QOTW: Which PC components did you upgrade in 2020?

[Glyce]

All.

[jnutt]

Memory, moved from 16gb 3200mhz HyperX to 32gb 3600mhz G.Skill. Time spy went from 9977 to 10208 plus I get flashy led's on the ram LOL

[KultiVator]

Built an entirely new Ryzen 3900x / x570 system back in the spring - replaced an aging but still decent Intel 2700K that I may turn into a giant NAS box.

[LeetyMcLeet]

I've spent about £1500 on retro kit including a brand new 19" CRT, if that counts?

Would love to have replaced my faithful 3770K system, but then COVID happened. I'll probably just wait for Intel's offerings next year, assuming the GPUs are available by then.

[simonpreston]

Upgraded the Ryzen 1700 to a 3800X, which was a wonderful upgrade. Upgraded the laptop to 16GB of RAM and quadrupled its SSD to 1TB.

Think that's it.

[Rubarb]

Huge upgrade this year of a new keyboard and a new pc case..... that was it really :S

[ik9000]

My biggest problem is that however much I upgrade the system the user always stays the same. And I'm not sure but I reckon if I could do a side-by-side test that the 2000 version was a jolly site quicker, had better memory, and with lower latency too. It seems to have developed this weird intermitment creaking and every now and then emits a strange sort of northern whine "Eeeee" when under load. It never used to do that.

[Garndell]

Is it an upgrade if it's a whole new PC (kept some HDD's though)?

4770K > 3600X
Corsair H100i 240mm RAD > NZXT Kraken X63 280mm RAD (very tight fit)
Z87 > X570 (ASRock Phantom Gaming 4)
Patriot 16GB 2400MHz CL10 > G.Skill 32GB 3600MHz CL16
Sapphire RX 5700 > EVGA RTX 3080
1TB SATA SSD > 2TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD
Moved 2x 8TB HDD's to new build
Lian Li PC-A70S > Lian Li Lancool II Mesh RGB
Antec 750W (80+ Bronze) Semi Modular > EVGA SuperNova T2 850W (80+ Platinum)
23" 1080p IPS > 28" 4K IPS (tried 32", too big for the distance)

I still have the old PC running as a secondary machine.

[TAKTAK]

Replaced some bits after many many years of service:

i7 860 > 3700x
ASUS GTX 950 (Previously replaced eVGA GTX 280 SSC which blew up) > 5700XT 50th Anniversary
MSI P55 GD65 > ASUS ROG STRIX B450 F GAMING
500GB SanDisk SSD > 500GB Samsung 970 EVO M.2

[bowepa]

i5 4590 - AMD 5600X
SSD 512GB to NVME 1TB
Motherboard MSI Gaming Edge Wifi
Graphics Card GTX 1060 to RTX 3060Ti

[Spreadie]

I got a nice 2070 Super, for less than £300 during the great pre-3000 series panic sell-off, and a couple of 1TB M.2 drives. Oh, and I watercooled my main PC.

[Quartz]

My main PC got a remote control on/off switch and my spare PC got a Kolink Citadel Mesh case but my big upgrade was my desk.

[Avram Razvan]

Everything is so expensive right now. I'll wait for a bit

[BICEP]

9600k-9900k
980ti-3070
logitech g pro found on amazon warehouse for 60£

[micles5]

Just a 32 inch 1440p monitor. And now i want to get rtx 3060ti but i keep seeing out off stock every were

[Darkedge]

Well as the pound is about to tank even more and supplies are going to be much worse in 2021 due to brexit I pretty much did everything.

CPU and mobo was 4 years old so that got swapped for a Ryzen 5 5600x and a ASUS B550 gaming E. Nice 16GB of 3600 ram too for thrills. NVME for main drive was getting full at 256 so moved to a Sabrent Rocket 1tb PCIe 4 for just under a ton (prob best deal).
Back when I started working from home the screen got upgraded to a 35" ultrawide ROG TUF which was the BEST purchase as that has made such a difference to work and Gaming.
Before that at the start of the year I upped to a 5700 too as was best performance for price at the time and not a fan of Nvidia for their questionable attitude and business practices (many many reasons too long to go into here - great tech thou, not for me).

That's left me with a stonking PC that will last a few years and does cope pretty well with everything I have thrown at it so far. Will creak on cyberpunk a bit when they fix it (not buying for as few months) and doesn't do ray tracing but most I play & do it's more than enough