SenorToenails wrote:
I upgrade when I can't play the games I want anymore (the most advanced game I play if BF2, so my standards aren't high...) or when the hardware I want is on super sale and I have the cash for it..
I am the same. If I cannot play the new 'must have' titles on high or respectable settings, then I feel the need to upgrade. This 'step-up' in hardware demand normally only happens at least every year, so it's not such an expensive preference
. Although, one of the biggest problems with it is the way that technology 'moves on'
altogether. A month ago I was in the situation where socket939 and DDR RAM didn't cut the bread anymore, even though it was a respectable system ~12 months prior to that. So, now I'm sat here on a quad-core SLi'd DDR2 machine, just wondering when that ultra-expensive DDR3 RAM is going to become the industry standard >.<.
I do have one exception when it comes to my 'upgrade rule', and that is with storage space. Within reason, I'll buy more internal hard-drives as I need them. Supply 'n' demand style. Although, when I say "within reason", I mean when there's nothing more that I can't possibly delete, and no more space that I can possibly save.