How to Know When to Upgrade Your PC Share Photo: Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/Gizmodo To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. I recently upgraded my PC thanks to some encouragement from my French bulldog, Remy. Turns out there are only so many times a 17 kg dog can enthusiastically slam his bodyweight into a desktop tower before something stops working. Only my graphics card suffered irreparable damage, but since I’d already been thinking of upgrading prior to Remy’s mishap, I decided to go ahead and upgrade most of my components (including my motherboard and CPU) anyway. This particular PC hadn’t been upgraded in years and was starting to show its age — fans running non-stop, games and programs crashing, etc. I had already been running diagnostics and tweaking various settings for months, but I was procrastinating pulling my PC out from under my desk until Remy forced my hand.