QOTW: Which PC components have you upgraded in 2016?

[Biscuit]

Upgraded a short USB lead for a longer one.

And I thought my contribution to the thread was pointless

[outwar6010]

Does openback headphones count as a pc upgrade?

[pastymuncher]

I wasn't actually planning on upgrading anything as Skylake offers next to nothing over Haswell and a new gpu is laughably out of reach due to silly prices. Then my primary ssd was showing as developing a fault according to the Sandisk software (still not sure that there is actually anything wrong with it). Just to be safe I got a brand new SD Hynix SL301 250Gb ssd when Scan had them on offer for £42. I then saw that Ebuyer were selling 960Gb Sandisk Ultra II ssd's for £156 so I got one of those as well and done away with a hdd altogether. That's my lot for this year though.

[karandar]

I've started watching sales and picking up parts to replace my old 3770k and dual 680 GTX rig of near 4.5 years.

so far an EVGA 750w G2 PSU
Samsung 950 Pro 512 gb M.2 SSd
32gb G.Skill Trident Z 3000 DDR4
2 x Wd 2tb Caviar black HDD
Corsair H115i water cooler
I'm going to recycle my HAF X case

Ultimately I would like to wait for Vega, and the 1080Ti GPU's in early 2017, but may pick up a 480 or possibly a 1070 to tie me over.

As to CPU and platform, I'm indifferent as to Zen or Kaby lake on AM4 or 2xx chipset, especially if the pricing I've seen for the new Intel 'E' line chips is true .. I'm quietly rooting for AMD as the industry needs competition to keep pricing and performance marching on - my 3770k is still a very capable cpu 3 generations later, it's the chipset goodies that are compelling me to upgrade, and the 16 PCI lanes limiting the Z77 chipset

Being from Canada, the currency exchange rate is challenging when buying new hardware... Hunting really good sales over several months really helps!

As to monitors, i currently has 3 Dell 1080p IPS screens in surround that is pretty cool for gaming, and most excellent for business tasks and photo editing with so much screen ...

I'm intrigued by some of the coming rumored monitors in around the 35" 4k HDR with high refresh and adaptive sync technology - we'll have to see if there is a compelling enough product this year

What a fantastic technology year. Super fast M.2, speedy yet affordable DDR4, 14/16nm video cards and AMD Zen, even the incremental updates coming from Intel, along with HDR screens all being released near the same time... VR for now is a curiosity, but the new hardware make it much more a possibility for the masses...

[deejayburnout]

Nothing major as of yet. I did get new fan mounts for my hyper 212 air cooler.

I do need new HDDs ad my current drives are all 6 years and older. Too small as well.

[acrilo]

Bought a Watercooler for my CPU, got a Fury X, bought a new case. Lost my job.

[dfour]

Nothing yet. just waiting for vega and zen and then all my money will disappear over night

[walker15130]

Nothing so far. Only OCed my ram up to 2400

[ET3D]

Bought a new laptop and waiting for Bristol Ridge to upgrade the HTPC.

I did buy a new PSU for the HTPC this year, but it didn't fit and I returned it. Cleaned the old one and it's quieter now, and hopefully with lower power hardware noise won't be an issue even when loaded.

[jamiehard1989]

New ram, new case, 290 and a 850 evo


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[BadHead]

My old ASUS Crossfire V died on me a few months ago and so I have had to replace that on with a noew GIGABYTE GA990FX-gamin. This is a great MB for the old AMDFX platform as it has a M.2 port and USB3.1 ports. I used the M.2 port to put a 512GB Samsung 950 Pro nVME PCIe SSD. I updated my case as well and replaced my old and (very) aging AKASA Eclipse 62 with a new Phanteks Ethnoo Special Edition with Orange interior. Unfotunately, I had to dump my old RME Hammerfall as it has a PCI connection, and this MB only comes with PCIe slots. I'm stuck using the onboard Audio until I can afford a new RME HDSPe AIO. Still, the onboard audio is excellent, so that's good.

I wish my MB could have lasted long enough for the new AMD ZEN platform. But I couldn't have afforded a wholw new system anyway as I would have had to buy a new processor and new DDR4 RAM. As it is, my current AMD and DDR3 RAM is plenty fast enough.

[Hoonigan]

Everything!

Upgraded my PC in the "My system". Also bought a new mouse, keyboard, headset and mousemat. Monitor is next I think.

[outwar6010]

Everything!

Upgraded my PC in the "My system". Also bought a new mouse, keyboard, headset and mousemat. Monitor is next I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_iAE2JIyEE

[Presto86]

Nothing yet,but will be replacing my 10 year old 300gb HDD for a SSD to use as a boot drive.

[ET3D]

Just crossed my mind that I replaced the HDD in my Thinkpad X120e with a SSD. Didn't buy that SSD this year, I bought it a little over 2 years ago for the desktop, but I haven't used the desktop in a little under 2 years. The Thinkpad is the laptop being replaced (by a Dell XPS 13), so the HDD will likely go back to no being used. This upgrade did improve the usability of the X120e quite a bit.

[Unique]

upgrades to me are almost as regular as food shopping. this month one of my desktops died so bought a new server to replace it, bought extra ram, extra raid card, a couple of new HDD's, bunch of various cables for monitors

i'm on a lookout for a new wireless mouse and maybe a new keyboard, and may get a cheap r7 graphics card for the server as the displayport to hdmi has no sound. not that i really need to use it

i also started using win10 on the new pc. i have it on a tablet and played with VM's but using it properly and it's not that different from win7 and apart from the lack of drivers for old raid cards, if the hardware works then it's fine. i actually like it. not sure if i want to upgrade my other pc and find none of the raid cards work though, but i might copy the bootdisc and upgrade and see if it works and revert back if it doesn't

i tend to spend a fortune on computers but i do use them so much during my waking hours and one is on permanently whilst i'm at home, even asleep, so it makes sense to spend on what you use the most. i don't usually go crazy on high end top spec stuff, more bang for buck price and it's a harmless hobby