How often do you guys upgrade?

[g13man]

my 386 got a 486x4 got a 233 got a 500k6-2 mb ; logitec trackmanmarble ; ati8m aiw vid ; memory as needed [just enough] then alot of cd players until quality lit-on [ recycled everthing from any where] lasted 6 years before
now 2.5 year old 3.2gig754pin ; 1gigcas2 ; 9800xt ; lit-on dvd-r ; 420w ps ; logitec trackman wheel ; typematrix ezr2030 ; everething else recycled from else where]
these are my two komps

for every 3 junk komps i recycle , i get 1 working , such as
1 2gig intel
2 433 celerons,1 566
350 p2's 4 of them
way to many 166/mmx

 

[Orac]

Usually individual PC areas as needed until all of it won't do what I want to today or parts/software unavailable or not cost efficient.
Commodore 64 from 1984 to 1992, then Apple Performa 400 1992 to 1999, then Win98 450mhz PC 1999 to 2006, then WinXP P4 3.0 2006 to present. I thought a 200GB HD on current system would be plenty, until I started putting my sisters VHS-C tapes (21 of them) onto DVD's. I wasn't really noticing how much drive space this took up after editing & all. Just bought a 300GB external HD for that project alone. Should suffice, but I really won't know until I'm done with Tape 21 onto DVD.

 

[Serpent666]

Just had my new rig built a few months back (specs below) but my old PC is an Athlon XP2800+ with 1.5Gb DDR ram , 80Gb ata133 HD, 5900 nvidia card and sb audigy. Pretty much upgraded everything in the box except the floppy disk drive over the 6 years i had it. For the new rig i will probably upgrade the video card in about a year or 2 but think the rest will be fine for at least 3 years for what i need it for.

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ASUS P5W DH Deluxe mobo
2Gb DDR2 corsair PC5400C4 (OC to 800)
E6600 Intel CPU
250Gb WD SATA II HD (16Mb cache)
SB Audigy 4
ASUS 7900GT 256Mb video card
Antec SOLO case
Antec Neo HE 500 Watt PSU
Netgear DG834PN modem router
Viewsonic VX922 19" LCD monitor

 

[chuckshissle]

Whenever my hardware is not good enough for high-quality and performance and when I saved up enough money for it.