What was your best hardware upgrade?

[Jbonn386]

Going from a i5 3210m with a 630m gpu laptop to a new I5 7600k and 1070 desktop

[Boss1295]

Going from an E8400 Wolfdale with an R9 380 to i7 7700k with a GTX 1080 Ti. Also, first SSD.

[IAcKI]

Hands down got to be HDD to SSD. I think now we take it for granted but the increase in speeds is just ridiculous. Best £100 I've ever spent. (for a 120gb mind).

Now thinking of jumping in to try an NVME but feel the difference won't be as noticeable as the initial HDD to SSD jump.

[Guest]

Getting a Samsung T1 for external storage.

 

Pretty much replaces all the USB drives i had in my lifetime and boosts the convenience and speed factor by 1000 times.

[GrayTech]

One of my biggest upgrades was probably my first SSD. I bought it because my HDD got really slow. And with really slow I don't mean "yeah, programms take some time to load". It looked like the HDD was about to die so I was actually suprised when something opened at all.  But I only had to "use" this HDD for some days until the SSD arrived. Now after I haven't used the HDD for month I actually put it in a laptop to do some testing (laptop had a broken HDD) and now it is just a regular slow 5400rpm HDD again. But during the time I had to wait for the SSD my PC wasn't useable.

[kelvinhall05]

7950 to an RX 470 or a Celeron 1007U to an i5-4200U.

[GerardoG]

Geforce 760 2GB to a Geforce 1080 Ti

[Butch Chastity]

FX 8320 to R7 1700X

[Brownie1gg]

From intel hd 4400 graphics to gtx 1060 and from my i3-4170 to my i7-4790

[PlayStation 2]

going from a shitty laptop that could barely run tf2 decently at 720p to something that maxes it out at 1080p

[Guest lilbman]

Went from a shitty, absolutely horrid HP Pavilion with an AMD APU (God, those are awful) to an Alienware 15R3.  

[stevencko]

Upgraded from Plextor PX-256M3 SSD SATA

to

Samsung 950 Pro M.2 NVME SSD

 

Just did it last night.  WOW!  Blows everything else I ever did away upgrade wise.  To quote something I heard somewhere  BANANAS! 

[flibberdipper]

Eventually it'll be upgrading my nearly dead 7950 to a 1060 6GB.

 

But I guess for now it'll be going from onboard Radeon X300 to HD 7570 graphics in my beater HP for older games and such.

[shadowbyte]

either 960 to 290x or 2560x1080 60hz ultrawide to 144hz 1440p g-sync dell s2716dg

[Drak3]

A10-6800K to i7-5930K and 7750 2GB Crossfire to RX470/GTX 1080 combo.

[TetraSky]

5870 to 7970Ghz I guess?

I mean, if we don't count buying an entirely new PC to replace an old one... Because I did go from an Athlon XP 2800+ to a Core i7 875k when I originally bought my PC 7 years ago. Single core to 4 core 8 thread was certainly a big upgrade.

[Spanish Avenger]

either going from 6570 to 7970 ghz

or 

going from i3 540 to i5 7600k

 

[Riddler356]

it is kind of a tie for me, when i went from an msi 660ti pe to a strix 970 i went from playing games ok, to maxing at 1080p (ans my 970 to 1070 went from maxing base 1080p to modded). my next was an upgrade from i5-3570k to an i7-7700k, it really helped as sometimes i am a tab hog (25-50+ tabs in firefox) according to task manager my ram was fine at 30%, but my cpu from some of the sites caused a 100% utilization (no extra processes like multiple processes or services for firefox) after the upgrade i can even handle 100 with no problem. (i didn't upgrade my entire system just for that, i did it because i wanted nvme, and m.2 support natively and on the board with no adapters, plus i wanted an i7, with all 3770k's being a similar price to a 7700k (from what i could find) i thought why not just upgrade the board and ram as well.).

[TacoSenpai]

23 hours ago, thegreengamers said:

I still haven't gotten a new monitor... It's a Dell 1280x1024 19 inch from 2006.

Yeah my old TV was a hand me down from my folks it was about 2007 IIRC.  First HD TV we had.  I actually kinda still wish I had my Daewoo CRT the amount of hours gaming on Super Smash Bros Melee on it was insane.

[minibois]

So upgrading an entire PC doesn't count?

 

If so, I guess it was on my previous PC when I got an Nvidia Quadro 410 512MB in there and went from not being able to play games to "kinda I guess you sorta can???"

[Unimportant]

Getting a soundcard, back in the day when a soundcard was a rare, high end luxury. One tends to take sound for granted in games these days, but it makes an amazing difference.

[wildgg]

back when i went from a i3 550 to a 4670k (turned out it was stable at 4.9ghz which i was really happy with at the time)

[Indus Monk]

22 hours ago, mrchow19910319 said:

Upgraded my old GPU (GT something something) to a GTX 660.

Coincidentally, i too, did the EXACT same thing.

 

I went from a GT 630 2GB to a GTX 660 2GB.

 

(along with a PSU upgrade. From a no name 280watt unit to a 600 watt CoolerMaster Thunder, which was technically speaking 460watt)

[mrchow19910319]

17 minutes ago, AmbarChakrabarti said:

Coincidentally, i too, did the EXACT same thing.

 

I went from a GT 630 2GB to a GTX 660 2GB.

 

(along with a PSU upgrade. From a no name 280watt unit to a 600 watt CoolerMaster Thunder, which was technically speaking 460watt)

I was playing battlefield 3 at that point of time and oh boy the difference was like night and day. 

[Indus Monk]

Just now, mrchow19910319 said:

I was playing battlefield 3 at that point of time and oh boy the difference was like night and day. 

I reinstalled bf 3 after i got my GTX 660, and yes, the difference is HUGE. Going from 45 FPS on low at 768p to 100 FPS on ultra at 768p.

 

NOTE: that 768p monitor was a TN panel...

and i moved to 1080p IPS panel about 20 months ago... (didn't bother with G-Sync since i had an R9 280x. and probably the cheapest 1080p IPS Freesync monitor was definetly more than $250)