Do you replace or upgrade?

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Do you purely upgrade, purely replace, or somewhere in between?

Open my case? Are you crazy?
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No votes
Only functional, not performance upgrades*
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No votes
Only periphery, not core upgrades**
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9%
I consider everything, depends on what's cost efficient
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64%
I never upgraded before, but due to the recent slowdown I will now
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No votes
I mostly replaced, but due to the heat wall, I will mostly upgrade
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9%
I play a lot of games, so I upgrade my video card more than anything else
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No votes
I only upgrade
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9%
I don't trust paladium, I'll be keeping my current motherbard
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9%
 
Total votes: 11

mathias
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Do you replace or upgrade?

Post by mathias » Sun Oct 10, 2004 7:25 am

I thought this would go well with the "How often do you change your main system?" poll.

*(new disk drives, sound cards, TV cards, and the like)

**(everything but new motherboards and CPUs)

cooling replacement is of course excluded(including for the first option)

prof99
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Post by prof99 » Tue Oct 12, 2004 1:53 pm

I've only been upgrading during my whole PC "career". I don't do so often, however, and never go top-of-the-line; instead, most of my components are mid-range due to budget limits. Lately, my upgrades have obviously been for silence, but they also yield substantial performance benefits as well, such as improvements in hard drive speed, case airflow, and PSU efficiency.

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