A new question: What do you guys do with your old components? Sell them on ebay?
I tend to keep a previous computer around as a backup. By the time it's too old to be even a useful backup, I give it away.
Having a backup computer around actually helped when my "good" computer died several months ago of a motherboard failure. I pulled several working components out of the new computer and used them as upgrades to the old computer and have been using that ever since.
AMD Socket AM3 ; Phenom™ II/Athlon™ II/Sempron™ 100 Series Processors
Edit: For my laptop I've found out i can double the ram, which should help as it is hitting the ram limit during gaming sessions (from 8 to 16 in this case), and i think i will also take all of your advice on getting an ssd, the processor and gpu will just have to do for now, and i guess i won't get SLI as it doesn't boat even a 50% performance boost... ?
Just theoretically, if i could sell this laptop for what i bought it for (700ish €) and get something new for 800-1000€, would you guys recommend that?
I know you're all saying "get a desktop" "upgrade your desktop" but i like having the mobile option too
AMD 770 chipset is long in the tooth, although DDR3 memory is cheap and worth adding 8GB. And an SSD can be moved to any computer, laptop or desktop. Your CPU is about as fast as you are going to get with that chipset.
Computers are worse than new cars. Your depreciation is at over 60% even 3-4 years after purchase. If you can get full price out of your old laptop, by all means do so and buy a more game-worthy machine. But don't count on getting all of your money back on your old one.
The world is going to the dogs, which is just how I planned it!
A new question: What do you guys do with your old components? Sell them on ebay?
I tend to keep a previous computer around as a backup. By the time it's too old to be even a useful backup, I give it away.
Having a backup computer around actually helped when my "good" computer died several months ago of a motherboard failure. I pulled several working components out of the new computer and used them as upgrades to the old computer and have been using that ever since.
I do have a good amount of spare parts.
For the most part, if I have an entire intact computer, I donate it (you get a very nice tax break on donated PCs). If I just have bits and pieces, I shelf it for spares/troubleshooting. On the rare event that it still has some decent useful life on it and isn't so old as to be nearly obsolete, I have ebayed some parts out before, but I don't do that often.
Computers are worse than new cars. Your depreciation is at over 60% even 3-4 years after purchase. If you can get full price out of your old laptop, by all means do so and buy a more game-worthy machine. But don't count on getting all of your money back on your old one.
I once worked for a tax agency, and their formula assumed that a new computer loses 90% of its value within the first three years. After that, however, there was no further depreciation, so if a business kept some ancient hardware around that cost a fortune when new and was basically junk today, they'd assume it was still worth 10% of the original purchase price and tax them on it accordingly.
so i'm planning on replacing the dvd drive with a 250 g ssd and doubling the ram on this notebook, i noticed that both of those components in hardware monitoring are more often at 100% load than gpu and cpu, then once having done that upgrade, checking performance, if it's insignificant, i can probably give those parts back, and go for an entirely new machine (whether desktop or laptop).
Computers are worse than new cars. Your depreciation is at over 60% even 3-4 years after purchase. If you can get full price out of your old laptop, by all means do so and buy a more game-worthy machine. But don't count on getting all of your money back on your old one.
I once worked for a tax agency, and their formula assumed that a new computer loses 90% of its value within the first three years. After that, however, there was no further depreciation, so if a business kept some ancient hardware around that cost a fortune when new and was basically junk today, they'd assume it was still worth 10% of the original purchase price and tax them on it accordingly.
Computers are worse than new cars. Your depreciation is at over 60% even 3-4 years after purchase. If you can get full price out of your old laptop, by all means do so and buy a more game-worthy machine. But don't count on getting all of your money back on your old one.
I once worked for a tax agency, and their formula assumed that a new computer loses 90% of its value within the first three years. After that, however, there was no further depreciation, so if a business kept some ancient hardware around that cost a fortune when new and was basically junk today, they'd assume it was still worth 10% of the original purchase price and tax them on it accordingly.
90% that is harsh.
indeed, and i don't think entirely accurate, at least, not market value... perhaps at some time in history?
I have found out my gt 755m has "2g ddr 5 ram", whereas most cards now have 4 to 8g?
Also, I managed to more or less fix the fps issues i was having in the game i was playing to an acceptable degree, by using "Nvidia Inspector" and forcing V Sync off, why that makes such a huge difference (doubled frames) is beyond me, but it did.
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Having a backup computer around actually helped when my "good" computer died several months ago of a motherboard failure. I pulled several working components out of the new computer and used them as upgrades to the old computer and have been using that ever since.
Computers are worse than new cars. Your depreciation is at over 60% even 3-4 years after purchase. If you can get full price out of your old laptop, by all means do so and buy a more game-worthy machine. But don't count on getting all of your money back on your old one.
The world is going to the dogs, which is just how I planned it!
For the most part, if I have an entire intact computer, I donate it (you get a very nice tax break on donated PCs). If I just have bits and pieces, I shelf it for spares/troubleshooting. On the rare event that it still has some decent useful life on it and isn't so old as to be nearly obsolete, I have ebayed some parts out before, but I don't do that often.
Thanks to everyone who answered in this thread.
indeed, and i don't think entirely accurate, at least, not market value... perhaps at some time in history?
I have found out my gt 755m has "2g ddr 5 ram", whereas most cards now have 4 to 8g?
Also, I managed to more or less fix the fps issues i was having in the game i was playing to an acceptable degree, by using "Nvidia Inspector" and forcing V Sync off, why that makes such a huge difference (doubled frames) is beyond me, but it did.