How bad is your upgrade itch?

[Athlonite]

My Upgrade itch is only surpassed by by my lack of funds for upgrading.
I see a sea of things I'd really like but then I look at my bank balance and sigh and think well damn I guess not then

 

[Lew Zealand]

"New" gear itch scratched recently. Used 3070 on the way, can't wait!

 

[Todestrieb]

CPU: Not itchy at all. Depends on when 5800X3D become obsolete enough to be the bottleneck for 4K60fps, the plan is that the need to upgrade will appear at end of AM5 / early AM6.

GPU: Depends on what happens on next gen, I might get a bit itchy, but current top-end ish GPU should run strong in quite a few years. The plan is stay out for two more gen (get a RTX7080 equivalent).

Monitor: Itchy AF. I have been staring at all the new OLED offerings and my brother's 27" OLED for a whole year, but I want 4K , high refresh rate, 27inch in OLED, and 32inch is too big for my desk. I'm commited to go with double 27" 4K. The current IPS I'm using is really bad at dark / black things (or this is just something I'm not used to after a year). Have to wait a few more months, maybe a year until the new offerings appear while swearing at the manufactures omit such a giant hole in the market.

 

[Launcestonian]

I scratched that itch couple days ago by ordering a Ryzen 9 9900X, my first adventure in to a dual CCD chip! The price was about the same as when I bought the 9700X couple months back... so I'll probably be the first (in my country) to sell a used Zen 5 to fund the upgrade...
Have no interest in X3D hysteria doing the rounds atm.

 

[A Computer Guy]

After having a great experience with 4060LP I'd like to try a 4070 or 4070TI someday but I've had little time for gaming in the past months.

 

[Ruru]

Nothing too bad currently. Though I'm thinking of getting a new RAM kit (so I can put my current 32GB kit to my 2nd PC, and its 16GB kit to my project rig) and more storage.

 

[A Computer Guy]

When I get a bad itch I will usually window shop for awhile or hunt for impossible deals until I reach a point and say "that's nice but I don't really need it".

 

[Gmr_Chick]

I was all set to make a Microcenter run for a new MB, GPU and proc once the x3ds hit. Already picked up the memory, PSU and case. Then our pup was diagnosed with cancer 4 weeks ago. I told the vet to do whatever it takes to kick cancers ass our boy deserves every chance we can give him. So far its working thank God. Spendin 10 grand to keep our baby boy alive had a way of straightening out my priorities with a quickness. Spoiling our guy has become my focus for as many months or years as I can get with him from here on out Computer shit can wait.

Poor little guy

Here's to hoping your furry little dude kicks the cancer's ass!

 

[ShrimpBrime]

After having a great experience with 4060LP I'd like to try a 4070 or 4070TI someday but I've had little time for gaming in the past months.

4070 is a nice card. Little pricey, but its fast. Got a Super over here and I love this damn card. About as much as I fell in love with GTX 980 and GTX 980ti. I recommend one!

 

[wheresmycar]

When I get a bad itch I will usually window shop for awhile or hunt for impossible deals until I reach a point and say "that's nice but I don't really need it".

"window shopping" - that there is the unfiltered enthusiasm for the never-ending world of PC building!

If you're not spending 99.9% of your time window shopping and only 0.01% pulling the trigger, somethings gone wrong in your programming. This is the sacred balance of the perpetual browsing gang of PC enthusiasts everywhere... we will window shop until we drop!

 

[mechtech]

Sounds like a worthy upgrade better time than ever to make the jump to a decent 64GB or 96GB kit too

I have like, zero upgrade itch, ever since DCS began rapid fire shooting itself in the foot. Who knew that playing less graphically demanding games = kinder on the wallet

.........or maybe my PC upgrade itch just migrated to other things, lol

ditto

System is going on 2 years old. Another 4 years to go at least. Might update to w11...............we'll see...................

