2 TB NVME for games.

Originally posted by Rumpelcrutchskin:

2 TB NVME for games.

i did the same but with a 4TB sata ssd, i'd say the third best upgrade i've done next to upgrading my GPU

fx 8350 -> i7-12700k
would have gone for an amd x3d chip but the 7800x3d was not out yet at that time but im still happy...
honorable mention are my first dedicated gpu a gtx 750 ti and hdd -> ssd...

Originally posted by Wichtelman:

fx 8350 -> i7-12700k
would have gone for an amd x3d chip but the 7800x3d was not out yet at that time but im still happy...
honorable mention was my first dedicated gpu a gtx 750 ti...

Wow what a humongous upgrade... so you lasted almost a decade with teh fx chip? Alderlake came out in 2021 no?

Going from a 60hz 1080p samsung to a 144hz 1440p asus monitor was mind blowing. Did that in 2014.

Having to buy top end gpus ever since just to run the thing was less fun…

AMD Athlon II X4 630 to i7 4790K back in 2014
Safe to say that this upgrade blew my mind away back then

Another one that I also think should be at the top.
HDD to SSD in 2016

Commodore 64 -> Amiga 500.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_GdJiEjSho&t
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9BltSvKMlQ&


First Voodoo card.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkzO2w6EqK4&



It's all been diminishing returns since.

Originally posted by peremptor:

Originally posted by Wichtelman:

fx 8350 -> i7-12700k
would have gone for an amd x3d chip but the 7800x3d was not out yet at that time but im still happy...
honorable mentions are my first dedicated gpu a gtx 750 ti and hdd -> ssd...

Wow what a humongous upgrade... so you lasted almost a decade with teh fx chip? Alderlake came out in 2021 no?

i waited as long as possible and even decided against the 13700k but wanted to upgrade before diablo 4 got released... in retrospect i should have bought an i7-47xxk second hand instead of the fx 8350 second hand to play diablo 3 but ive learned a lot about pc's and cost/performance since that time...

Switching to Linux.

For most people it's going to be switching from HDD to SSD.

Even nowadays you can make many old laptops and computers perfectly usable if you simply swap HDD with SSD. That says something.

Ssd and 32:9 uw monitor. Honorable mention: lossless scaling

SSD on my 2010 (?) laptop. It's actually still usable with windows 10. The SSD gave it so much life.

1) Buying an additionnal 2TB SSD Nvme.
2) Buying my first HDR screen, smaller than the previous regular screen I had but so much more " krispier " detail-wise.

Adding my first CD recorder. That was a real upgrade back in the day. Somewhere in the region of 250 euros (price then, not inflation adjusted) in the late 90s. It was almost a month's salary from my first "proper" job.

Originally posted by Dom:

For most people it's going to be switching from HDD to SSD.

Even nowadays you can make many old laptops and computers perfectly usable if you simply swap HDD with SSD. That says something.

Oh yeah. I upgraded my old core 2 duo pc with ssd for fun once, just to see how big of a difference it would make. Suddenly it became as fast as my main gaming pc (i7-5930k at the time) outside of games at least, and it actually booted significantly faster too…