How often do you upgrade your PC?

[Arika]

Rarely.  and there's always a reason for it, I don't upgrade dor the aake of upgrading

[SansVarnic]

I typically upgrade every 8-10 years. Really depends on my needs and or my hardware shows any depreciable degradation.

[IkeaGnome]

18 hours ago, 8tg said:

Two of my favorite designs, an MSI Twin Frozr GTX 970 Golden Edition and a Sapphire Toxic R9 280x

The one in the middle is a pixelview PDFII nvidia FX 5900 XT

I got into computers too late for a lot of the old artwork coolers and boxes. I got really into them around Pascal, but had always sort of been around them. Usually just a Dell or HP prebuilt for home use. I did find one that has box art that almost matches your PFP.

[darkknight302]

1 to 5 years.

[Shzzit]

I do about 5 years, and at the time buy the fastest there is.

 

Went from 8700k 5.3ghz, gtx 1080 ftw hybrid, 3200 ddr4, 1440p ultra wide

 

TO

 
13900ks 

4090 tuf

7800 ddr5

4k oled 138hz

 

 

Hoping it lasts another 5 years 

[thrasher_565]

On 2/11/2023 at 3:30 AM, 12345678 said:

each time that I get sucked in comunity bs

 

exiting from smartphone "entusiast", getting in pc exiting from pc, getting into cars, exiting from cars getting, in some other random shit with shillers being gurus of sorts

 

idk if a lack of affections or trust causes me to get in such bs, I end up wasting money and time

hmm kinda like me i got out of pc and started with paintball stuff then went back to pc stuff... i mean one click you own it...

[diegoaccord]

Every gen since 2019. Even intergeneration. 

2070 Super >

3080 > 3080 Ti also 6900 XT

Just bought a white Strix 4090 to replace a black Strix 4090

Probably going to get a Titan if its not like 6 months away from 5000 series. 

 

3700X > 5800X > 7700X. Hopefully X3D depending on benches. 

[cmdrhomer]

Well I tend to upgrade GPU every 2nd gen, so currently Im using a 3080, I'll be waiting for the 5080 then if the price isnt stupidly high that is, else I'll just go full AMD setup. Although rest of the stuff I tend to upgrade like every 2 years, stuff like storage.

 

Still using an X99 system for quite sometime now, Im looking into getting a 7950X3D soon

[Aisha -]

Every now and then but never to the latest and the greatest because of bugs and things being unstable

[g100ftw]

the only upgrade i made.... it was adding another 8 gb ram stick, im still using my 2018 pc with its 2016 hardware, im not sure if i want to upgrade or noth, i just play some light games and cs go,  that's all

[Godlygamer23]

1 hour ago, sebavera said:

the only upgrade i made.... it was adding another 8 gb ram stick, im still using my 2018 pc with its 2016 hardware, im not sure if i want to upgrade or noth, i just play some light games and cs go,  that's all

If it meets your requirements, why bother?

[SwerveU]

Usually every couple years, but I purposely stay a few generations behind. Still get great performance but saved a few bucks or a thousand, give or take.

[Voytek85]

I remember back in 98-2006 I upgraded pretty much every 6 months. Not the complete system but a new GPU or a new CPU, extra RAM, ... 

 

I feel the need to upgrade these days is much less needed. Generational jumps are much smaller and as long as your system is still on par with current gen consoles, you will have no problem playing any triple A game in decent settings as all the games are multiplatform nowadays.  I upgraded my 1080ti to a 3090 by 'accident' but wasn't actually planning for it. I would still be fine using a 1080ti although recently I switched to a 34 wide QHD monitor so the extra pixels would set a lot of extra strain on the system  

 

I always advise people to get medium hardware. The extra price for higher tier products is not balanced with the extra money you have to put on the table. You're better of buying 2 mid tier GPUs over time than 1 high end GPU to have it last the same periode.

[ewitte]

On 2/11/2023 at 6:38 AM, Arika S said:

Rarely.  and there's always a reason for it, I don't upgrade dor the aake of upgrading

I'm speed addicted "faster" is usually considered a reason for me...

