Weekend Open Forum: Your next hardware upgrade will be...?

Just upgraded to a Q9550 and could not be happier now all I need is a "5870". I am still using my 8800GTX but it is getting long in the tooth. Sign me up for a ATI 5870

I'm a computer enthusiast and in no way work for them but I found this very interesting especially since I am old enough to remember the Amgias but to young to have a job at the time

http://www.a-eon.com/6.html

My next upgrade will be a downgrade. Selling the Obsidian 800D and replacing it with the 700D - no preinstalled window so I can get some custom etching and CNC work done. Will probably retire the Armor+ for a Lian Li PC-A77F in my secondary system.
Will leave the CPU/GPU upgrades for the foreseeable future- the next gen (2011) might offer better functionality, but haven't run into anything at present my present setups can't handle. Haven't seen or played a DX11 game yet worthy of the hoopla (just another variation of over-hyped eye-candy at present in the same vein as 8+ AA and PhysX).
I'll also wait awhile on the SSD tech until the process is a little less rough around the edges...although if someone made this affordable I think I might re-consider.

Can anyone tell me about putting an Nvidia card in an AMD system? Does it work well? Are there problems with that? Or should I just stick with an ATI card?

This is the same question you asked yesterday…
http://www.techspot.com/vb/post866537-22.html
that was answered by ET3D…
http://www.techspot.com/vb/post866556-25.html
Did you not like ET3D’s answer? or maybe the answer was bewildering to you in it's complexity ?

I might get myself a new AMD processor. My current 5000+ BE has been giving me headaches with undervolting. For one, it's incompatible with RMClock. And I haven't been able to get it stable with CrystalCPUID under Windows 7 x64. I might get myself one of those AMD X3 440 or X4 630 and hopefully undervolt them with K10Stat!

I probably won't do much else to my rig except replace the 92mm side intake fan with a quieter 120mm one. My max resolution is 1280x1024, and i can play Crysis at "gamer" settings with my E8500, 260GTX, and 4 Gb DDR2 RAM. Maybe someday i will get a bigger monitor, then a new mobo, CPU, GPU, and memory sometime after that.

I would like to build a new rig for my stepson, who is saving up for a PS3. I can't convince him that for $200 I can upgrade his motherboard, memory, and CPU to let him play any modern games (i'll steal the 8800GT form my wife's computer) and that he will still have money left over to buy a few games. He is currently using a 3.06GHz P-IV with a 9600PRO AGP card.

Whole new computer, probably a highend i7 with a highend ATI 6 series.

Possibly a new CPU and water-cooling system. I already have 8GB of RAM, a GeForce GTX 275 and 1TB of storage. My AMD Phenom X4 isn't bad, but I wouldn't mind having a Phenom II X4.

My next upgrade will be all the core components, CPU, GPU, Mobo and RAM. My system is a few years old now but is still plenty fast for what I need right now. At some point I'd like to upgrade to an i5 system with a newer GPU and DDR3.

I just bought a new rig a few weeks ago for gaming;]

i3-530
ASUS P7H55-M PRO
G.Skill ripjaw 1600 Mhz
ASUS voltage tweak 5850
Antec modular 650W
Lian LI Lancool KW58

I already had hard drive monitor and dvd reader

as a gaming rig this is BIG bang for the buck everything except the 5850 cost me 400
so total was 700 for this badass

My next rig will probably not be untill Intel releases their next chipset that will replace X58 as the high end along with the next gen quad cores
that along with a mother board that can handle tri crossfire as I would buy 2 more 5850
and ofc a new power supply ;]

so my next rig will be

chipset that replaces X58
Next gen quad cores
tri crossfire 5850's ;]

As a graduating 3D Artist and Overclock enthusiast I am looking into a killer system like: i7 930 (or one of the lower priced hexacores if they are cheap enough), ASUS P6T WS, 12GB of DDR3 1333Mhz, 5850, Lianli Case A10-B, Prolimatech Megahalems Heatsink, WD Black 1TB for now and at least 100GB of SSD when they get cheaper, and Corsair HX Series 850W.

Gotta a really good CPU and RAM for rendering so that's where my money is going, and definitely overclocking the CPU to at least 3.6Ghz but knowing the Prolimatech, I'll probably get it to 3.8 =)

I'm not sure when is going to be my next hardware upgrade, but the gtx 295 looks so fine

my next upgrade will be 6 core core i7,fermi 480,8gb ram,2TB hard disk after 3 years .Hope they will be cheap after 2/3 yrs and i can afford them.hehe.

what about a new computer with new hardware... so there's no need for upgrade...

My current rig is almost 1 year old, and the component I feel most needs upgrading is the CPU. I bought it with 8GB of RAM, upgraded disk space to 1TB, bought a new graphics card then won an even better one here, so I feel covered on these fronts. The Phenom II 710 is decent, but there are better things on the market (and unlocking the 4th core didn't work). If AMD comes out with an AM2+ compatible 6 core low cost CPU in the next year, there's a chance I'll upgrade to it. Actually, a new PSU will do me some good, but a good start would be to fix the current one.

But really my current itch is more towards a small casual platform for web browsing, e-book reading and such, a low cost low weight slate or UMPC. There's a lot of stuff promised for this year, so I'm waiting to see what will happen in this area. That'd take precedent over upgrading my PC.

I will buy building a new computer from scratch soon, so I guess it's a complete upgrade. The most important hardware that I am willing to spend top dollar for is the SSD. No more than 60gb, and not less than 225 read and write.

core i5 ftw, my e7300 is beginning to show its age and I want to be ready for starcraft 2 in ultra settings.

I'll be getting a house and a car.

That's a good plan, I mean without a house you can't keep a computer