Biggest upgrade ever! What's yours?

[Deleted]

Athlon 64 4000+ Singlecore @ 2.4GHz
nVidia 400 series chipset (As in, no graphics card)
250gb harddrive
15'' CRT screen
128mb ram

To:
i5 750, currently clocked to 4GHz
HD5770
P7P55D
Samsung Spinpoint F3 and a Seagate barracuda 250gb
4gb Corsair dominator RAM.
NH-D14

Going from 0 fps in raids, cities, and 1-3 FPS in the middle of nowherewith everything on lowest, to 60+ everywhere on ultra.

Also, I'm back as a regular now, I'll start posting again! (Because of me feeling physical pain because of the guy who bought an alienware, I might add)

[Deleted]

Take the PC vs Mac pisstakes elsewhere.
And yes, this goes for both sides. I'm interested in computer upgrades, not the offtopic discussion of the moment.

@Smeesh: Snap, that sounds like a really big difference.

You might not be intrested, but others are.
I don't like misinformation, so I comment on those being wrong. I expect others to do the same when I'm wrong.

[FearGX]

3 Computers over the last 6 years.

First Computer:

Intel Pentium 4 2.4 ghz single core
512mb ram
64mb onboard video
35gb HDD
200watt psu
windows xp
Played Battlefield 2 lowest settings 20fps

2nd computer:

AMD Althlon x2 2.5ghz dual core
2gb ram
250gb hdd
9600gt nvidia graphics card
500watt psu
windows xp

This computer played WoW and many other games around 2007-2010

3rd computer (current):

AMD Phenom II x4 Black Edition 970 3.5 Ghz Quad Core
4GB GSKILL DDR3 1333mhz Dual channel
Gigabyte HD 6850 Overclocked Edition
1000GB HDD
850watt PSU

Current computer, I plan to maybe add more ram, or upgrade cooling, other then that, saving for new computer (new AMD processors).

[Drunkenvalley]

You might not be intrested, but others are.
I don't like misinformation, so I comment on those being wrong. I expect others to do the same when I'm wrong.

a. Mac vs PC is still against the rules in the first place.
b. I'm going out on a limb and saying people are clicking the thread to read about computer upgrades.

And that's my final word on the subject. /shrug

[Morgaith]

Went from something from like 2000 or earlier to Alienware.

Not such a big upgrade:/.

[Deleted]

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Oh, wait, we were talking about computer hardware?

[charleybwoy]

My old crap 5-10fps in wow;

Intel Pentium Dual CPU E2220 @ 2.40GHz
1,75 Gb
NVIDIA GeForce 7100

My new baby 250fps in wow;

i5 2500k @ 4.4ghz / Z68
8gb HyperX
AMD Radeon HD6850

[Deleted]

My biggest upgrade were my ssd, for example... The bootup time went from a shocking 3-4 minutes to 30 seconds flat ready to use and there's absolutely no lagging whatsoever anymore (: Frikkin lovely!

[charleybwoy]

My biggest upgrade were my ssd, for example... The bootup time went from a shocking 3-4 minutes to 30 seconds flat ready to use and there's absolutely no lagging whatsoever anymore (: Frikkin lovely!

Thats on my wish list. soon, soon..

[OmnitronDefenseSystem]

I went from my first computer that I had to myself, a Compaq Presario Dekstop, It had a single core pentiumf at something stupid like 2.4 ghz, integrated graphics, and a 250 gb hard drive. Think it had 1gb ddr2 ram. I went from that to this self built setup, an AMD phenom ii x6 1055t, HD 6850, 4gb ddr3, and (Because I was stupid when I ordered my parts, I had filled up my budget already thinking I had all the parts I needed and forgot to add a hard drive) the same 250gb hdd reused. The difference is like night and day.

[charleybwoy]

@OmnitronDefenseSystem, Yes i believe you, big upgrade. Do you like your HD6850?? I do so far!

[Drunkenvalley]

Depending on HDD quality, buying a new quality hard drive may also be a new time of day difference for you.

[charleybwoy]

Hi Drunken! I got my computer early this week!, you remember you did help me with the parts its a beast, i like it and i would like to thank you ! Keep up the good work here

[sizzlinsauce]

core 2 duo e 8400, ati 2400 pro 60gb hdd, 2gb ram. 18" CRT monitor
to
phenom II 1100t, 16gb ram, 3 6950's 2.5tb hdd, 64gb ssd. 3 asus 27" LCD monitors

[Deleted]

Went from the first Dual code to an i5 the old pc lasted me abouy 6 years.

[ironik]

Went from the first Dual code to an i5 the old pc lasted me abouy 6 years.

LOL I rocked that same proc(Pentium D for those who don't know) for like 4 years until my house got broken into and my PC was stolen

[Heilige]

Core 2 Duo > i7 2600k . Upgraded all my other shit aswell but that was the biggest by far.

[RenegadeXan]

8400 GS to GTX 580
e6750 to i5 2500K
2Gig to 16 Gig

[Deleted]

Mine would have to be my SSDs. Went from like 100mbps to 1.2Gbps. I dont know what load times are anymore

Either you put 2x OCZ SSDs into raid, or you're just bullshitting. No SSDs are currently running 1.2Gbps, highest that a person that isnt in NASA can get is the one i've got at 600Mb/s read/write.

[DeltrusDisc]

Let's see, my first year of WoW I played on a Dell:

Intel single core CPU @3.0GHz
1 or 2GB of RAM.
80GB HDD
No video card.

Come about a year later, January 2009... Gateway POS:

Intel dual core CPU @2.5GHz
6GB of DDR2 RAM
600GB HDD
Added a BFG Tech 9800 GeForce GT 1GB DDR3 later replaced with a PNY XLR8 G.E. one.
Added a BFG Tech 450 watt PSU later replaced with current 650 watt Corsair TX V.1 PSU.

Come on into March/April 2011.... I built my own:

Intel i5-2500K now clocked @ 4.5GHz
16GB of DDR3 RAM CAS 9 latency and 1600MHz
MSI Twin Frozr II GTX 560 Ti @900/1800
Crucial m4 128GB SATA III 6Gb/s SSD
About 1.5TB of HDD space

That's all that really matters. :P

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Either you put 2x OCZ SSDs into raid, or you're just bullshitting. No SSDs are currently running 1.2Gbps, highest that a person that isnt in NASA can get is the one i've got at 600Mb/s read/write.

Ever heard of these?

But yeah he's probably bullshitting/doesn't know how to properly check bandwidth. Maybe he thinks his 2 SSDs can take full advantage of SATA III 6Gb/s bandwidth. ;p