QOTW: When was the last time you upgraded your PC?

[InnocentFool]

10 years ago, I'm running a Q9650, 8GB ram, HD 4870 and mechanical HDD.
It's great having no money (household bills [and nasty surprises] come first)

[Presto86]

Just over 3 years ago now, might upgrade cpu and motherboard next year will wait and see.

[JJ452]

Last time I built a new rig was 2012: 3960X, AMD 7970, 32GB 2400MHz, 2TB storage drive 240GB Samsung Pro SSD.

I've upgraded parts of it since - running an 1080Ti, Samsung 970 Pro 1TB (PCI-E adapter and custom BIOS to boot) but the rest is the same. Probably won't replace the Mobo or CPU until they die.

Only thing I really want is a new monitor with G-Sync.

[peterb]

I upgraded my server (new mobo, case) about 4 years ago - I put a system SSD in 18 months ago, and just upgraded the software to Fedora core 28.

As my main PC is OSX based, hardware upgrades are less easy (but not really necessary) but the OS is upgraded as and when upgrades are released.

[jaffire]

Prime sale a few months back, added a 2TB SSD. And picked up an LG 32GK850G-B back in June, was an offer i couldn't refuse (£100 cheaper than currently selling) as my HP LP2475w was beginning to show it's age.

Still rocking the Sandy Bridge (i7-2600k) boat along with a lot of other people, added 32gb DDR3 when it was really cheap and now i grudge to pay current prices for a DDR4 platform upgrade.

[big_hairy_rob]

Around a year ago. My previous rig needed replacement. Been very happy with the upgrades.

[Phrontis]

I built an i7 5820K with 16GB of memory in an AsRock X99 motherboard about 4 years ago. It's got a decent AMD FirePro W5000, which is used for AutoCAD and I have had no need to upgrade it at all. However the monitors have changed. Now I've got a 3 monitor setup with 2 Dell 16:10 24" monitors and 1 Benq 32" 2K monitor. I like to use a monitor at the natural resolution and with my ageing eyes a 4K monitor is just too small. It all works fine for me. The other alteration was my beloved IBM Model M keyboard gave up the ghost after over 20 years, it has been replaced by a Unicomp keyboard with buckling spring keys. Not quite as good as the IBM but near enough.

https://www.keyboardco.com/keyboard/...-black-usb.asp

[Griffinix]

Two years ago with a 500GB SSD.

[=assassin=]

Just over two years ago I bought an NVidia GTX 1060 6gb, and some extra RAM, and also added a SanDisk SSD (which I won from Hexus, thanks again!), and they have kept me with enough performance to last hopefully a while yet, as I never get games on release, I always wait a year or so for a bargain. The base PC though is 8 and a half years old now, so it's reaching the end I guess, but surprisingly the CPU (Intel 875K) is still doing well performance wise, so I could survive a bit longer yet.

[Korrorra]

End of 2017 with a partial rebuild for AMD Ryzen. Also a GTX 770 2GB upgrade to 1070 8GB. Most everything was on sale and before the mining started jacking up the prices insanely.

[Kevin P]

I'm running a couple year old 7700k with a power color red devil rx 470 - about a year ago added a 1tb 960 EVO , also a pair of 2tb WD black caviar drives and 32gb 3000 Gskill memory

I picked up the big 49" samsung cgh90 last boxing day and it rocks - holding out until next spring - ish for a gpu upgrade -

Honestly - the biggest feeling update was the SSD - moving from a slightly OC 3770K to the 7700k didn't really feel like a big upgrade. I like the new baked in extra features of the new motherboard - faster usb, baked in M.2 etc ...

Honestly, all of the 8+ core cpu's - most simply will never utilize them. A gamer runs into very few games that with use 8 threads - One day I suppose...

Karandar

[Mngereso]

Two months ago, Got a new 850W PSU and a second hand but pristine GTX 1080 for cheap off ebay after I saw the pricing of the new RTX cards. Had my heart set on a 2080ti for at most 800$, but Nvidia had other plans.

[azrael-]

I've done a couple of upgrades this year.

The latest was in September when I swapped out my GTX 970 for a GTX 1080. Before that (in August) I finally swapped out a 2 TB WD Green with an 8 TB WD Red. Had the disk on the shelf since January.

Oh, and I got myself an Acer XB271HU 27" G-Sync monitor, if that counts. That was in August as well.

[wateva76]

Earlier this year I built a new PC, and repurposed some of the old gear. So my old Xeon E3-1230 v3 CPU, 250GB 840 EVO, and some 1TB WD HDDs got a new Supermicro X10SAE motherboard, and 24GB DDR3 ECC, which is running FreeNAS. That's all currently mounted inside a Thermaltake Core X5 case. I'm intending on replacing that case with a rack case and mounting it in a rack.

My new gaming PC is a Ryzen 7 1700X, MSI X370 Gaming M7 ACK, 24GB DDR4, Sapphire RX580 Special Ed, and 500GB m.2 NVMe 960 EVO, is mounted inside another Thermaltake Core X5, which is then mounted on top of the FreeNAS server case, with a Mushkin Source 1TB m.2 SATA SSD for my games (I'd love to replace this with an NVMe SSD when I get the chance). I'm intending on replacing this Core X5 with a Thermaltake W200 SuperTower, as there is a third PC that I infrequently use for older games (it runs Windows 7) that I would put into the other side of the W200.

My next upgrade probably won't be until the next gen Zen CPU's come out, and I'm considering pairing that with an Nvidia GPU (rather than the very bland stuff from AMD, which doesn't seem like an upgrade, but more like a sidegrade).

[spacein_vader]

Earlier this year I built a new PC, and repurposed some of the old gear. So my old Xeon E3-1230 v3 CPU, 250GB 840 EVO, and some 1TB WD HDDs got a new Supermicro X10SAE motherboard, and 24GB DDR3 ECC, which is running FreeNAS. That's all currently mounted inside a Thermaltake Core X5 case. I'm intending on replacing that case with a rack case and mounting it in a rack.

My new gaming PC is a Ryzen 7 1700X, MSI X370 Gaming M7 ACK, 24GB DDR4, Sapphire RX580 Special Ed, and 500GB m.2 NVMe 960 EVO, is mounted inside another Thermaltake Core X5, which is then mounted on top of the FreeNAS server case, with a Mushkin Source 1TB m.2 SATA SSD for my games (I'd love to replace this with an NVMe SSD when I get the chance). I'm intending on replacing this Core X5 with a Thermaltake W200 SuperTower, as there is a third PC that I infrequently use for older games (it runs Windows 7) that I would put into the other side of the W200.

My next upgrade probably won't be until the next gen Zen CPU's come out, and I'm considering pairing that with an Nvidia GPU (rather than the very bland stuff from AMD, which doesn't seem like an upgrade, but more like a sidegrade).

Serious question, why rack mount? Companies do it to fit as much as they can into the space available but the trade-off is worse thermals (hence the need for a/c,) and lots of very small fans screaming away making them very loud. Unless you're very tight for space at home I can't see why you'd do it.

[Salazaar]

Last month, but it was only a shiny new keyboard so not much change except a bit of RGB-ification. Considering a shift to an mATX/Ryzen build at some point in not too distant future.