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Dr.Vita on 27 October 2016
Ka-pi96 said:
Dr.Vita said:

I will start with 2010 because I can't remember how it was before.
2010 - Playstation 3
2012 - Playstation Vita
2015 - Playstation 4

At the moment there are no plans for me to buy a new console until Playstation 5 (2019-2020).

What if a Vita successor releases before that?

 

Hey, it may be a long shot but it could happen...


If that happened I would buy it too.




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Mummelmann on 27 October 2016
Zekkyou said:
Mummelmann said:

July last year, 980Ti was pretty much as good as it got back then, same or better performance than a Titan and at a lower price. I waited for AMD to show their new line with HBM but the memory pool itself was too small and the cards didn't deliver the performance I was hoping for. I went with a huge tower for maximum airflow, lessening the need for cooling fans and systems and, of course, only SSD, both for system and games. Having killer hardware and regular HDD's just doesn't make sense to me and SSD's have really come down in price in the past two years or so.

I wish i could have afforded more SSD's, but i was restricted by my need for a lot of easily accessible storage (currently sitting at about 5.5tb). I have enough space to store the OS and games i frequently visit on the SDD, but for the most part i put them on the 3rd HDD. It might be worth me picking up another SSD next year specially for storing games on. Mind my asking which SSD you use?

Crucial MX 100 and MX200 (250 and 500GB). Works like a charm and they're not expensive either!



Zekkyou on 27 October 2016
Mummelmann said:
Zekkyou said:

I wish i could have afforded more SSD's, but i was restricted by my need for a lot of easily accessible storage (currently sitting at about 5.5tb). I have enough space to store the OS and games i frequently visit on the SDD, but for the most part i put them on the 3rd HDD. It might be worth me picking up another SSD next year specially for storing games on. Mind my asking which SSD you use?

Crucial MX 100 and MX200 (250 and 500GB). Works like a charm and they're not expensive either!

Oh wow, those are pretty well priced. Thanks!



Conina on 27 October 2016

Not often enough, I love buying hardware ;)

  • July 1987 = Commodore 128 (2 MHz) + VC1571
  • Nov 1989 = Amiga 500 (7 MHz) + 512k expansion
  • Dec 1992 = A500 Blizzard Turbo Memory Card (14 MHz)
  • Oct 1993 = my first PC (486 DX33 MHz, 8 MB RAM, 1 MB GPU)
  • Dec 1994 = my first CPU-upgrade (486 DX4/100 MHz)
  • Dec 1995 = my first GPU-upgrade (S3 Trio 64, 2 MB)
  • Oct 1996 = my first 3D-accelerator (3DfX Voodoo, 4 MB)
  • Dec 1996 = PS1 + Riva 128 (4 MB)
  • May 1997 = N64 + AMD K6-266 MHz
  • Sept 1998 = Celeron 400 MHz
  • July 1999 = Riva TNT 2 (32 MB)
  • June 2000 = Gameboy Color
  • Aug 2000 = Geforce 256 DDR (32 MB) + Celeron II 850 MHz
  • May 2002 = Geforce 4600 Ti (128 MB) + Athlon XP 2000+
  • April 2003 = GBA SP silver + GameCube black
  • April 2004 = Radeon 9800 Pro (128 MB) + Athlon 64 3400+
  • Mar 2005 = Xbox Crystal Pack
  • April 2005 = PSP-1000
  • Dec 2005 = Xbox 360 Premium (no HDMI)
  • Mar 2006 = Geforce 7800 GS (256 MB)
  • Aug 2006 = Core2Duo E6600
  • Dec 2006 = Wii
  • April 2007 = Geforce 8800 GTX (768 MB)
  • June 2007 = PS3 60 GB
  • April 2008 = Xbox 360 Arcade (HDMI)
  • Dec 2008 = DS Lite black
  • April 2009 = GTX 275 (896 MB)
  • June 2009 = Core2Quad Q9550
  • June 2010 = iPad 1
  • July 2010 = GTX 460 (1 GB)
  • Mar 2011 = 3D Vision Set (120hz monitor + 3D glasses)
  • Sept 2011 = GTX 580 (1.5 GB)
  • Feb 2012 = PSVita OLED 3G
  • April 2012 = iPad 3
  • July 2012 = 3DS XL red
  • Oct 2013 = Core i5 4670K
  • Nov 2013 = iPad Air
  • Jan 2014 = Wii U Premium + PS4
  • Feb 2014 = PSVita Slim
  • Sept 2014 = GTX 970 (3.5 GB)
  • May 2015 = Xbox One
  • Sept 2016 = GTX 1070 (8 GB)
  • Oct 2016 = PlayStation VR
  • Nov 2016 = PS4 Pro
  • Mar 2017 = Nintendo Switch
  • end of 2017: PC VR and/or Xbox Scorpio


VAMatt on 27 October 2016

After reading all of the responses, I think the general answer to the question of "how often do you buy new hardware" is "whenever there is something that I want, and I can afford it."