Memorable Upgrades

Mine was going from 4MB to 8MB of RAM.
Was fucking psyched to be able to play Descent.

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going from voodoo2 to dual voodoo2

mine was getting a 450mb hdd. i thought i wont live long enough to fill it. boy was i wrong...

integrated graphics board with dual core E2200 to x6 1100t and sapphire 6790

probably going from pentium 4 to quad core.

intel celeron at 900 mhz 512MB ram to a core 2 duo 2GB ram

going from a 133mhz pentium to a P3

yeah buddy

also i was too poor back then for actual graphics cards so i made do with hand-me-downs from my mom's computer dork boyfriend. my first true graphics card was an ATI something or other a buddy gave me when he upgraded in the early 2000's.

>Was fucking psyched to be able to play Descent.
What happened after you beat it in two days?

Going from a Core i3-4005U to a Ryzen 7 1700, while simultaneously going from 4GB to 16GB of RAM.

I don't think you remember how hard that game was.

Pentium 4 1.6GHz to 4790k. I was always sheltered away from life so I was stuck with that p4 until 2014 when I finally escaped and got my own place and bought components and assembled it myself.

Going from 1.5TB to 3.5TB

i went from this to building my own little pc.

i got a phenom ii x2 and a 9800 gt.

good times.

>upgrade old 486 machine to 32M ram
>hopeful that i could run harry potter 1 on it since it required 32M ram
i learned that day that memory wasn't the most important factor

From AMD Athlon 2000+
To core2quad.

when I bought a graphics card to play ragnarok better, it was like a 64mb AGP card iirc. I cant remember if it actually helped, but it let me play other games too.

Going from some shitty no-name Celeron in a laptop to a custom built X58 PC with an i7 920, 6GB DDR3-1600, and a GTX260. Shit blew my goddamn mind.

386sx 25 to 486 dx 100

333 MHz celeron to 1.3 GHz Duron

Both of those CPUs could truck in their respective days.

Oh the memories...
My first real leap was going from a x386+cyrix addon chip (what a load of shite that thing was) to a Pentium 75 (as in Mhz). But that was nothing. Then I went from that Pentium 75 to a Pentium II 300. You know, the cartridge one? Best slot design ever! And that was bretty gud but still nothing, really. I then moved to a pentium socket 478 and stuck with that piece of shit for far too long. Replaced it with an AMD Brisbane Dual core 2.6 and I was impressed but about a year later every single past experience got BTFO by an i7-920.

It's been 7 years since that upgrade and I've made one minor cpu-related sidegrade (pic related) since then and I really don't see a point to moving forward. Even my chosen Ryzen is a slight improvement as far as single-thread is concerned, though I'll still probably go for one because fuck having to buy a new mobo with every new chip. I'm still scarred with how they completely aborted the awesome socket 1366 x58 platform.

MAH BOI.
Look for the fucking exit first you idiot! c:
Try playing on Hotshot instead of Trainee, nigger.

For me it was my first SSD. Can never ever go back. Or my GTX 650ti, straight leaped from the 9800GT

I cried my eyes out for having only 8mb of ram instead of 16.

Similar to yours. Upgraded the Packard Bell Legend 2000 from 4MB to 8MB just to play Doom.

Going from a laptop with two gigabytes of RAM and a Pentium Dual Core to a desktop with a 2500k, 16 gigabytes of RAM and a 6850.

I love you man... No hobbit.
I was fucking looking for that game forever and I could NOT remember its name.
Ohhh the memories, I was listening to my first metal songs back in 2000 when playing the demo of this game over and over again.
My fresh rig in 2000 was a pIII at 667MHz, 32MB ram, 9GB hdd and a simple 3dfx card with 7.8MB vram.
I had this build until 2006.

I urge you to go find that torrent of the old GOG versions of Descent 1-3, and learn how to install dxx-rebirth.
Either that or play the Playstation version if you want the old "acceptable" framerates.

Going from an S3 Virge to a Voodoo 1 card.
The first one convinced me that 3D acceleration was about sacrifice, choosing between having nice 16bit colors at 320x240, or 8bit colors with no acceleration at 640x480 (because at 640x480 accelerated, the frame rate was absolutely horrible and the card failed to load most textures as it only had 2MB of VRAM).
Then Voodoo 1 taught me that i just can crank all up if you have a good video card.

XT 8088 to 486 SX 33. Blew my fucking mind away

Going from a 6950 to a 480.
DOOM went from 4 FPS on the main menu to like 90 in-game maxed out at 1440p.

Going from windows 10 to linux mint

check it mein negers. in hindsight, i shouldve taken a shot of the back of the box but meh. Fuckin loved this game when it came out. Freespace 2 was even better.

I had a similar experience when i went from an HD 3870 to a GTX 460. When the 460 self destructed, the quick replacement $40 HD 7770 was a disappointing sidegrade, but the $140 RX 480 I bought six months later made me nut for weeks.

Switching from a 512MB ram Celeron to Pentium dual core 2GHz with 2GB ram, I guess.

