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Cipher Jones
The Thomas Edwards Taco Tuesday All Stars
#1 - 2011-12-09 05:31:43 UTC
I just upgraded from...
dual core AMD 2000ishMhz
2 gigs of dual chan DDR2
GT 430 512MB

to...
Athalon II X3 450 3200Mhz
8 gigs of dual chan DDR3
450 GTS 2GB

Also from 32 bit Vista to 64 bit 7. What an amazing difference. Eve @ 1600X900 at full settings full AA and 2 windowed clients on the 2nd monitor.

What did you last go to from?

internet spaceships

are serious business sir.

and don't forget it
Shivus Tao
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2011-12-09 11:53:05 UTC
My last upgrade was from a pentium 4 3.0ghz, 1gb ram, geforce 7600 GS to a custom built Core 2 duo E8500 OC'd at 3.8ghz, 4gb ddr2 800 ram, GTX 260 core 216. Also jumped resolution from 1280X1024 to 1920X1080.

It was a night and day difference as well. I won't have to upgrade again until microsoft and sony come out with whatever the next incarnation of their consoles are. It's the one good side effect of consoles stifling development and everything being pushed towards consoles.
Caleidascope
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2011-12-10 06:17:34 UTC
P3 1 GHz
1 gig of ram
Radeon 9250
Win 98

to

Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4 GHz
2 gig ram
GeForce 8400
Win Xp

Life is short and dinner time is chancy

Eat dessert first!
Lithalnas
Dirt 'n' Glitter
Local Is Primary
#4 - 2011-12-10 07:22:18 UTC
In a few short weeks I am going from an AMD 4000 to a AMD A8-3850. To put that in perspective; the old system could barely run Modern Warfare 2. The new system should be able to run BF3 and Skyrim. I will probably post how it goes in a guide for "super cheap EVE pc"

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VKhaun Vex
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#5 - 2011-12-10 07:57:01 UTC
I don't even remember what I had last.

Back in early 2008 (March, around my birthday.) I built an E8400 wolfdale with an 8800gt 512mb on a good motherboard. Since then all I've done is add a new card, and not even because I needed it. Some issue with Dragon Age. The game should not have been a challenge the 8800gt512, but it made it red hot and destroyed it one day when I geeked out and played it for like nine ours.

More than three years later it still massacres everything on max settings except the obvious hardware trap games, like Crysis when it first came out, and it looks like I'll be able to run both D3 and GW2 on it.

Probably won't even think about upgrading in 2012 or 2013, unless we get some kind of MMOFPS.

Charges Twilight fans with Ka-bar -Surfin's PlunderBunny LIIIIIIIIIIINNEEEEE PIIIEEEECCCCEEE!!!!!!! -Taedrin Using relativity to irrational numbers is smart -rodyas I no longer believe we landed on the moon. -Atticus Fynch
Dak Dallocort
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2011-12-10 08:54:20 UTC
Went from a store-bought PC that I added a beefier psu and a video card to:

Athlon X2 220 @ 2.8ghz
4gb DDR3 1333
HD 4830 512mb
1440x900 monitor
Win Vista 32-bit

To my first custom build:

Phenom X4 970 @ 3.8ghz (oc)
8gb DDR3 1600
HD 6950 2gb
1920x1200 monitor
Win 7 64-bit

The difference is astounding. Like having poor eyesight then getting a pair of contacts. The cool thing is that the cpu is pretty much solid for the next 3 or 4 years as far as gaming is concerned, and I bought more psu then I needed so when it comes time to upgrade all I have to do is toss an additional Radeon card into the other pci-e slot and I'm good to go. When ssd prices become more reasonable I may add one for the OS.
leviticus ander
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2011-12-10 10:02:46 UTC  |  Edited by: leviticus ander
my last upgrade was from a 640GB HDD to a 120GB SSD for the boot drive. beyond that the upgrades I've had are
CPU
1.8 single core locked
2.5 dual core unlocked

RAM
2GB 9-9-9-30 666MHz
8GB 5-5-6-15 1333MHZ

GPU
8800GTS 320MB
4870 512MB

HDDs
the addition of 3 1TB drives
the addition of 2 2TB drives

all of these upgrades were made at different times so I don't know what the difference was like.
I know that the CPU helped to pretty much anything.
the RAM was good as about a month after I got that I had to virtualize a network of windows 7 machines.
the graphics card didn't do much, but it probably helps when it comes to using dual screen monitors.
and the HDDs are all full of movies, music, and TV shows.
I can't say much about the SSD as my regular OS was horribly slow before I upgraded anyways so I don't know how much of the change was from upgrading to an SSD and how much was from having a new OS.
Wired
Workhorse Industries
#8 - 2011-12-10 16:04:17 UTC
Old system (Purchased 4 years ago)
E6750 (Dual Core 2.66 Ghz)
4GB RAM
500GB HDD
8800GT (512MB) <-- Replaced with 9800GT 6 months ago when it decided to stop working mid-BF:BC2
650W PSU
Vista 32bit

New System (Purchased 2 months ago)
I7-2600K (Quad Core, Hyperthreaded, 3.4Ghz)
16GB RAM
GTX 570 (1280MB)
64GB SSD
2TB HDD
850W 85+Gold PSU (I like my super effecient PSU)
Win7 64bit

I now get 7.6 on Windows Experience Index, its my CPU thats letting my system down.

I noticed a slight difference, CQ now runs at a consistent 60fps (Interval One) with everything turned on (when i get out of my ship).
BF3 looks nice too.
So does Skyrim
So does 'The Witcher 2'
FluterEx
22nd Black Rise Defensive Unit
#9 - 2011-12-11 11:18:53 UTC
Old system:

Vista Ultimate 64
Raidmax Saggita
Asus M3A32 MVP Deluxe
AMD 64 X2 6000+ (2x 3Ghz)
AMD HD 4850
4GB DDR2 800
500GB HDD
650W PSU


New system (in construction):

Win7 64bit
HAF X 942
Asus Crosshair V TB
AMD FX 8150 (6x 3,7Ghz)
2x AMD HD 6970
8GB DDR3 1800
64GB SSD
2TB HDD
1500W PSU

This system will be Watercooled.
AlleyKat
The Unwanted.
#10 - 2011-12-12 16:05:52 UTC
It has been a long time...

Old ('03)

P4 extreeeme

current (since '06)

Q6600

Next (April/May '12):

  • IB vanilla or SB-E
  • 32GB DDR4 (IF available)
  • NV 680 GTX 3GB
  • 5 TB storage
  • 500GB-1 TB SSD Hybrid
  • 32GB SSD RAM Preview Drive for AE


And if they ever make them:

30" 120Hz IPS 'Panel

In the interim, probably a new 24" IPS/PVA/MVA to tide me over and replace my current MPVA 24" 10-bit which is getting serious IR, surprisingly.

All-in, budgeting at about $5-6k and should last my needs for another 5-7 years, like my current system has.

If all I did was game, I'd probably splash out about $750-1K tops - no need for much more than that right now, PC's are cheap and games (especially DX9 games, like EVE) ain't as demanding as everyone makes them out to be.

AK

This space for rent.