How Often Do you Upgrade Your Computer

I was just reading thru the posts and wondered how often people upgrade their systems... I'm currently an every 6 months guy... however about 5 years ago i was an every month kinda guy... Anyways just curious...
-Cheers

Daily. No, I'm serious.

Thats why i have a SIN account that $100 goes into every check (direct deposit) ... the wife never knows... hahaha

~Cheers

I can prove it when I live next to you and trump everything you own or do remember?

Before I started using a laptop at home I used to get bored and upgrade my PC, for reasons now unknown to me.
My laptop has a lop of accessories since purchase 3 years ago, it has every type of cooling and extension humanly possible, for what reasons... I also dont know.

Looks like someone was tired of being pwned. [/n00b hounding]

I tend to upgrade a part of a computer when the current part doesn't work or isn't sufficient for my uses. Or I'll upgrade if I see a part for very little to no money. For example, I upgraded the RAM in my old laptop to 1.5 GB when I was given a 1GB DDR-333 SODIMM that somebody had in their old laptop that couldn't get the smoke put back in it. I was about the only person they knew that still had a computer that could even use DDR SODIMMs. I also had to upgrade the WLAN NIC in there because the campus WAPs changed from WEP to WPA and my old 802.11b card could not do WPA. I did have to replace a dead HDD. But otherwise, the machine is unchanged from when it shipped in 2002.

My desktop has had only one upgrade and a couple of additions. I added a second monitor, so I needed a GPU with two TDMS outputs and the current unit had only one and it wasn't a dual-DVI-capable port. So I had to upgrade the GPU. I did put a memory card reader in there as I'd overlooked it in the original build and I'd also added a TV card and the requisite extra HDDs and SATA controller card to store the video. But that's not an upgrade as the original HDDs are still in there and so are all the other parts that I put in there when I built the machine.

I generally replace or supplement my computers with new units every 3-5 years, dependent on the computer I'm replacing/supplanting and what I am getting. I built my desktop in early 2006 to augment my laptop as the laptop works fine for note-taking but was severely lacking in the display, CPU, and HDD department. Judging from my experiences in the past, my desktop ought to last another 3-4 years before I'll gut it and replace the major parts. I use my computer reasonably hard, but I'm not rabidly obsessed with always having the fastest parts available like many are here. I replace things when they no longer can do what I need them to. To do otherwise is a waste of money IMHO.