>it's

>He didn't have a LAN to play DM with 8 players, co-op with 4, or make his own levels.

scrub

Going from 386 sx20 with math co-processor to a 486 dx2x66

first, going from a 5gb internal hdd, to a 20gb external usb2

then going from 5gb inturnal (20gb broke) to 120gb exturnal

then going from

p2 333 with 187mb ram~ and some 32mb thing

p4 3.2 ht with 1gb of ram and a 6800 ultra

then going from p4 3.2 with 3gb of ram and a 6800 ultra
to
phenom X4 955 be with same hardware
then the upgrade to the 5770 1gb
then the upgrade to 8gb of ram, 120gb ssd and win7
my gpu upgrade was bottlenecked by the cpu more often then not so I cant count it

from there getting a 4tb hdd

then from that system that eventually had 16gb ddr2 and 12tb of hdds to

ryzen 1700 32gb of ram, a 8tb drive, a 4tb drive and a 512gb nvme ssd

with how I upgrade ill probably be another massive leap with it happens.

>187mb ram~

I had a 486-SX33 and played through Diablo on it.

Upgraded it to a DX66 and it was much better.

I dont even fucking know how either... that motherboard was a piece of shit

Prob 128 + 64 - reserved.

Intel pentium 166MHz to AMD Athlon 1GHz. I could finally play Diablo 2 Lord of Destruction.

probably 192M minus some hardware reserved

i went from a GeForce2 MX 200 PCI 32M to a GeForce 7600GT PCI-E 256M

-- oh, and yea, i totally missed AGP
had no money during the time AGP was king, and by the time i could afford anything new, it was 2006 and PCI-E had taken over

This

Going from a 6600gt to a 8800gt felt like a pretty big leap.
More recently I went from a hd7850 to a gtx1060, that was pretty neat.
Going from my old athlon x2 to a 4670k was pretty big too.
My first ssd was amazing.

I remember going from a samsung tn monitor with 1 out of 3 broken backlights to a dell ips, I never realized how shit the colors on my old monitor were.

When I got my first dedicated graphics card rather than relying on the internal one on the motherboard

core2duo to 6700k
it was my first time putting together a compooper too

I'm poor and don't upgrade often but the most notable upgrades were going from dial-up to broadband (cable). That was such a rush. I used to have to wait 20 minutes to download a 6MB song on Limewire. I immediately started downloading WoW and I hated it and never played it again.

Also the first GPU I got and I was done with integrated graphics. Wasn't even a good card, just a Powercolor Radeon HD 5570. Cost $50 new and enabled me to play so many games. Rarely at or above 60fps, I guess thats why I don't identify with the PC master race shit.

pc master race is a meme. its all about the soul you have. you can still rock even a GPU from 2010 or so and play a million good games on it

Going from a 10 year old Intel HD Family integrated card and 2GB of RAM to Nvidia 1050ti and 8GB of RAM. I remember I was able to make GTA IV look like a PS1 game and it would run at 20 fps. Was enough for me to finish it. Now I can play it at 60fps with everything maxed out. Nothing was more satisfying than being able to properly play that poorly optimized piece of shit.

going from 40mhz i486 with 8mb ram and 202mb hdd to pentium 4 with 512mb ram, 60gb hdd and a SOUND CARD.

Freespace 2 is the shit. I wish they made a 3rd one.

Going from a Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 to an LG G3
Holy shit the difference in everything

I upgraded from a Pentium 120MHz to a Duron 800MHz, shit was so cash

what's the game running in the background ?

I got DSL connection a bit late, so probably that. I did have ISDN before so it wasn't THAT bad

>using old hand me down desktop that use to be my parents for work/research
>Dad takes me to a pc trade show
>tons of vendors, I dunno wtf is going on but play vidya sometimes since quake2 multi-player is amazing
>somehow get convinced that I need a voodoo banshee
>Dad buys video card for me
>take it home, drop it into pc
>"holy shit this improves quake2 frames sooo much"
>brother comes home from college after some months and asks why I'm still using software renderer instead of hardware with the video card
>brother changes settings for me and game I've been spending my life on changes drastically before my eyes

And now I never play a game without spending time reviewing settings

Going from a Willamette P4 to an Athlon 64 X2, and a bit later replacing the integrated ATI shitshow with an 8600GT. Holy shit was it fast.

This.

I had the same experience with Quake 2 when I got my first 3D accelerator card kek. It was weird how the colors changed compared to the software renderer, though.
Man.. that game will always have a place in my heart. I played it on a competitive level for over 10 years and even met my first long term gf on Quakenet.

Getting a Riva TNT2 card, I tried every 3D demo I could get my hands on

Athlon x2 - HD 2400 graphics

i5 3570k - HD 7870

Also 250 GB HDD slow as hell
to 128 GB Samsung SSD

Boot time from 120 sec to 5 sec

P2-333 Win2k to P4 2.0 with a Geforce 3 on XP.

