Comments on: Why the cheap PC upgrade path is dead… http://blog.spikedeffect.com/2008/04/23/the-cheap-pc-upgrade-path-is-dead/ SpikedEffect's views, opinions, comments on life, technology, the internet, programming and more... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:10:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Tech News http://blog.spikedeffect.com/2008/04/23/the-cheap-pc-upgrade-path-is-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-725 Tech News Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:06:00 +0000 http://blog.spikedeffect.com/?p=179#comment-725 My brother in law would be amazed this website. We were not too long ago discussing about this. lol My brother in law would be amazed this website. We were not too long ago discussing about this. lol

]]> By: mal http://blog.spikedeffect.com/2008/04/23/the-cheap-pc-upgrade-path-is-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-591 mal Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:03:15 +0000 http://blog.spikedeffect.com/?p=179#comment-591 Computers are a luxury item. They exist to soak up all that expendable income. If you could just get away with spending £200 every 3 years to update it, would they really be fulfilling their mandate? Of course not. Computers are a luxury item. They exist to soak up all that expendable income. If you could just get away with spending £200 every 3 years to update it, would they really be fulfilling their mandate? Of course not.

]]> By: iain http://blog.spikedeffect.com/2008/04/23/the-cheap-pc-upgrade-path-is-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-585 iain Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:49:09 +0000 http://blog.spikedeffect.com/?p=179#comment-585 aaah you're obviously too young to remember the shift to ddr/agp. ;) if you wanted to go the economy route you can get some pretty decent economy choices (eg asrock boards, low-end amd dual-cores), then that can be a platform to continue your cheap upgrade path. imho you only need the 4gb if you go with vista, which to be honest i wouldn't recommend for graphics/gaming anyway so you should only need the 2gb either way. :) aaah you’re obviously too young to remember the shift to ddr/agp. ;)

if you wanted to go the economy route you can get some pretty decent economy choices (eg asrock boards, low-end amd dual-cores), then that can be a platform to continue your cheap upgrade path.

imho you only need the 4gb if you go with vista, which to be honest i wouldn’t recommend for graphics/gaming anyway so you should only need the 2gb either way. :)

]]> By: Jonathan http://blog.spikedeffect.com/2008/04/23/the-cheap-pc-upgrade-path-is-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-584 Jonathan Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:58:44 +0000 http://blog.spikedeffect.com/?p=179#comment-584 This is a problem all us tech savvy people face. Your right, you are better off starting off from scratch. Get yourself a nice quad core, and motherboard with dual or tripple SLI for 'future proofing'. Maybe a mid range Crysis ready Nvidia 8800. Good luck mate This is a problem all us tech savvy people face. Your right, you are better off starting off from scratch. Get yourself a nice quad core, and motherboard with dual or tripple SLI for ‘future proofing’. Maybe a mid range Crysis ready Nvidia 8800. Good luck mate

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