Most of them.
AMD A8-6600k to AMD FX-8350
Asus M5A97 R2 to Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3
AMD HD 6850 to dual AMD R9 290s
HP 18.5" 1366x768 to Asus 28" ultrawide + Acer 24"
Thermaltake Water 2.0 Performer to Corsair H80 CPU cooler
Also added a 2 TB Seagate HDD, a 128 GB SanDisk SSD for boot drive and a 240 GB Crucial SSD for games.
Upgraded most of my computer.
Went from i860 to i7-4771, from 8GB G.Skill RAM to 32 GB Corsair, Asus Sabretooth 55i to ASUS R.O.G. Maximus Gene VI, from ATCS840 computer case to Node 804, from ND-H14 cooler to Corsair 100i cooler, from my GTX580 to a GTX970, from Razer BW Ultimate Stealth to Corsair K70 RGB, from Madcatz R.A.T. M.M.O. 7 to Logitech G502. Think that covers my computer expenses. ^^
For the finishing touch, might say I swapped internal Blu-ray writer from Plextor (960S) to an external one LG BE14UN40.
Went from i7 920 quadcore (liquid cooled 2.66GHz>3.5GHz) to Xeon 5650 Hexcore (basically an i7 980 and same liquid cooler 2.66GHz>4.2GHz and using less power) and from HD2800XT (Aircooled) to HD7970 (liquid cooled). And did all this for just under £200
took a plunge and upgraded to a 4k monitor, TP link Modem Router D9 and a Deck keyboard.
Replaced my 3.5" floppy drive for a sd card reader...
.. only joking!
Everything apart from keyboard, mouse and PSU then my pay got cut back so I will save up and replace them in 2015.
Mobo/Ram/CPU
"Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be." Frank Zappa. ----------- "The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." Huang Po.----------- "A drowsy line of wasted time bathes my open mind", - Ride.
Added another 250gb SSD just for Steam and changed from a XSPC Rasa vga block to a EK Thermosphere vga block because it was cheap. Apart from that no change and with the tiny gains being made on the cpu front I expect to stick with what I have for quite some time.
Built two top spec gaming PCs for me an my partner, one with a new shiny 970, SSDs all around even in my laptop. I'm avoiding 4k and ddr4 at the moment as neither have really impressed me enough to warrant the expense. I'd love to see some real world tests of ddr4 vs ddr3 as the latency of ddr4 is not impressive. And 4k offers only minor benefits at the moment as I only have room for a 24" screen.
I've not upgraded anything this year as I haven't had the money to :/ My potential upgrades for next year include a) more memory and/or b) a new grahics card. I currently have 6Gb memory, but I've noticed alot of the latest and greatest upcoming games are mentioning 8Gb or more, so I'm not sure whether getting a new graphics card would help if my system is memory limited. I'd probably have to upgrade both at once.
Some upgrades from my birthday this year:
GIGABYTE GA-Z77-DS3H MOTHERBOARD to replace the XPS 8300 turdell mobo
Bought SEAGATE BARRACUDA 2TB 64MB, and a Sandisk SSD 64GB mSATA for Win7
NOVATECH DEFENDER MID TOWER RED to replace my XPS 8300 case
HYPER 212 EVO CPU COOLER for my i5 2500k processor from stock
Hopefully I can get free delivery for the GIGABYTE G1 GTX 970 GPU to replace my PNY GTX 660 from 2 years ago!
Last edited by robhunter3; 06-12-2014 at 04:12 AM.
I only upgraded my graphics card (GTX 560 TI to a GTX 970). Other than an SSD last year, I don't think my rig has changed for 5 or 6 years now, so little is the progress.
Oddly, the one upgrade I've been drawn to is a new motherboard... I want a recent ASUS board, with the ability to turn fans off and on (at different speeds) with a couple of clicks. But I'd need a new CPU and RAM, so its obviously far too costly for that one relatively minor advantage.
You know the PC market has stalled when one of the biggest upgrades you're considering for years is the ability to easily turns fans on and off...
560ti to 280x crossfire!
I recently upgraded both my PCs to 32GB of RAM each from 16GB.
A man must have code -Bunk
GTX 660Ti -> GTX 770 (used) days ago.
Also, looking closely the 21:9 displays.
Upgraded my CPU cooler from spire thermax eclipse to deepcool lucifer, certainly noticed and improvement (managed to overclock further).
Upgraded my 2 raid 0 hard drives form 500gb each to 2tb each (barracudas), certainly notice a boost in performance, works really well with my SSD cache, ie fast when something isn't on the cache and fast at sequential reads (I do a lot of video editing).
Not much spent but very happy with the upgrader and performance they brought.
Keyboard and Mouse: Wireless to Wired
CPU: 955 BE to FX-8350
GPU: 4870 1GB to R9 270
As for whether they have lived up to expectations, I'm happy to say that the answer is yes.
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