Rig upgrading

[Paralectic]

Are there any negative aspects of upgrading your rig part by part instead of saving up for a whole new rig?

 

 

[JoshM]

Depends on if your current rig is worth upgrading or you can put up with it long enough to save for a new build. 

[AlwaysFSX]

If you take too long newer parts come out that may or may not have much better features and are faster.

[Leonius]

i did the same thing, because i didn't have enough money. I upgraded to a gtx 680 and afterwards from 1156 to 1150. I had to bare with a gpu bottleneck for a little wile, but if you want better performance now, but dont have the money for a totally new setup, sure part by part is just fine. Negative thing about part by part might be that you have to do a fresh install more often, because you change major components like motherboards or primary storage.

 

Edit: If you make a big generation jump i would suggest a complete upgrade 

[Phage]

shipping fees if you're ordering online?

new items coming out

imo i would save up and buy in bulk

[SomnolenceGames]

Depends when in the life of the rig you are upgrading.  At the start fine, but it its 5-6+ years old the platform is probably a little dated and it may just be better waiting till you can get a whole new setup together, because like cars no point sinking money into something that is just not going to really give you any new life/performance into it.

 

But comes down to what your doing I would say if you just want a bit more performance and don't have much money to spare then go for parts you can then reuse when you eventually switch your mobo and cpu to a new socket/chipset.