycle into it.

[The Law]

I think upgrading will soon go into new builds once the new tech is implemented and optimized/needed for new programs and/or games.

[IdeaStormer]

I always say I'm going to upgrade but once you start the plan there is no way the old case/mobo/cpu will do it justice, upgrade upgrades to new build.

[Almercenary]

don't really get why you would scrap the whole thing

[Charger]

well seeing as the time between my last build and my current build was 10 years so i built a new one. in fact i didn't even have the old one anymore i went to laptops for sometime. It would really depend on the specs of the build to decide if i would upgrade or make a new built.