When do you upgrade

[Smackaroy]

I want to know when people upgrade so if it's no problem I would like you guys to say when you upgrade you setup is it every 6 months every year etc 

[Draconid]

Whenever I'm unhappy with the performance of my computer 

[WereCatf]

1 minute ago, Smackaroy said:

when you upgrade

Which part? I don't upgrade the whole PC in one piece, I upgrade a part here and a part there. The GPU I tend to upgrade every 2-3 years, the CPU and mobo closer to every 5 years. Storage-devices, ie. SSD and HDD, I upgrade whenever I feel like I'm running out of space.

[Smackaroy]

1 minute ago, Draconid said:

Whenever I'm unhappy with the performance of my computer 

Ok thank you

[Smackaroy]

Just now, WereCatf said:

Which part? I don't upgrade the whole PC in one piece, I upgrade a part here and a part there. The GPU I tend to upgrade every 2-3 years, the CPU and mobo closer to every 5 years. Storage-devices, ie. SSD and HDD, I upgrade whenever I feel like I'm running out of space.

Like any part to a setup 

[Pi31415]

I upgrade the weakest point of my system ever paycheck

[Sychic]

I want to upgrade my cpu and mobo to the Ryzen 3000 but gotta wait for performance reviews and figure out how to pay for it

[WereCatf]

Oh, forgot to mention that I am still using an el cheapo display I bought over 10 years ago, and I use mice and keyboards as well as long as they work -- I don't see the point in upgrading mice or keyboards all the time, like some people seemingly do.

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, Smackaroy said:

Like any part to a setup 

Doesn't really seem your school project is any consistent if you allow me to say...

[Blze001]

It's kind of random for me. I upgraded to my 8700k when my old 4670k board died (user error, I accidentally scratched a lead with a screwdriver, I'm a moron). I upgraded to my 1080ti from a 1070 purely because I found it on eBay for $450 in the post RTX announcement hype.

 

Now I'm probably gonna be on the sidelines for another 3/4 years.

[Smackaroy]

4 minutes ago, Princess Luna said:

 

 

3 minutes ago, Blze001 said:

It's kind of random for me. I upgraded to my 8700k when my old 4670k board died (user error, I accidentally scratched a lead with a screwdriver, I'm a moron). I upgraded to my 1080ti from a 1070 purely because I found it on eBay for $450 in the post RTX announcement hype.

 

Now I'm probably gonna be on the sidelines for another 3/4 years.

Oof that sucks that you killed your mobo like that

[SupaKomputa]

For a complete setup, i rarely touch it for at least 1-2 years.

The thing that i might upgrade is the HDD, if it's full.

People will upgrade their GPU in 1 or 2 years.

As for CPU, i think 3 years is still OK.

[Smackaroy]

5 minutes ago, Princess Luna said:

Doesn't really seem your school project is any consistent if you allow me to say...

I was going to put the info I get and find the average but yeah kinda stupid idea 

[SupaKomputa]

5 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

Oh, forgot to mention that I am still using an el cheapo display I bought over 10 years ago, and I use mice and keyboards as well as long as they work -- I don't see the point in upgrading mice or keyboards all the time, like some people seemingly do.

Yeah my el cheapo 1080p HP monitor (use to be expensive) still using it after 10 years.

If not having a new mech keyboards, i may still using my old compaq keyboard from the 90s.

[Smackaroy]

3 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

For a complete setup, i rarely touch it for at least 1-2 years.

The thing that i might upgrade is the HDD, if it's full.

People will upgrade their GPU in 1 or 2 years.

As for CPU, i think 3 years is still OK.

Well for upgrading your cpu it depends on what your doing is single threaded stuff and  you have a quad core with a high clock speed you don't need to upgrade as much 

[Smackaroy]

1 minute ago, SupaKomputa said:

Yeah my el cheapo 1080p HP monitor (use to be expensive) still using it after 10 years.

If not having a new mech keyboards, i may still using my old compaq keyboard from the 90s.

Its 1080p and still works so nothing wrong with running it

[SupaKomputa]

2 minutes ago, Smackaroy said:

Well for upgrading your cpu it depends on what your doing is single threaded stuff and  you have a quad core with a high clock speed you don't need to upgrade as much 

Single threaded stuff? Games from 2010? Most of what i do is multithreaded thank goodness.

[Oalei]

Whenever I could so it's a thing about money if I have too many I could do anything I can. 

[Smackaroy]

Just now, SupaKomputa said:

Single threaded stuff? Games from 2010? Most of what i do is multithreaded thank goodness.

What I ment is that games prefer high clock count compared to high core count 

[ELSknutson]

I upgrade when things break or the parts are outdated and under preforming to the point they are no longer playable but usually by that time something has broken and I have already swapped the hardware out. 

 

When something breaks I usually look at what components are older and that could use a refresh. 

[slippers_]

3 hours ago, Smackaroy said:

I want to know when people upgrade so if it's no problem I would like you guys to say when you upgrade you setup is it every 6 months every year etc 

I'm running an i5 4690K and a GTX 750Ti since Sept 2015 still, I just don't need any more performance just yet!

 

So simple answer is, whenever I need more performance (and after I have explored every option to eek out more performance - see Overclocking). 

[steelo]

For myself, an upgrade is 'needed' whenever my PC struggles to run software that is 5+ years old...LOL. I dealt with a POS mac mini with a dual core i5 (4th gen, I think) and integrated graphics for 5 years before finally building a decent Ryzen 5 system with dedicated graphics.

[RoryRB]

Basicly when new platforms/standerds launch i like to keep up with the newest gen stuff i.e z390/ x570 soon

[Tristerin]

When it doesn't perform to my expectations.  Typically I eek out the performance of my PC by either upgrading the GPU later down the line or the CPU to "give it a breath of fresh air".

 

My last PC build before my second Ryzen PC for myself lasted from 2012 till 2019.  From the 2012 build the Case, PSU and GPU went to the new build (as I had upgraded the GPU a little bit ago already)

 

OR

 

Until I can no longer avoid noticing the itch I somehow/why/way need to scratch when it comes to building a PC.  Anymore I just tinker with old hardware to get away from that urge.

[dizmo]

I build a new system every 3ish years. I completely rebuild, as it generally has the best ROI for me.