 

[eidairaman1]

Y'all need to pick some of this stuff up to stop it.

 

[The N]

I did Justifiable upgrade this year; from i5 8600K to 12600K, Z690 MB and DDR5. I am very happy with it and I hope my next 2 years would past smoothly.

But inside, the itch never left, as I haven't yet upgraded my GPU, currently have 3060Ti 8GB and VRAM simply is a limiting factor during my video editing workloads. Previously, I decided for 3080 but not worth it as it draws huge power with only 10GB vRAM, urges for better and newer model from 4xxx series, could be 4070Ti, waiting for the price to drop further. Besides, 2 NVMe slots are still empty on motherboard and I definitely need a drive for gaming-specific purpose, that is another itch.

 

[DaemonForce]

As the title suggest how bad is your upgrade itch?

Real bad on specific things.
-----Workstation
I've been on a RX 580 since 2018 and it's been great but I'm now on the inbound pendulum swing of creator mode and need DX12_2, WAY more FP64 and dual encode.
Performance is good but render jobs suffer and to avoid some oddly specific complications, I need better encoding options to avoid running a full time stream+record server.
The executive problem is that I don't understand the direction my favorite platforms are going and if they stick to h264, I'll abandon everything again.
The bare minimum acceptance for quality is h265 but also corners the biggest legal headaches for each platform, which is why it doesn't get adopted anywhere.
AV1 is supposedly the future but we're not there and we're not going to get there for a VERY long time. Doesn't matter what some "stream professor" weirdo says.

So I'm at a crossroads with this GPU noise. I can:
Pick up a used 6900XT for $450 and have zero issues unless AV1 takes over
Try again getting delivery of a functional 7900XT, which has been an absolute clown show ALL YEAR
Or wait it out for an 8800XT in January, assuming the specs and performance are a real successor to defunct GRE junk.
It's one colossal executive disorder hiding a Rubik's Cube Pandora's Box Timecube type of headache.

As for CPUs, my R5 3600 is fine, no push in any particular direction to upgrade but maybe a 5900XT will appear at a good price next year or falls off a cliff.
The way it stands now, it's the last care I put into my workstation and when the 5700X3D and 5900X start looking cutthroat competitive, I'll jump on that.
I've already long since decided that AM5 is NOT a direction that I will go and it's obvious that whatever I pick on AM4, that's the capstone.

My main g3x4 M.2 is on the way out and I'll need a successor next year in the form of dual g4x4. It's probably going to be Crucial.
I have an x1 adapter ready to move the old M.2 into a server in the event that I can get another box to approve of its existence.

-----Rack 1
Needs an encoder card. Probably gonna go with Intel if I can ever find a HHHL A750 or something.
The lack of low profile designs is so paralyzingly stupid.
Intel promises cool new silicon and then derps on packaging.
Those of us with dedicated equipment can't justify a $200 card so of course I'll stick to cramming a $600-700 card in the workstation. BALLS.
I may need to run a new capture card in here soon.
They often ship with their own encoder, which would fix all of this but latency and dual HDMI will be an issue.

-----eMachines
I need to retire a small sub-5TB HDD and replace it with another 16-22TB or something. That sata2 port has recently become too valuable for it.

 

[Enterprise24]

I'll upgrade from direct die 10900KF to another direct die 9800X3D soon.
Already bought $115 ASRock B650M HDV/M.2 and $192 Klevv 48GB 7200MT/s.

Saw this combination with 9600X, RAM could OC to 8400MT/s on stock heatspreader so I expect 8600 on "direct memory chips waterblock instead of normal RAM waterblock".
Gonna have some fun with RAM tuning and cooling again. This time I plan to upgrade from 120mm radiator to 240mm for RAM alone.

Later let's hope that 50 series price will at least stay the same...

