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<blockquote data-quote="D+1" data-source="post: 1666749" data-attributes="member: 13654">My rule for upgrading/buying a computer:Spend as much as you can PAINFULLY afford.&nbsp; You should wake up at night in a cold sweat worrying about how much you spent.&nbsp; Buy as close to bleeding edge as you have enough Band Aids and Bactine to make possible.Your computer will last much longer.&nbsp; It will do what you want it to do NOW.&nbsp; It will remain capable of running newer games much much farther into the forseeable future.&nbsp; You should not NEED to upgrade it for at LEAST a year.&nbsp; When you do upgrade it, it will be because you are so bored with having NOT upgraded anything on it for so long.&nbsp; The sole exception to this is having one or more components commit smoking, ritual suicide.&nbsp; That is, think very seriously about a raid configuration.&nbsp; I know I will with my next machine because I've had too many hard drives just frag themselves, occasionally taking irreplaceable material with them, though the sheer tedious annoyance of having to start over with a clean hard drive reinstalling everything will make it worth the extra money even if it only is needed once.If possible/practical, salvage ram from your older machine to help power your newer machine.&nbsp; Ditto, the hard drive and monitor.&nbsp; Use your older hard drive as a backup.&nbsp; For that matter, reuse the old case if the old computer is going to be unused.&nbsp; That'll save a few bucks if you absolutely have to.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="D+1, post: 1666749, member: 13654"] My rule for upgrading/buying a computer: Spend as much as you can PAINFULLY afford. You should wake up at night in a cold sweat worrying about how much you spent. Buy as close to bleeding edge as you have enough Band Aids and Bactine to make possible. Your computer will last much longer. It will do what you want it to do NOW. It will remain capable of running newer games much much farther into the forseeable future. You should not NEED to upgrade it for at LEAST a year. When you do upgrade it, it will be because you are so bored with having NOT upgraded anything on it for so long. The sole exception to this is having one or more components commit smoking, ritual suicide. That is, think very seriously about a raid configuration. I know I will with my next machine because I've had too many hard drives just frag themselves, occasionally taking irreplaceable material with them, though the sheer tedious annoyance of having to start over with a clean hard drive reinstalling everything will make it worth the extra money even if it only is needed once. If possible/practical, salvage ram from your older machine to help power your newer machine. Ditto, the hard drive and monitor. Use your older hard drive as a backup. For that matter, reuse the old case if the old computer is going to be unused. That'll save a few bucks if you absolutely have to. [/QUOTE]

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