What was your most rewarding Gaming upgrade?

[PanteaDropper]

Whether it be a PC core component, a Peripheral or some type of random accessory,

What upgrade have you made recently or in the past that Truly made your gaming experience more enjoyable?

When Halo First came out, one of my buddies took the top off of his Xbox controller so he could get more control over his accuracy. He did the same for me and we played on those suspect controllers FOREVER it seemed.

Now that Control-Freeks and similar products are out, I CANNOT play without them. The thumb sticks feel completely unusable without them and ever since I switched, I feel like my aim has improved 40 fold.

Anyway, hope to hear someone else's experiences.

[Oshino Shinobu]

Getting rid of my Mad Catz transformer-type mouse certainly made getting used to using a mouse for shooters easier. Can't believe I spent close to £100 on one of those. 

[DocSwag]

Building a pc so I could play games on it instead of my 2012 MBP

[PlayStation 2]

A half-decent mouse.

[minibois]

Recently? 

Building my current PC and getting like.. 10 times the performance I had before.

 

In the past?

Installing a Quadro 410 videocard (GTX 650 graphics chip based 512MB Quadro) in my previous PC which a relative of mine gave to me for free that made my gaming experience from "unplayable" to "double digit fps, but that is about it".

 

Can't really say my peripherals changed my gaming experience much, since I mostly play singleplayer games.

[TheLaserCucumber]

Upgrading from a GTX 760 to GTX 1070

[shriane]

gtx750ti to gtx 1080

[Indus Monk]

I have 3 that are equally satisfying:

 

Going to a 1080p IPS display

Getting a mechanical keyboard

Getting a G402, (Best.Idea.Ever.)

[WereCatf]

My most-rewarding upgrade must have been going from some non-descript 8088 with a monochrome CGA-display to an IBM PS/2 80286 with a VGA-one. Whoo, boy, it was a whopping huge upgrade!

 

PS. Get off my damn lawn, kids. I can see the green behind yer ears!

[PanteaDropper]

40 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Getting rid of my Mad Catz transformer-type mouse certainly made getting used to using a mouse for shooters easier. Can't believe I spent close to £100 on one of those. 

Mad Cats went out of business recently, no?
was it something like this?

30 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

A half-decent mouse.

does they mean a brand name mouse like the ones "Razor" puts out or simply a non Track-ball mouse?

[Oshino Shinobu]

Just now, PanteaDropper said:

Mad Cats went out of business recently, no?
was it something like this?

I believe they did, yeah. 

 

It was an M.M.O 7. This thing:

 

[PlayStation 2]

3 hours ago, PanteaDropper said:

does they mean a brand name mouse like the ones "Razor" puts out or simply a non Track-ball mouse?

A non arse-tier wired mouse.

Corsair Sabre RGB; went from some shitty wireless Walmart mouse to that.

[TetraSky]

The most recent "rewarding" gaming upgrade for me, was going from a 5870 to a 7970Ghz.

It made all the difference in the world in gaming in the more "recent" games. (Mind you this was a couple years ago by now... still pretty good card IMO)

[ARikozuM]

Going from a wired Xbox controller to a wireless one for Windows. 

Going G502 after a few Logitech mice and a Corsair Scimitar. 

Used a Core 2 Duo for years until I bought my 4690K and Z97 upon hearing of their release. 

 

Most rewarding upgrade would be the Game Boy Advance SP. Played everything going back, had a backlight, and could be played literally anywhere. 

[ElZamo92]

When I got my second 1070 and started playing EVERY GAME (that supports SLI) in native 4k 60FPS with all the details turned up (except for anti aliasing).

[ramencupofjoy]

Going from a horrid MacBook Air that had to do an emergency shutdown every time I wanted to play Toribash to a somewhat decent computer build with a i3-6100 and GTX 960.

Haven't really done much to it since then, it does everything I want it to.

[geo3]

A high refresh rate monitor. By a very huge margin it made the most noticeable improvement to my setup.  I will now never ever buy any display that can't do at least 120Hz. It's impossible to go back. 

[Princess Luna]

Quit being cheap about mice and getting a Corsair M65 Pro

[Guest]

 

Despise the software, but this was the single greatest thing I ever did in terms of gaming and being lazy at the same time.

[dcgreen2k]

Nvidia 7300LE > EVGA 750Ti

Core 2 Quad q6600 > Ryzen 5 1600

[handymanshandle]

Well upgrading from a laptop to a desktop was worthwhile.

But a few of the upgrades I made along the way this year were probably some of the most "rewarding"

 

The SSD, RX 470 and upgrading from a fairly shitty $20 Logitech mouse to a Corsair m65 pro rgb were the best upgrades.

[shadowbyte]

definitely my old 21:9 60hz panel to a 27 inch 1440p 144hz panel with g-sync

it's sooooo smooth

[Arika]

Most definitely TrackIR w/ ProClip for when i play DCS world

[Uzume]

In the past: going from a C64 with datasette drive (think 40min load time and 50% failure) to an Amiga with a built in floppy drive. Going to a 286 which actually had a HDD was the next biggest leap.

 

Recently: stepping up from a quad core to a higher core count. No more Youtube stutter with Boinc running in the background.

[BingoFishy]

2 minutes ago, zzrhardy said:

higher core count

that's an understatement