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What were your last upgrades?

Started by neddamttocs, Jan 27 2013 08:15 AM

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Poll: What were your last upgrades? (56 member(s) have cast votes)

What were your last upgrades?

  1. CPU (9 votes [8.91%])

    Percentage of vote: 8.91%

  2. Motherboard (6 votes [5.94%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.94%

  3. RAM (8 votes [7.92%])

    Percentage of vote: 7.92%

  4. Hard Drive (SSD and Mechanical) (21 votes [20.79%])

    Percentage of vote: 20.79%

  5. Optical Drive (DVD, Blu Ray ...) (2 votes [1.98%])

    Percentage of vote: 1.98%

  6. Video Card (17 votes [16.83%])

    Percentage of vote: 16.83%

  7. Sound Card (1 votes [0.99%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.99%

  8. Case (6 votes [5.94%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.94%

  9. Cooling (5 votes [4.95%])

    Percentage of vote: 4.95%

  10. Accessories (Fans, lights and other stuff) (9 votes [8.91%])

    Percentage of vote: 8.91%

  11. Peripherals (Keyboard, Mouse, etc) (14 votes [13.86%])

    Percentage of vote: 13.86%

  12. Other (3 votes [2.97%])

    Percentage of vote: 2.97%

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#1 neddamttocs

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Posted 27 January 2013 - 08:15 AM

This week on OCC Poll we want to know what were the upgrades you did to your PC?



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Posted 27 January 2013 - 10:06 AM

My last upgrade was my new ASUS GTX690 :)


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Posted 27 January 2013 - 10:49 AM

Reworked my loops after my leaks killed my 570's


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Posted 27 January 2013 - 10:58 AM

OCZ Vertex 4 256gb :D

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Posted 27 January 2013 - 11:52 AM

Does a complete new system count?  :)


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Posted 27 January 2013 - 12:20 PM

240GB SSD and Audioengine D1 USB DAC/Amp

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Posted 27 January 2013 - 12:24 PM

Cm Storm Quickfire. Before that a whole SSD/Mobo/CPU/RAM


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Posted 27 January 2013 - 01:46 PM

Upgraded from amd 550x2 to intel i7 6 months ago, so cpu, mb, and ram, that was 6 months ago, 3 months ago added ssd, so I guess an ssd was my last upgrade. :teehee:


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Posted 27 January 2013 - 03:16 PM

Bought more storage...although I have bought some other parts to start a new build, but that's not really an upgrade is it?  :no:


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Posted 27 January 2013 - 04:29 PM

5970-> 7950

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Vertex 2 120GB -> SanDisk Extreme 240GB

 

You'll never see me upgrading my case :D


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Posted 27 January 2013 - 04:54 PM

last upgrade was in November when i up'd my memory from 6GB triple channel to 12 GB triple channel swapped out the 3 old WD 400 GB HDD's for 4- 256 GB crucial SSD's, video cards from a gtx 560 ti and an old gtx 260 for physics to 2 ASUS GTX680's new fans for my rads and a logysis 6 channel fan controller 

 

oh yeah and a blu ray burner (had to retire my trusty old IDE optical drives due to failure :( )


Edited by OCrookie, 27 January 2013 - 04:54 PM.

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Posted 27 January 2013 - 05:01 PM

5970-> 7950

and

Vertex 2 120GB -> SanDisk Extreme 240GB

 

You'll never see me upgrading my case :D

I may make some upgrades to my case in the future but it will never be completely replaced Mountain mods Ascension is awesome like that  :woot:


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