Upgraded Lately?
Monday, April 21, 2003 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Am I the only one who's not upgraded their computer recently? In the good old days(TM) it seems like computer junkies like myself were upgrading their computers at least every year, if not more often. Now I sit with my P3-1Ghz machine and a old ThinkPad T20 laptop.
I think I'm going to upgrade my laptop this year to the new IBM Thinkpad T40 which has a 7 hour battery life. But it's still weird to go this long without upgrading. Anyone else finding themselves in the same situation?
I think I'm going to upgrade my laptop this year to the new IBM Thinkpad T40 which has a 7 hour battery life. But it's still weird to go this long without upgrading. Anyone else finding themselves in the same situation?
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Teikoshen
Reply #22 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 3:13 PM
Reply #22 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 3:13 PM
i usually upgrade my pc part by part, from 1998 - 2003,
started with a AMDk6-2 that gives me blue screen of death twice a day.. (was a heating problem)
went to a celeron, then to a AMD 1ghz, and now finally AMD1700XP
these upgrades were all done in 1998-early2002. but since mid 2002 - today, i haven't done any serious upgrades. only last upgrade that i did was bought the ATI radeon 9700 pro (to play C&C generals
) everything else in my computer seems to have stalled..
now i can't foresee myself upgrading any parts (except for my sound card - sblive) to a audigy2 platinum. but my only reason for this upgrade is simply to have the finest part avaliable in the market. otherwise, for performance sake, the good old sblive (not 5.1) is good enough for all mp3 music, game playing. and such.
i would agree with most guys here.. it seems that we've come to a stall for the average user. Even for gammers. there are only few good outstanding games coming out soon. (doom3) that really requires a system more then 2ghz and a 128mb video card. and those games won't come out till like end of this year or so..
started with a AMDk6-2 that gives me blue screen of death twice a day.. (was a heating problem)
went to a celeron, then to a AMD 1ghz, and now finally AMD1700XP
these upgrades were all done in 1998-early2002. but since mid 2002 - today, i haven't done any serious upgrades. only last upgrade that i did was bought the ATI radeon 9700 pro (to play C&C generals
) everything else in my computer seems to have stalled.. now i can't foresee myself upgrading any parts (except for my sound card - sblive) to a audigy2 platinum. but my only reason for this upgrade is simply to have the finest part avaliable in the market. otherwise, for performance sake, the good old sblive (not 5.1) is good enough for all mp3 music, game playing. and such.
i would agree with most guys here.. it seems that we've come to a stall for the average user. Even for gammers. there are only few good outstanding games coming out soon. (doom3) that really requires a system more then 2ghz and a 128mb video card. and those games won't come out till like end of this year or so..
PurrBall
Reply #23 Thursday, April 24, 2003 9:32 AM
Reply #23 Thursday, April 24, 2003 9:32 AM
Mine is a Gateway P3 500. Thinking about getting a new video card that's 128 mb. 
SuperheroCanadian
Reply #24 Thursday, April 24, 2003 11:08 PM
Reply #24 Thursday, April 24, 2003 11:08 PM
thx to stark i upgraded from my laptop which was a dell inspiron 7500, to a new desktop,
amd 1900xp
512 ram
radeon 7500 AIW
witha soyo dragon MB
nothing thats like screaming fast but much better than what i had
amd 1900xp
512 ram
radeon 7500 AIW
witha soyo dragon MB
nothing thats like screaming fast but much better than what i had
Mark Jaquith
Reply #25 Friday, April 25, 2003 3:55 AM
Reply #25 Friday, April 25, 2003 3:55 AM
2 years ago I bought a laptop when I moved away for college:
[ Dell Inspiron 8000
[ Pentium III @ 1GHz
[ 512 MB RAM
[ 30 GB Hard Drive
[ 32MB GeForce2Go AGP Graphics with video out
[ DVD
[ CD/RW
[ Firewire/USB/ethernet/modem/infared
Honestly, there is not much this can't do. Sure, the latest cutting edge 3-D games aren't going to fly, but it can run just about anything at 800x600. Besides DVD writers, there really hasn't been a killer upgrade to make me feel like I'm in the computing stone age. It does everything I want, fast enough for my liking. And even if I wanted more disk space or wanted to add a DVD burner... the firewire port allows for that added functionality. The only real upgrades I've made are to the OS (from Windows 2000 to Windows XP Home and then to Windows XP Professional). With the latest nVidia Detonator drivers, and Win XP, it runs better now than it did when I got it!
[ Dell Inspiron 8000
[ Pentium III @ 1GHz
[ 512 MB RAM
[ 30 GB Hard Drive
[ 32MB GeForce2Go AGP Graphics with video out
[ DVD
[ CD/RW
[ Firewire/USB/ethernet/modem/infared
Honestly, there is not much this can't do. Sure, the latest cutting edge 3-D games aren't going to fly, but it can run just about anything at 800x600. Besides DVD writers, there really hasn't been a killer upgrade to make me feel like I'm in the computing stone age. It does everything I want, fast enough for my liking. And even if I wanted more disk space or wanted to add a DVD burner... the firewire port allows for that added functionality. The only real upgrades I've made are to the OS (from Windows 2000 to Windows XP Home and then to Windows XP Professional). With the latest nVidia Detonator drivers, and Win XP, it runs better now than it did when I got it!
PurrBall
Reply #26 Friday, April 25, 2003 8:45 AM
Reply #26 Friday, April 25, 2003 8:45 AM
We sold an old Gateway that was Intel 60mhz computer in 2001, it was running perfecly. We had already got a new computer in '99, but had trouble selling the other one. We got the new computer for one reason. There was indeed one problem with the old one. Nothing was compatible anymore!! 
Water Boy 87 avit
Reply #27 Sunday, April 27, 2003 5:20 AM
Reply #27 Sunday, April 27, 2003 5:20 AM
Ive had my win 98 233mhz for five years now with 128mb poor 4mb graphics card and 6gb hardrive ram which is now awfully slow so ive spend about a grand on a custome made pc running two 3.0ghz p4's, 1gig ddr ram, geforce fx, two 120gb hardrives, dvd-rw, and a lot of the usual software win xp etc. 
TheD2JBug
Reply #28 Monday, April 28, 2003 8:37 AM
Reply #28 Monday, April 28, 2003 8:37 AM
Well come to think of it I did . As a treat for my new job and thanks to a no intrest loan from said job I upgraded my PC twice in 3 months. I started with a Celeron 800 w/256 MB of PC133 on a Asus TUV4x and a Radeon old school and now I have a Athlon XP 2000+ with a GB of PC2700 DDR and a 128 MB Radeon 9500 Pro on an Asus A7v-333X.
The thing works like a dream
I've done my upgrades so I don't have to worry about upgrading this PC for awhile , and I'm happy with the result
The thing works like a dream
I've done my upgrades so I don't have to worry about upgrading this PC for awhile , and I'm happy with the result
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Reply #21 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 2:53 PM
My first laptop that I got in December is P4-2GHz and I really don't see me upgrading it until it turns out that something like GalCiv III won't play smoothly on it.