Chime in: How often do you upgrade your PC?

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Adding more powerful PC components allows for advanced gaming and enhanced productivity. We're interested in learning how long you last before making the move to upgrade your PC.

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Playing more intensive games requires newer components, be it a processor, motherboard or GPU upgrade. Adding new components to a PC allows for enhanced productivity and immersive media consumption. Most owners try and get this step done as soon as they notice sluggish performance or a "bottleneck."

Trusted Windows Central community ambassador Josiah23 started a thread on our forum to see how long readers take between PC upgrades.

A question for anyone in the community. What is the longest you have gone without upgrading your PC as a whole or without upgrading components? Do you upgrading quarterly? Yearly? Every few years? Maybe you don't remember when I'd say I upgrade something from one of my two rigs every few months. I'm really impatient when it comes to buying PC components.

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So, we want to know how long you usually last before installing new, more powerful components. Do you tend to make smaller upgrades or hold off for a full system rebuild? Head over to our forum and join the conversation!

Rich Edmonds
Rich Edmonds
Senior Editor, PC Build

Rich Edmonds was formerly a Senior Editor of PC hardware at Windows Central, covering everything related to PC components and NAS. He's been involved in technology for more than a decade and knows a thing or two about the magic inside a PC chassis. You can follow him on Twitter at @RichEdmonds.