Welcome everyone to post number one of hpgm. Let me tell you what this is about. I've been a PC gamer for as long as I can remember. It’s a great hobby, but it’s not cheap. Normally for me, I upgrade rarely and then only when I have a boost in funds (Bonus at work, sell a car etc etc). This has worked, but of course I can never afford a killer PC, which means my PC spends far more time obsolete than it does as cutting edge.
This has gotten especially bad as about a year ago, just as my PC was getting to the 'kinda needs an upgrade' point, I bought a house, and discovered league of legends. So I had no money, and an addictive game that ran just fine on my aging PC. Fast forward to today and I have a PC that won't run BF3 (I was a huge BF2 and 2142 player, and was really looking forward to these games), and no chance to save the kind of money I need for a full upgrade. I can spare about £100 a month.
Now, my issue is that my system is so old, I needed to replace the Mother board, CPU and Ram all at once, which on its own would be £350 - so that’s 4 months of saving before I get any kind of performance increase.
So I sat down and had a think, and I realised that while I couldn't buy nice shiny kit for a few months, I could buy a very simple upgrade for about £100 (More details in the next post), and that this would allow me to start upgrading a bit at a time. This blog tracks that idea - I will go from zero to, well, fairly respectable, on a budget of £100 a month. Check back in later for more details.
This has gotten especially bad as about a year ago, just as my PC was getting to the 'kinda needs an upgrade' point, I bought a house, and discovered league of legends. So I had no money, and an addictive game that ran just fine on my aging PC. Fast forward to today and I have a PC that won't run BF3 (I was a huge BF2 and 2142 player, and was really looking forward to these games), and no chance to save the kind of money I need for a full upgrade. I can spare about £100 a month.
Now, my issue is that my system is so old, I needed to replace the Mother board, CPU and Ram all at once, which on its own would be £350 - so that’s 4 months of saving before I get any kind of performance increase.
So I sat down and had a think, and I realised that while I couldn't buy nice shiny kit for a few months, I could buy a very simple upgrade for about £100 (More details in the next post), and that this would allow me to start upgrading a bit at a time. This blog tracks that idea - I will go from zero to, well, fairly respectable, on a budget of £100 a month. Check back in later for more details.
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