Upgrade or Rebuild?

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MrCrispy

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My experience has been that if you keep a pc for >2-3 years, its usually better to rebuild. Because pc tech changes so fast, if you have any components that are worth keeping, such as motherboard, RAM, PSU, gfx, it means they must have been top of line when you bought them and thus paid a lot. And whats new today will become common and cheap in ~6 months.

But that's just my experience. Do you agree?
 
No. It all depends on your computer usage and availability of parts.

For instance:
I bought a q6600 a few years ago and had it on a Nvidia 7100 chipset. Did I need to replace it with the one in my signature? No, It met all of my needs, and still a fine chip. Why did I replace it then? I chose to replace it due to the high demand for the chip and ram, and made a solid upgrade path for me to move to the next generation. Could I have just upgraded to a ssd? Yey, I could have done that :D
 
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