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Have you guys ever "downgraded" on a electronic device from a high end product?

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You all are going to love this. Its kinda the opposite. I had an HD7970 and sold it for more than the price of two 7950s. So I upgraded and made money.

I sold my 7950 in the prime of bit coin when AMD cards prices skyrockets. Made a healthy profit and bought a GTX 780. win.

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Downgrading in terms of product range isn't downgrading if something actually suits your requirements better.

Buying sensibly is the key thing in all situations

Hey, nobody asked for a sensible and rational outlook!

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Yes i remember back in days i went from IPHONE 4S ( Sold for $140) to Cheap $50 android phone so i can do my final year android project.

Yea because a $50 budget Android vs a multi hundred dollar iPhone is a totally fair comparison. Using iPhone 5s btw

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I dont know if machine death would count but I Went from 32GB RAM and a GTX 590 in my old rig to 16GB RAM and HD 7950 to my next one?.

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Yea because a $50 budget Android vs a multi hundred dollar iPhone is a totally fair comparison. Using iPhone 5s btw

apple sucks

i hate apples

it boils my blood

“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”


 


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Electronics wise - went from a $600 phone to a $200 phone.

 

Life wise - went from a 6 cyn vehicle to a 4 cyn.

lol I just work with what I have in life, and tech im always going up

 

4 cyn for life

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I've gone from a Centrino based HP 6730b to a HP Stream 11, twice, part because of weight and size, but later the battery in the 6730b completely died on me. Otherwise not really.

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No, I'd never even consider spending 600$ on a phone. I don't think it's worth it for ANY needs really, when there are far cheaper and perfectly capable alternatives that do pretty much everything just as well.

 

didn't happen with anything else really, but I suppose if someone gave me a mac pro for free I'd sell it and "downgrade" to a much faster and cheaper diy desktop.

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Have just done 2 downgrades:

 

-Went from GTX 590 to GTX 550Ti. 590 died, and had the previous GPU (550Ti) as spare... Still running the 550Ti btw.

 

-Gone from Sony Xperia Z1 to Sony Xperia M2 Aqua within 2 - 3 months of purchasing (1,5 year-old second-hand) Z1. The battery life on Z1 was awful, and it was necessary to use the crash-prone "smart connect" app in order to use headphones at all. Got a second-hand M2 Aqua that was barely used, battery life is amazing, and "smart connect" isn't required for using headphones anymore. Just one minor complain is the 480p display on M2 Aqua as opposed to Z1's 1080p display, but other than that, totally worth it.

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Went from my i5 2500k and CF'd 5850s to a Samsung A10 powered laptop. Died a little inside for a while.

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@Aniallation he had 970 then want to a 270x and now hes running a 6970 with a c2d

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Downgraded from my "gaming" desktop to a macbook air because I don't ever game and it suits my needs more (as an upcoming dev).

No regrats, not even a single letter

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Downgraded from my "gaming" desktop to a macbook air because I don't ever game and it suits my needs more (as an upcoming dev).

No regrats, not even a single letter

dont lemme see ur face ever.

“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”


 


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I have, and honestly it felt great. So I have two stories for this one.

 

From Nexus to Moto G: Back in 2013 I decided it was the year to try stock Android, so as a early Christmas present I bought a Nexus 5 in November. After about a week of using it, I could tell that something wasn't quite right with the battery, so I bought a 8GB Moto G as a temporary phone. The Moto G showed up, and by that time the Nexus was a great phone, minus the leaking battery, so I returned it. Ironically the Moto G also broke(screen flashed then went black), but after I returned the Moto G, I bought another, although with 16GB this time since I knew it was more than a “temp phone”. After using the G I was fine with what it was, even though it was a downgrade to the Nexus, but even today I still use it.

 

Beast to budget PC: I used to be really into high-end hardware once I got into PC gaming, with most of my rigs costing $1000ish. I decided one day that my Q9550 + GTX 280 setup was just a little bit dated, so I basically sold it(kept the CPU and MB). I didn't have much money at the time, so I threw together a Athlon II X4 + Radeon HD 5770 rig, so that I could save up for my “dream machine”. One summer full of working in retail later and I had saved up for my dream rig, which was a Core i7 920(binned even), 12GB of RAM, 3x Radeon HD 5850 MW2 Editions, Corsair 800D, and a way overkill custom water cooling system. I used it for two weeks and I asked myself: “was it worth it?” and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't say yes. I looked at my budget PC and just thought of how it was much more fun to build, more fun to OC, and really just surprised with how good budget hardware is. So I sold my beast PC, only keeping the GPU's, and started getting more budget hardware just to tinker with(which this started me branching out from “just gaming”, and messing with things that most people dont do). Even now I would rather play on my sleeper PC which has a quad core FX 6100 and 750 ti, than my Facebook machine which has a 3770K and GTX 980.

 


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Even now I would rather play on my sleeper PC which has a quad core FX 6100 and 750 ti, than my Facebook machine which has a 3770K and GTX 980.

Gaming with a 6100 and 750 Ti and using Facebook with a 3770K and a 980. Makes sense.

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dont lemme see ur face ever.

Dude. Get a life.

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I have downgraded from a MSI notebook to a mac.

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I had a 970 in a system and it took a dump and I grabbed a card I hand on hand to replace it and it was an ATI 3850 Pro HD and I never replaced the 970.

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Nexus 6 to Moto X play but the battery man, so good.

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dont lemme see ur face ever.

H8er

 

Macbook finishes > plastic Dell > cheap aluminium HP > every other "Thin and light"

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