i built mine in august 2010, added/replaced few things in 2011/12 and since then its been the same. Not planning to change anything in the near future, even though i would love to upgrade my GPU, but sadly the only possible upgrade would cost 3000 EUROs...

Just upgraded my work/gaming PC. The last one lasted about 4 years, but what do you expect from a laptop

parrottmath

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Just upgraded my work/gaming PC. The last one lasted about 4 years, but what do you expect from a laptop

I haven't looked into it in a very long time, but you can play decent games on a laptop without upgrading the graphics card and RAM nowadays, or are out of the box, middle of the road, laptops sufficient?

Borg999

reply 18

Quoting parrottmath,

reply 17

Just upgraded my work/gaming PC. The last one lasted about 4 years, but what do you expect from a laptop

I haven't looked into it in a very long time, but you can play decent games on a laptop without upgrading the graphics card and RAM nowadays, or are out of the box, middle of the road, laptops sufficient?

They are, but since I work and game on that PC daily it has taken a beating. Currently it is suffering from a cooling problems and lowers the performance on a lot of games. It still works well for many of the games I play, but it just doesn't have the staying power it once did.

The upgrade is mostly for my other home PC which has been around for about 9+ years. But when I finally convinced the wife to upgrade that computer, I might as well make it a better gaming computer

If I can figure out a cheap and sure way to keep my laptop cool, I could still run many of the games that are coming out (at medium / low settings)

you can replace Ram on most of the Laptops - even Hardrives if needed - however its a bit more expensive then a Desktop Version.

Graphic Cards and CPU are permanently attached to the Mainboard of a Laptop so no replacement here - however for most of the Games a Laptop will work well in medium or high Settings ( if you dont buy the average Crap from your local Electronic Superstore )

btT : I replace my Hardware every 3 Years ,but only in Parts recently i bought a FX8350 and a Radeon 280x - the older Parts will find a new Home in Computers of my Family and Friends

 @ Parrot - look for Cooling Pads - Thermaltake is building them among others

I used to build a bleeding edge box every 6 months just to build it, but lifestyle changes and other time constraints have resulted in not starting any new games in almost 6 years.

AN8 SLI-32 Deluxe

AMD Phenom(tm)II X6 Core Processor 3.00GHz

8.00 Gigabyte Ram

(2X) Western Digital Raptor 10,000 RPM 76gig (RAID-0)

(2X) GTX 8800 Graphics Cards (Still amazing benchmarks)

Windows 7 64 Bit Ultimate

don't know about gaming pc as i only have 1 pc.. fairly modest thing.... 7 years old i think... e6750. think i'm on my 3rd gfx card (or is it 4th? they keep dying on me ).. replaced and added more ram. had to get a new psu too... and replaced vista with fresh install of win 7 a few years back. had a new keyboard (logitech solar) and has gone through a bunch of mice..

the dvd drive (not that i use it much) bites. literally. open it and it'll close pretty much before you can put the disc in .. never even used all those sd card/etc port thingys they put in the front. the company i bought it from has long since gone bust (might have been resurrected elsewhere)

mb is a p5n32e sli... except i've never sli-ed....

heck... the pcie on the mb is a 1.1...

My laptop is 2 years old, but it wasnt really "top of the line" from the get go. It is now becoming hard to play newer games.

My last rig was a 3 year old i5 quad core 3 gig system with 6 gigs of ram, and a gforce 250gt 2 gig video card. It is still running. I just dont have it any more. It was handed down to my son. Otherwise i probably would still be using it, and upgrading it. The funny thing is my laptop has almost exactly the same specs as my old desktop. Except a has crappy intel GPU.

The rig i built before lasted me almost 6 years before it became beyond obsolete.

My old rig:

Core duo E6550

GTX 460

4gb ram

Still playable after 5-6y

I'm at 5 years, I've added some ram and a new video card, but that's it.  Oh, and went form windows V to 7.  Was a cheap Dell and still plays new games fine.

I got my laptop for going to college overseas (so a desktop was out of the question, unfortunately) way back in the good old days of Feb' 2011 


The only good thing I can say about it is that I got it for a great price. Cheap even for what it was.

It's an Acer Aspire 5552G-5828

AMD Phenom II X4 N930
15.6 monitor
ATI Mobility Radeon DH 5650
6 GB DDR3
500 GB Hard drive



I keep thinking I'd like to upgrade but I like to be wise with my money so I'll probably keep using it until either it dies or a game comes out that I rally want and literally can't play. (like less than 15 fps with all settings as low as possible)

Depends on the laptop.  Some allow for replacement of that stuff.

My gaming rig I built in 2009, let's see if I can remember most of the specs:

Core 2 Duo 3.0 GHz

4GB RAM

2x nVidia Gforce 8800GTS 512MB

EVGA MoBo using nVidia 790i Ultra SLI chipset

Win 7 64-bit

Bout all I can remember... although anything else was run of the mill stuff, anyway.  Course, earlier this year one of my vid cards fried.  Got lucky and managed to get my hands on a new laptop for nothin', so just switched over to that for now until I can afford to upgrade my main.  It's meant as a workhorse computer (ie, not gaming), but seems to be doing fine by me for now.  But to be honest, most of the stuff that's coming out now a days that actually tests the limits of a computer have been holding no interest to me.....

HP EliteBook 8570w

i7-3630QM 2.4 GHz

16GB RAM

nVidia Quadro K1000M

500GB Hybrid Hard Drive

Win 7 64-bit

Just built one on Monday, but the laptop before that was my college laptop.now that I've got a desktop, it'll only be used as a secondary.

My PC is like that wooden pot still in the Guyana rum distillery - parts of the still get replaced all the time, and the still lasted for centuries.

I upgrade like that from 1995, and while none of the original components remain, there is a continuous chain. Recently, the cycle has slowed a lot, but I am on 

Core i5 3570K @ 4,4GHz

MSI GTX 670 with 4GB of VRAM (best investment, since I can enjoy extreme texture quality even on games designed for the newest gen consoles)

8GB of 2100HZ RAM downclocked to 1600HZ (for lower latencies)

Samsung 830SSD HD 

Noctua Coolers to keep my CPU and GPU under 70 degrees Celsius even on heavy load. 

I am quite satisfied, last upgrade was the hard disk last year. 

Borg999

reply 18

Quoting parrottmath,

reply 17

Just upgraded my work/gaming PC. The last one lasted about 4 years, but what do you expect from a laptop

I haven't looked into it in a very long time, but you can play decent games on a laptop without upgrading the graphics card and RAM nowadays, or are out of the box, middle of the road, laptops sufficient?

I used to buy a new pc every year, but now that money is tight (got down-sized in '09) I have cut back to once every 3 years. Several years back I switched to laptops instead of desktops. I got my new one about 2 months ago because I had bought Age of Wonders III and it would bog down badly. The new one seems to handle it all in stride.

Model:                                     HP Pavilion 17

OS:                                         Windows 8

Processor:                               AMD A10-5750M APU with Radeon HD Graphics 2.50 GHz

GPU:                                       AMD Radeon HD 8650G

System Memory:                     8GB  Micron Technology 1600MHz

Anyway, it does the job for me.