Weekend Open Forum: When was the last time your PC got a major revamp?

[Per Hansson]

Per are you still using win 2000? or is that just on your server? ....or am I just having a senior moment? hehe

Oh no, I had to upgrade some year ago.
While Windows 2000 for sure is the best OS they ever released sadly an x86_64 version was never released, so it's not really usable on modern machines.
Right now I have a dual boot system, XP x64 & Win7 x64.
But it's Win7 that sees all the use nowdays.
Have just been too lazy to transplant it over to a SSD or something.
Will probably do a full system upgrade this winter, Haswell-E & PCIe NVMe SSD storage
Maybe even a Windows 8 beta, who knows?

 

[mosu]

Upgraded today with Crucial M550 256 GB SSD and another 8 GB DDR3 1866.Now testing...

 

[p51d007]

Current rig, built in 09, Core2 quad, Q8400, Intel DG45ID board, 8gig DDR2, Nvidia GTS250.
(not a gamer, only photoshop), HD, 7200rpm 300gb, external 2 TB, CD-DVD +rw
Haven't done a thing to it since it was built, coming up on 5 year, other than to blow out the
dust once a year. If anything is done to it, might be changing out the boot drive for a hybrid or
SDD. It does what I need it to do, that's all I need. Can't see any reason to spend the money on
something faster, for now.

 

[Antykain]

Just recently upgraded to a EVGA GTX 780 Ti Classy from a pair of EVGA GTX 560 Ti's... and man, what a difference in performance! I'll be going SLI again soon with another GTX 780 Ti Classy. First one is underwater along with the rest of the rig. Next on the list is either the new X99 platform when it's released. Depending on performance.. or Z97.

 

[Axle Greese]

Just like a pair of undies I wait until my PC gets old and crusty before splashing out the moolah. Under emergency conditions I bought a GTX 590 for Battlefield 3 but rarely do I ever upgrade individual components. The last build was in Jan 2009 and the next will happen later this year. It will include an X99 motherboard, an 8 or 12 core Haswell-E CPU, two high end graphics cards, and three large FHD G-Sync or FreeSync monitors, and all SSDs for storage. That should keep me going for years just like my last big upgrade.

 

[63Jax]

Well, last month. bought an Amd Fx 8320, 8 gb ram, sapphire radeon r9 280x, 256 gb ssd plextor m5, psu seasonic 620w, cooler master cpu liquid cooler, monitor dell p2314h, mouse steelseries sensei, mobo asus sabertooth 990fx, and I think that's about it, cost me one or two euros :/

 

[DDG4005]

It's been two years since the last major upgrades for my boxes. Right now I'm sitting on two PCs powered by Asus Z77 motherboards (P8Z77-V Premium), Ivy Bridge processors (3770) and GeForce GTX 770 graphics cards (4GB models). They're also outfitted with 16GB of RAM and 8TB of local storage as well as 27-inch LED monitors (IPS).

I can't justify upgrading right now.

 

[Guest]

Gaming PC #1
CPU upgrades are pointless, nothing uses them. My I5-2500K has been at 4.4 ghz for over 3 years and it's still within 5% of the top CPU on all games. I bought an R9 290 for $400 and that was just for BF4 (Which is amazing online, they shouldn't make any single player). Mantle BF4 runs at over 140 fps+ on my Qnix 2710 (2560x1440) with 'optimal graphics settings' for competitive FPS.

I'm planning on buying the following games in the next 6 to 12 months: (No upgrades required)
GTA 5 PC (Mantle supported)
Civilization 6 (Mantle supported)
Star Citizen (Mantle supported)
BF4 expansions (Mantle supported)
The Golf Club (Simulator edition - No Mantle support)

Gaming PC #2: Golf machine
I'm building a golf simulator in my garage.

Build:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 (Overclocked to 3.6) on P5Q-E (MATX)
4gbs DDR2
OCZ Vector 3 120gb SSD
Antec P160
GTX 760 or Radeon R9 280X for $200 (USED)
50 inch Samsung Plasma $750 + wall mount

Golf simulator gear:
$1000 Launch monitor to track real golf balls into a hitting net (Skytrakgolf.com) - Was just announced, these used to cost $6000.
$35 The Golf Club game
$100 Callaway Hitting net
$150 golf turf hitting mat

 

[Mr WW]

I've put sand Samsung EVO SSD 1 TB in my iMac 2011 (i7 ????)
And added 16 GB RAM -> 20 GB
-> the system flies!

 

[Soulburn74]

I hade a pretty decent jump last upgrade:
I went from a C2DQuadcore era CPU/Motherboard with mechanical HDD's and a GTX580, to an Ivy Bridge i7-3770K with SSD, and a Titan. I have LOVED it! Gaming is a big jump, but even more so, processor/IO bound intensive tasks such as video editing jobs are MUCH faster Sitting next to it is also a newly purchased HPz420 desktop with a Zeon e5-2687 (3.1-3.8ghz 8core) for use as a esxi host. I've thought about temporarily putting the titan in side it, and running windows on it, just to see if the extra cores are worth it in a desktop/workstation scenario.

 

[Jad Chaar]

Still running a Lenovo laptop and iMac from 2010. Hoping to upgrade in a year or two.

 

[Thannos]

Several years ago (4ish?) I switch from a Q6600 @ 3.2Ghz, 6GB DDR2 800Mhz, 500GB WD Black, 2x Geforce 8800 GTS to i7 970 @ 4 Ghz, 12GB DDR3 1600Mhz, 128GB 840 Pro + 1TB WB Black, 2x Geforce GTX 470s.

I recently added (5-6 months ago) a 2TB WB Black and 2x 4TB Seagate storage drives. About 2 months ago I upgraded to 2x Geforce 780 Ti. Just waiting until the Haswell-e to get released and upgrade to either a hex-core or octo-core version i7, the x99 chipset, and 12 to 16GB of 2400Mhz ram.