Survey Results - Do you customise or upgrade your computer(s)?

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Re: At home the last whole PC I purchased was a Packard Bell 486 DX-33

Mycroft Holmes3-Dec-12 16:29

Mycroft Holmes

3-Dec-12 16:29

Are you using the same Packard Bell box?

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Re: At home the last whole PC I purchased was a Packard Bell 486 DX-33

John M. Drescher4-Dec-12 2:49

John M. Drescher

4-Dec-12 2:49

No. There were parts from the Packard Bell in the first few Pentium 1 systems however they certianly have not made it to today. There are no parts in either of my desktops that are from the Packard Bell. However the case in my main windows box is over a decade old. That is by far the oldest part in either machine.

John

I used to just buy a new computer

Slacker0073-Dec-12 0:52

Slacker007

3-Dec-12 0:52

every couple of years. Now that I am a tramp, things will be different. No more squandering my riches on prostitutes and cheap wine.

Re: I used to just buy a new computer

Kumar S.R.Viswamitra4-Dec-12 1:24

Kumar S.R.Viswamitra

4-Dec-12 1:24

it will b beter that you purchase computers parts differently and assemble them . It will cost you less and quite give you good performance. Smile | :)

Memory

Aniruddha Loya3-Dec-12 0:18

Aniruddha Loya

3-Dec-12 0:18

Human or Machine... its all about upgrading their memory!!

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Always drives, never memory

Patje3-Dec-12 0:01

Patje

3-Dec-12 0:01

In every PC I bought since 1994 I made sure it contained enough memory. When the standard was 2MB, I bought 4MB. When the standard was 32MB, I bought 96MB. When the standard was 128MB, I bought 512MB. My latest PC (now 5 years old), has 4GB (of which it can only use 3.2GB, damned).

But, in every PC, without exception, I had to add additional drives.
Nowadays, this is super-easy with USB drives and network drives.

My advise to friends and family was always: if you have to choose, go for more memory instead of a faster cpu.

Enjoy life, this is not a rehearsal !!!

Re: Always drives, never memory

Nelek3-Dec-12 11:05

Nelek

3-Dec-12 11:05

I agree with you with a difference point.

Nowadays I would not go for a faster CPU, but I would buy a SSD as system drive and the one that comes with the computer as second one for data. That does make a difference.

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Re: Always drives, never memory

Blake Miller4-Dec-12 8:32

Blake Miller

4-Dec-12 8:32

I am with you there - unless you have SOOO much memory you don't use any virtual.

If you are routinely generating page faults in the millions, then add more RAM or get the SSD and see your performance increase from that.

I need a 32 bit unsigned value just to hold the number of coding WTF I see in a day …

What about aerodynamic?

Ingo2-Dec-12 23:22

Ingo

2-Dec-12 23:22

I miss the improvement of aerodynamics to decrease the cd-value. Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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Racing stripes

Christiaan Rakowski2-Dec-12 20:51

Christiaan Rakowski

2-Dec-12 20:51

Racing "Stripes" is a bit off, but close enough. I actually just add stickers for the different tech I worked with on that machine. My current laptop only has stickers for Arduino so far, but that's because I haven't gotten any stickers for Android yet.

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When XML does not appear to solve it, you are not using enough XML!

Re: Racing stripes

Blake Miller4-Dec-12 8:24

Blake Miller

4-Dec-12 8:24

They missed out on 'duct' tape.

I broke open my old HP Server last night because the damn release was not working, now the 'clamshell-easy-open' case is held together with duct tape.

I need a 32 bit unsigned value just to hold the number of coding WTF I see in a day …

Assuming you don't max the memory on purchase

Mycroft Holmes2-Dec-12 20:51

Mycroft Holmes

2-Dec-12 20:51

I think most of us max the memory on the initial purchase if we can afford it. Drive and memory are just a consumables, neither of which I would consider an upgrade.

I have pretty flashy blue lights on the tower so I don't need fancy racing stripes! You think I'm joking, Acer have a booster/overdrive button, the fan goes apeshit and blue light gets all excited and flashes madly. It sounds like a landing zone, I pushed it once, never again!

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH

Re: Assuming you don't max the memory on purchase

cjb1102-Dec-12 21:12

cjb110

2-Dec-12 21:12

In the past that was always a bad thing to do, memory prices fluctuated a lot, the price of upgrades didn't, and were always higher than buying it later.

Now a days, you have to check that in the drive to make laptops all the more breakable, they've not soldered the damn stuff on.

Re: Assuming you don't max the memory on purchase

Blake Miller4-Dec-12 8:25

Blake Miller

4-Dec-12 8:25

A revolving red light with a klaxon would be even more amusing!

I need a 32 bit unsigned value just to hold the number of coding WTF I see in a day …

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Option	Votes	%
I overclock and/or upgrade the CPU	231	24.63
I upgrade the memory	603	64.29
I upgrade the mainboard	230	24.52
I upgrade the graphics	353	37.63
I add, upgrade or replace the drives	489	52.13
I upgrade the cooling	157	16.74
I add racing stripes	47	5.01
I don't upgrade my machines	206	21.96
Other	47	5.01
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