Updating the 'puter for hardcore ownage

[--Pete]

Hi,

Another thing that gets people is to be realistic about "future upgrade path". How many people have actually upgraded the CPU and kept the same motherboard in the last 5 years?

That's so true. I keep thinking that I'll upgrade the CPU or video card, etc. But looking back over nearly thirty years of rolling my own, about all I ever really 'upgrade' is to add more memory or an additional hard drive, or replace a PSU if it gets overloaded. The only times I've ever 'upgraded' is when I've cannibalized older systems, and very little at that, since it is often cheaper to get new components than it is to buy the older, no longer in production stuff.

Good advice.

--Pete