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How often do you upgrade your PC components (in general)?

How often do you upgrade your PC components (in general)?  

105 members have voted

  1. 1. How often?

    • Every 6 months
      14
    • Every year
      19
    • Every 2 years
      24
    • Every 3 years
      14
    • Every 4 years
      12
    • Every 5 years
      11
    • Every 6 years or more
      2
    • I just build or buy a new system from scratch everytime
      7
  2. 2. ...and do you think upgrading individual components is more cost effective than just buying a whole new system everytime?

    • Yes
      85
    • No
      20


I use old systems daily (Core 2 Duos mostly) and I just upgrade whenever I get new parts. If I get a new HDD, I just throw it in there. New GPU, just throw it in. I don't really go on "upgrade sprees" that much. 

Main System: Phobos

AMD Ryzen 7 2700 (8C/16T), ASRock B450 Steel Legend, 16GB G.SKILL Aegis DDR4 3000MHz, AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB (XFX), 960GB Crucial M500, 2TB Seagate BarraCuda, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations/macOS Catalina

 

Secondary System: York

Intel Core i7-2600 (4C/8T), ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3, 16GB GEIL Enhance Corsa DDR3 1600MHz, Zotac GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB, 240GB ADATA Ultimate SU650, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

 

Older File Server: Yet to be named

Intel Pentium 4 HT (1C/2T), Intel D865GBF, 3GB DDR 400MHz, ATI Radeon HD 4650 1GB (HIS), 80GB WD Caviar, 320GB Hitachi Deskstar, Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows Server 2003 R2

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It depends, usually on my birthday, at Christmas, or summer because I can earn money then.

 

 

✨PC Specs✨

AMD Ryzen 7 3800X | MSI MPG B550 Gaming Plus | 16GB Team T-Force 3400MHz | Zotac GTX 1080 AMP EXTREME

BeQuiet Dark Rock Pro 4 Samsung 850 EVO 250GB | NZXT 750W | Phanteks Eclipse P400A

Extras: ASUS Zephyrus G14 (2021) | OnePlus 7 Pro | Fully restored Robosapien V2, Omnibot 2000, Omnibot 5402

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I just can never justify doing upgrades across 1 generation or even 2 Gens if you buy near the top. With the GPu it does get a bit long in the tooth but I don't need to run everything ultra when High most of the time looks just as good.

 

ie Intel 3/4 gen no reason to go to 7th gen.

GPU 770/780 no reason to go to 1070/1080

 

My builds below at the most is sell Lapis and buy AM4+ when it launches and got no interest in going from 980 to 1080 as 980 still crunches everything. maybe 1180 i'll look at but doubt it. 

 

In todays world the gains are so tiny, its only now with Ryzen we can consider going and thats not a generation, thats Cores/$ value on upgrade. 

Redstone:
i7-4770 / Z97 / GTX 980 / Corsair 16GB  / H90 / 400C / Antec EDGE / Neutron GTX240 / Intel 240Gb / WD 2TB / BenQ XL24

Obsidian:

MSI GE60 2PE i7-4700HQ / 860M / 12GB / WE 1TB / m.Sata 256gb/Elagto USB HD Capture Card

Razer Deathadder Chroma / Razer Blackwidow TE Chroma / Kingston Cloud2's / Sennheiser 429 / Logitech Z333

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