How many people upgrade their computers every couple/few years? The answer depends greatly of course.
My wife's HP PC, Intel quad-core Q6600 CPU is now mine. It was my 'lab' server. But today made it my daily driver. 8GB RAM, Corsair SSD disk, Win2012 server with Office (Win 8 is the same). Added a $45 video card (AMD HD54xx series) to it that made all the difference in the world.
OpenOffice loads in under 2 seconds. MS Office 2010, 1 second.
Kill-A-Watt measures under 100W all the time. I'm amazed at the performance from a 5yo PC with only a couple upgrades, video card and SSD drive. This thing screams.
I was ready to buy a new AMD A10 CPU, M/B and 8GB of PC-1866 RAM for under $300 (NewEgg special this week) but couldn't see a single reason why was this 5yo PC runs VERY fast.
5 years old!!
I almost replaced this unit with a MacMini, glad I didn't. I'm happy keeping the $$ in my pocket and enjoying the excellent performance.
Do you all just upgrade parts in your PC's to keep them going or do you replace the PC every so often?
My wife's HP PC, Intel quad-core Q6600 CPU is now mine. It was my 'lab' server. But today made it my daily driver. 8GB RAM, Corsair SSD disk, Win2012 server with Office (Win 8 is the same). Added a $45 video card (AMD HD54xx series) to it that made all the difference in the world.
OpenOffice loads in under 2 seconds. MS Office 2010, 1 second.
Kill-A-Watt measures under 100W all the time. I'm amazed at the performance from a 5yo PC with only a couple upgrades, video card and SSD drive. This thing screams.
I was ready to buy a new AMD A10 CPU, M/B and 8GB of PC-1866 RAM for under $300 (NewEgg special this week) but couldn't see a single reason why was this 5yo PC runs VERY fast.
5 years old!!
I almost replaced this unit with a MacMini, glad I didn't. I'm happy keeping the $$ in my pocket and enjoying the excellent performance.
Do you all just upgrade parts in your PC's to keep them going or do you replace the PC every so often?