Captain claw
go to the claw reculse, torrent it with the cd crack and enjoy the best win9x platformer
works with wine

i386, i486, K-6, Core2 E6400, i7 920
Riva TNT2, first powerful GPU
Win3.11->Windows 95->XP. Linux 2.4->2.6.
FAT32 to ext3
2400 baud to 9600 baud to 64kbit ISDN
IPX to TCP/IP
First SSD
Symbian to Android

Do you still watch demos? I love to get drunk/stoned and watch demos for hours every now and then. I'd say my favourite groups are Still and Conspiracy

1,000kb/s to 100mb/s
60hz to 144hz
Integrated GPU to Dedicated GPU
160GB to 1TB

Going from a virus ridden 166mhz Pentium MMX pc to a Pentium II 400 w/ a voodoo2 as babby's first graphics card
holy fucking shit it was like dumping an ugly, overweight and naggy girlfriend for a supermodel porn star

Celeron D 331 to Pentium Dual-Core E5500.
4GB to 8GB.
GT 630 to GTX 750Ti.
Windows 8 to Windows 8.1

adding a 3d accelerator and playing WC3 in svga.

>holy fucking shit it was like dumping an ugly, overweight and naggy girlfriend for a supermodel porn star
lmao this is exactly how a upgrade feels

Going from CGA to EGA.

>P2 400 with a voodoo2

Kek I had the exact same configuration. That PC went to SOO MANY lanparties and won me tons of prizes in Quake 2 tournaments. Seriously I went to big lanparties all over Germany at least 3 times a month.

ati 4550 -> gt730

slowly upgrading a workstation

what would be the best 45nm 65tdp lga 775 cpu to use? currently running c2d e8400

Going from Windows 7 to Antergos

gtx 260 to 1070

I went from monochrome (yes, there were monochrome graphics cards. mine was from Hercules) to VGA. Holy crap there were COLORS all of a sudden

Laptop with Pentium D T2300 1.6Ghz, Intel integrated 945GM, 2GB RAM with an 120GB hard drive to an i5-2500, HD6870, 8GB RAM, and 500GB hard drive. It was pure glory to play everything at 60FPS with good resolutions and settings.

Going from a 486SX 25 to a Pentium 66

going from asus eee pc 901 to alienware m11xr3

>he fell for the alienware maymay

Never got nothing because I was poor, so I could only go to a cyber café.
So let's say shitty dual core Pentium to a free MBP I got back in 2012 with a dual core i5 and 256mb low end mobile Nvidia GPU with 2GB, and then two or three years after that to an i5-4460+750ti+8GB, then one and a half year ago to 16GB of RAM (God, I noticed some improvement running multiple games at once and even some VM) and then almost a year ago to 1060 6GB.
I don't plan to upgrade until Ryzen 2, maybe when 2+ releases. I'll probably upgrade the GPU to a second handed 1080ti next year or the following one, after Volta releases all his cards for sure.

Baby its time to move on

Look on craigslist, you can usually find one or two generations previous prebuilts that have solid i5's or i7's.

128 or 256 (don't remember) ram to 2GB, I had a game that took like 2 minutes full to load and afterwards it took 2 seconds

I've played Mechwarrior 1 on a 8088 XT. Literally 1 or 2 frames per second. I was a huge Battletech fan as a kid so I still played it like that.
The start of a mission was always just pointing the mech in the general direction of the mission area, setting it to full speed and waiting for half an hour. I've also played Monkey Island 1 in SUPER SLOW MOTION on that PC.
Bought a 486 SX 33 with ALL of my first communion money (1600 DM) when I was 9 and never looked back.

Man it was easy to get lost in that game though, being 6 axis. And yeah on Hotshot mode, AI became T-1000 level.

again
I remember that the sound of a PPC firing over the PC Speaker was completely over before the blue triangle appeared on the screen. Showing the graphics that we have nowadays and the framerates they run at would have completely blown my mind as a kid.

Got an Ensoniq Soundscape wavetable synth card and it made the MIDI score to that game sound amazing. I think this was back in 1994 or so.

Also

>that catchy music that played through the pc speaker when you went to the bar

The young ones wouldn't understand how nice that was.

Couldn't find the actual PC Speaker version

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Going from 1mb dsl to 100mb fiber. No longer needed to leave pc overnight to download movies or games and no more FUCKING random dc's from loosing connection.

when I OCd my pentium cpu from 133MHz to 200MHz

Going from a Pentium 4 to a 6700K.

Was insane.

Getting a 100 MM hard drive. I could fit all my games on it and thought I would never have to delete anything ever again.

M8 I had something called "DSL light" in rural Germany because the cables weren't good enough for the full speed. Literally got 384Kbps for the fucking full price. I went straight to 50Mbps from that when they finally got fiber glass cable in here and was fucking blown away and now we're talking Gbps speeds.. We've come a long way

Oh yeah my first OC experience blew me away.

>Holy shit I can run this faster than it's supposed to be?

Also RAM timings.