Upgradaholics Anonymous. All are welcome, come as you are...

[Just Learnin']

Two four gigabyte kits of G.SKILL F2-8500CL5D-4GBPK PC2-8500 4GB 2X2GB DDR2-1066 CL5-5-5-15

[Dave3d]

Another WD AAKS 640.
Belkin Soho F1DS104L VGA and USB 4 Port In/Out KVM Switch (Black)
2 x 20' cat5e.

[Dave3d]

WD 300gb Velociraptor.
Replaced my slow-a$$-slow WD 160 drive (OS) with this.
Nice to have a fast OS drive again (gave up the Raptor 36 to the wifes/office/VM machine long ago).

5 minutes to Image the OS drive.
10 minutes to disconnect old drive (and find which of the 3 hdd's was the OS one) and connect new drive and create Primary partition/format it.
5 minutes to restore image.

20 total minutes of downtime.

THAT, my friends, is why I love ghost/tbu backup and gdisk.



Oh yeah, is a new Zune considered an upgrade?
Since it is 30gb, and I can actually USE the thing, over my 4gb Ipod, I say HECK YES it is an upgrade.

[newman]

You know you are an addict when.... you're responding to threads like this at 1.30am!

1. We admitted we were powerless over computers - that our lives had become unmanageable (unless we used a PDA).
2. Came to believe that a more powerful CPU could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of the Internet as we understood IT.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of our components.
5. Admitted to msn, to ourselves, and to another server somewhere the exact nature of our componentry.
6. We're entirely ready to have all these defective parts upgraded.
7. Humbly asked the Internet to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all computers we had harmed, and became willing to make upgrades to them all.
9. Made direct upgrades to such computers wherever possible, except when to do so would deny us playing BF2 or Doom online.
10. Continued to take personal inventory of our components and when they were out of date promptly upgraded them.
11. Sought through phosphor screens and online chat to improve our conscious contact with the Internet, as we understood IT, praying only for faster CPU cycles and a sufficiently powerful PSU to carry that out.
12. Having had a computational awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to lower specced people, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Source: Me in another guise, on another forum

[SaKnom]

Its a well known fact that consoles are sold with loss. They hope to compensate for it by selling games. In a way this is more fair, because you pay less if you use the thing less.
Why do you think printers are so cheap? Because the ink is so expensive

[Dave3d]

Man, it has been boring around here recently for upgrades.
Since almost every game now works great on 2 year old machines (read: stupid console game ports), not much reason to upgrade.

But, I did get the following:
Corsair Cooling Hydro Series H50
5 x Straight to Right angle sata 2 cables (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16812123158)
LTB Q-BEAN-UB Wireless Headphone (now I have 2, but one power button just broke last week)
SmartDisk FDUSB-B2 USB External Floppy Disk Drive
Belkin SOHO 4-Port KVM Switch (VGA, PS/2-USB)

[BeeHay]

500GB Seagate
joeMans Zalman Reserator 1

[Dave3d]

Well, found out the I didnt fit in the VW Thing (my knees hit the steering wheel, even when driving), so decided to get the computer.


UBISOFT Gift Game - R.U.S.E. (free)
NVIDIA Free Just Cause 2 + Mafia II Coupon (free)
CORSAIR Hydro H70 CWCH70 120mm High Performance CPU Cooler
Western Digital Caviar Black WD2002FAEX 2TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5"
Intel Core i7-990X Extreme Edition Nehalem 3.46GHz LGA 1366 130W Six-Core
ASUS Rampage III Formula LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0
EVGA 015-P3-1580-AR GeForce GTX 580 (Fermi)
Western Digital VelociRaptor WD6000HLHX 600GB 10000 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5"
CoolerMaster HAF X case
CORSAIR Professional Series AX1200 1200W

There is no going back now.