 

I feel satisfied longer with newer hardware there was a time when everything was slow, and HDD was annoying enough to shell out 300 for a 32GB SSD when it was new tech.

[Tristerin]

2-6 years depending on needs

[Antrikshy]

I built a PC in 2015. Added an SSD a few years later.

 

Then in 2018, I built a whole new PC and sold the old one for parts (carried over drives).

 

I hope to build a whole new PC again this year maybe. Well, the plan was every 3 years but the GPU shortage stopped me. And now I'm just waiting to see current gen midrange models come out because I'm not in a hurry. It's just fun to plan out the parts and aesthetic for a whole system in one go, so I avoid upgrading the same PC entirely.

[YellowJersey]

I try to get 1 year per $200 CAD spent. Got 10 years out of my last computer. I spent around $1100 on my current computer, so I'm aiming for at least 5-6 years with my current configuration.

[NekoBubbles]

I pretty much don't intend to upgrade again for AT least 10 years after getting a perfect 1440P build. 

[Real_PhillBert]

I'm currently in the process of updating from a 4790k to a 13900k, so ~8 years. I really only update when the PC is no longer doing what I need out of it.

 

The only changes I did from the initial build was storage upgrades. 

[atticusdsf]

Usually, I plan on 5 years for a CPU/MOBO, 2-3 years for a GPU.

 

 

I've had two primary builds since I got back into gaming PCs in 2016.

 

The first was a 6700k / GTX 1070 tower built in August 2016.

 

I upgraded the GPU to a 2070 Super in 2019 after I decided to go 1440p Ultrawide.

 

The second was a 5800x build from July 2021. I carried over the 2070S, but the case and other parts were fresh, so that I could use the old one as a backup / guest rig.

 

Last month, I replaced the 2070S with an RTX 3070 after finding a good deal.

[Totallycasual]

There was a time where i'd buy new CPU's and GPU's just because they hit the market and i could, these days though, i plan on riding out every bit of hardware i have until it dies or becomes obsolete.  My 7700 and GTX 1080 are still doing an ok~ish job with my old Asus 1920x1080 monitors, but when it can no longer handle new AAA games at reasonable settings, i'll take a massive leap up in horsepower and throw in some new monitors too, hopefully they'll last me a good 7+ years too

 

I do the same thing with phones, they need to completely die or get to the point where their batteries can't last a full day before i'll start looking for a replacement. 

[YellowJersey]

*sees all the 8-10 year upgrade cycles*

[CatHerder]

When i can't do something anymore i'd like to do with my current hardware.

 

Me being fine with 1080p 60fps medium settings, and not being particularly into the latest GPU smasher AAA titles, but more into strategy and isometric RPG games, i have a feeling my current build(Ryzen 3600 with 5700XT) will work out for me just fine for many more years to come.

Maybe i'll buy used 5800X3D and whatever used GPUs will be available in the future when my current setup isn't enough for my needs anymore.

[dcgreen2k]

I've only upgraded of my own accord twice, and both times were because my setup was too slow to do the things I wanted. The first time was about 7 years ago when I upgraded my old Core 2 Duo/Nvidia 7300LE desktop to use a Core 2 Quad and 750Ti since I wanted to play video games other than Minecraft. The second time was a year after the first upgrade when I built an entirely new desktop to stream and play newer video games.

 

The last time I got a new computer was when I started going to university for computer engineering, where a laptop is almost required, The one I got had a Ryzen 7 4800h and RTX 2060. I was wary of getting a laptop at first but it ended up being fine since I don't play video games nearly as often as I used to.

 

So, I don't upgrade my setup unless I really need it for the things I want to do. I've seen too many of my friends blow all their savings on brand new, top-end setups when their "old" setups are only a few years old.

[PROGamer_199]

Personally? As often as needed. If what I do doesn't work properly anymore, then an upgrade is needed. I upgraded from a Ryzen 5 2600 at launch to a Ryzen 9 5950x this Christmas. Etc.

 

My bar is just stuff working properly and in a timely manner.