How often do you upgrade your PC components/peripherals?

[The_Strict_Nein]

I'm currently upgrading parts piece by piece when I get the cash.

 

Got a job for the summer paying £7.50 an hour so I should be able to buy everything I need to upgrade to Z97 in a few weeks time

[Quilamento]

I don't really ever upgrade... my components are fine, and I don't think upgrading them wouldn't provide a much better experience 

[Brendson]

6 years really?

 

 Yup. Built a PC 6 years ago, built a new one 7 months ago.

[infamous_last]

Build my i7 920 rig 5 years ago.
Since then I have changed the case, upgrade the GPU once and put in an SSD.

Still runs great, either going Z97 or X99, depending on how long I can hold out for an upgrade

[SolarNova]

For me its basically down to if the performance increase is worth it.

 

I currently have a 780 classified which is OC'd & water cooled. If a GTX 880/ti ends up being 30-40% better then ill likely upgrade. If not then I wont.

 

My last card was a overclocked 560ti, before that it was 2x 8800 GTX's. So my current GPU was my most expensive, but the performance increase from each upgrade was always an additional 50% or more.

 

that said.

 

Im looking to grab a 4k screen at some point, so ill need to ether get an additional 780 classified, or upgrade to an 800 series ..or 2.

 

As for CPU, my last CPU was a QX6850 built into a premade computer that had a OEM motherboard that could not oc properly, now im on a 3930k, so that a big jump in performance there. Again ill only upgrade when the per core/thread performance is worth it. Currently none of the newer generation CPU's (3770k,4770k,4930k) have had any performance increase once u take Overclocking into account. The Broadwell CPU's also look like they wont have any performance increase when they arrive so I wont be upgrading then ether

[DLM_012]

I don't upgrade components until they no longer meet my performance needs in games which isn't very often. I'm not very picky about graphics settings as long as the game runs smoothly at 1440p and 40+ FPS. 

 

Peripherals aren't upgraded till they're dead or completely worn out.