 

[Hankieroseman]

Your new gateway drug, lol. All that worrying about GPU prices seems so small in the rearview mirror now.......and that's definitely not a good thing

I used to be all messed up on bass fishing. Now I'm all messed up on DCS Flight Simulator. Started small with MS Combat Flight SimulatorⅡand Win98 in 2002. Now I fly the "Darkstar" at Mach 9+. LA to Honolulu in 45 minutes. Oh the Rrrruuuusssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
SONIC______KA___BOOOOOM!!!

Y'all need to pick some of this stuff up to stop it.

NO! NO! This is what you pick up.

 

[Carlyle2020hs]

I´ve lost the itch alltogether.

Poor intel does not have the balls to fix relations with bartlett lake.
And panther lake seems to be only antoher stop-gap like arrow lake. It will get its IMC back on the cpu tile for just one gen? To be ripped out again after? Is that true progress?

Meanwhile AMDs upcoming CPUs are going to be really nice.
Until one thinks about their prehistoric chipsets, that are only connected with 4x pcie4 lanes. One puny pcie4 SSD can fill that.
Thanks to AM5 we have to endure this now until 2028 before something truly intersting can be finally imlemented.

And looking at motherboard prices i think i´m turning in my antistatic gloves for gardening gloves.

Screw "CEP", "infinity fabric" and anyhting "beta".
I´m going to learn what the heck "VPD" is.

 

[eidairaman1]

This is the problem for some lol

 

[[crs]]

For a change I have no itch to upgrade, the 5800X3D is doing a fine job with games all my peripherals are good enough. I'd literally just be throwing money at the PC to get marginally better stuff for the sake of it atm.

It actually feels good to not be enticed by a new shiny PC part in a while lol

 

[Shihab]

As far as my desktop goes, I'm -mostly- ok. My greatest want is switching this Nvidia card for an AMD one. I wouldn't call it an "upgrade" itch because I wouldn't mind going for a card with the same performance. I just want to stop having to work around Nvidia's issues every bloody day!

My 6 year old "work" laptop needs to be retired tho. Its i5 8250U wasn't that great when it was new, and its chassis and ancillary components are either broken, removed or well past their operational lifespan. Probably the first big thing to get upgraded when I have cash to spare (Even though I dread the thought of trying to get my head around how vendors structure their mobile SKUs again).

 

[Gmr_Chick]

Y'all need to pick some of this stuff up to stop it.

"Itchy Butt"...homie either has hemorrhoids or he don't wipe his ass good enough!

 

[windwhirl]

I'm still rocking a Ryzen 3600 (non X) with 16 GB of DDR4-3200 RAM and a RX 580 (actual RX 580 with 8 GB of VRAM, not the 2048SP scam). I have a bit of an itch to upgrade the GPU but not much (I'm mostly concerned that the GPU will just self-retire before I can get a new one, lol)

I'm thinking of upgrading my mom's desktop pc tho, and honestly? She could get my PC and it'd be a massive upgrade for her, so maybe I could build a new one for myself, stomp down the itch before it bothers me and upgrade her own in one hit, haha

 

[Frick]

Meanwhile AMDs upcoming CPUs are going to be really nice.
Until one thinks about their prehistoric chipsets, that are only connected with 4x pcie4 lanes. One puny pcie4 SSD can fill that.

Is this an actual issue for you? It's not common to fully load several SSDs at once.

 

[Carlyle2020hs]

With intels z690/z799/z890 8x pcie4 chipsets i can raid-0 two pcie4 SSDs together and get pcie5 speeds.

Meaning i can have a second drive that can internally accept the full speed the main pcie5 ssd can dish out

Why bother with m.2 SSDs if they land in a rig that can´t even make proper use of their advertised speeds to the fullest?

 

[Shou Miko]

My hardware upgrade itch had been stronger in the past then what it is now that i gotten older and I value my money more and saving up for things I need or want in life.

With this said if the RX 8800 XT about 250W with RTX 4080 performance I might do a upgrade of my RTX 4070 depending on price and what's happening.