If only I was rich :o

If anyone needs cheering up:

If I was rich, I'd do things like:

Radeon HD 6990 quad crossfire in a workstation with two hexacore Intel Xeons, and 32 GB of RAM, + 1 TB of SSD space. I don't want to even know how much that would cost, lol.

the howling wolves said:

doctoral said:

i like to upgrade my computer but i can't, if i was rich the first thing i would spend money on is a maxed out computer. Upgrading my computer is like an addiction to me, an addiction i can't afford

as soon as you are rich enough to buy one there will always be something coming out that is bigger and faster. you will always be chasing the carrot.

just be thankful that yours is working and you are in good health.
Thw

PC upgrading is like a Sea no matter how much you throw in it.. it'll not fill i can understand your pain of being not able to upgrade as many of us go through same problem.. but what i noticed people who continuously upgrade there PC's (especially gamers) for better tech are sometimes more upset than us sometimes hehe we have term in our language "Keerra" which means an Ant that crawls inside your body who disturbs you all day and night and wont stop untill you upgrade your PC.

seavixen32 said:

Computer upgrades are a bit like marriage - you wonder why you do it and your pockets are always empty!

Haha you could also say a computer is really like a women as they are so expensive dont get me wrong i love compuers to the max but also i love women :P

i will come clean my custom computer cost me just under "£200 uk and the motherboard and cpu bundle was £95 my graphics cars was £45 from CEX lol! lucky it hadn't been un-boxed before as the void labels where NOT broken

My corsair ram was also from CEX and cost me £15

my case and everything else was bought from maplins electronics

I don't advise that anybody try to keep up....and I don't advise buying top of the line either.

My recommendations are to buy a generation or two back....and get something reasonably affordable. Then use it for 2-3 years, then replace it. The money you save on not buying the top end hardware will end up paying for the new computer.

I bought my current box in July of 2009, it's a Q9550 quad core (at the time, the original Core i7 was top dog). Now, over 2 years later, it's still quite a powerful machine. The only thing I have changed is my video card. When I bought the box in 2009, I bought an oldish nvidia 9800GTX+ which i always intended to replace. But I didn't actually have a need for the past 2 years. With BF3 coming out, I just bought an Nvidia GTX 570. I was able to play the Beta on high settings no problem. My CPU didn't break a sweat. I don't see any reason to believe this machine won't continue to be fast for at least 1 more year.

Sure, there are faster machines out there, but I don't really do anything which requires more speed. I can already encode video fast, I can rip DVD's in just under 8 minutes, I can run virtual machines, I can play the latest games, it just works for me. Of course, as a gamer, I play on a single monitor with 1920x1080....so I'm not the be-all end-all poster child either. Your needs and expectations will differ from mine. Staying on a machine might not work for everybody...but it can probably work for many.