Upgrade My PC Please! Episode 3: Core Hi Five!

[8ballchrono]

Good luck man! I look forward to voting for your system

Sorry bro, but these people suffering with their unlocked Haswell i5's from 2013 need it much more than your C2Q from 2006. They're truly SUFFERING
*obvious sarcasm*

Well, I finished up the entry form and uploaded a bunch of pictures. Wish me luck!

 

[Voivid]

Wow Akki has an older graphics card than I. You deserve the upgrade.

 

[Nugster]

I was going to say if Akki doesn't win it will be a travesty, but the way the vote is going I don't need to worry! Feel sorry for all the guys that entered that don't win, you all could use some help as well.

 

[PanMan]

Akki with the mods!

 

[Haris Abdullah]

Awesome job Steve. I have to say im impressed with Akki, so he gets my vote. Cool name "Akatsuki".

 

[OzanTuran]

Good luck Akki!!

 

[Genosyde]

GTX 480? "Pimp his Rig"

 

[Shade0117]

Love this series! I love seeing some of the stuff other people are making due with! I feel bad for Akki, but it looks like everyone is voting that way, so Rob gets my vote!

 

[Dreamcat4]

I also feel bad for Akki and would have voted for the Akki. However being pragmatic and realistic here, his PC is simply so old and behind now that $500 isn't going to be enough to fix it properly.

 

[NickFuryus]

I have a core i5 3570k myself and I feel like an upgrade would be nice!! I can't enter the main series because I live in india but I can help someone else get a nice upgrade!!

 

[Sumit Bainola]

Akki Really Need to Upgrade his PC. So mY Vote For Akki. Good Luck Akki..

 

[Sumit Bainola]

Akki FTW.

 

[Medlyn]

Good luck guys !

 

[Magikarp]

Akki all the way

 

[ErikNZ]

It's Akki for me as well. They all deserve an upgrade though but Akki seems to be struggling the most here.

 

[Ming CHOW]

Akki ‘Akatsuki’ Chop Shop PC from New Zealand needs a New System.

 

[Mercosity]

Well where do I start.

I'm a 63 year old Grandfather who has been a computer geek since stone tablets were replaced by the IBM PC way back in yonder times.

I'm an avid BOINCer (The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC, pronounced /bɔɪŋk/ – rhymes with "oink"[2]), an open-source middleware system, supports volunteer and grid computing.[3] Originally developed to support the SETI@home project, it became generalized as a platform for other distributed applications in areas as diverse as mathematics, linguistics, medicine, molecular biology, climatology, environmental science, and astrophysics, among others.[4] BOINC aims to enable researchers to tap into the enormous processing resources of multiple personal computers around the world.) and 'crunch' projects such as Skynet Pogs, Milkyway, Moo! Wrapper, Rosetta and SETI.
I use re-purposed 1 x HP ML 370 G3 and 1 x ML370 G5 severs for BOINC projects as a member of the Gridcoin Team. With these projects I donate my computations to the scientific community to help humanity.

I'm also an avid gamer and love my old games which I play on an old Compaq Deskpro running Windows 98 and of course DOS.

My all time favorite game is Star Elite and this is the reason for replying to this topic. At present for some modern day games, I use an old Dell Optiplex 520X with an HD 7950 GPU attached using an extender as it will not fit into the Dell case.

I'm really looking to play Elite: Dangerous but as you can imagine with my present setup it's impossible.
My youngest son is also an avid gamer although he uses an XBox One and I never get a look in even though I have always preferred PC gaming to the normal 'games systems'.

I honestly don't know whether I would qualify for this competition at all considering my setup, age etc.
However I thought I'd give it a try as nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Many thanks for all your interesting articles and videos.

Mercosity

 

[Dodgexander]

Looks like Akki is on track to win! Congratz! I have entered my system for the next episode! Good luck everyone and thanks for Techspot and Hardware Unboxed for doing this!

 

[psv1000]

Some powerful machines this time.

 

[Adel Alghamdi]

I think Akki worth the upgrade because he has the oldest components in the list, and he still survive.

 

[Edslet]

Jup, Akki deservers it. The case modding, the low specs. Good luck to you mate

 

[Khaotik]

Akki all the way. A 480 GTX and 4Gb of ram I don't know how his survived this long. Wish the owner of that case the best of luck.

 

[Frodo]

Awesome, gl guys

 

[Claymor22]

Good luck guys

 

[pryland10]

I had to vote for Akki. I think he needs it the most out of everyone.

Also think it is so awesome that Techspot is doing this and am enjoying the vids and reading. Thank you for bringing this to the net.