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Hmm, we have multiple PC's in our household.
Two Intel Core 2 Duos (no idea about speed) with a decent, 128Mb video card, onboard sound, onboard network. Those are our PC's and they get a lot of use with Visual Studio, games and PSP (I think I got version 9). Both on XP.
Then we've our multimedia pc beside the tv, which is a AMD Duron 700 with a lot of HDD space. The video card in it died recently, but it was a cheapo card. And got replaced with one of our old video cards. (OS is XP MediaCenter)
And finally, there is our web/sql/file/mp3/everything-server. That's a AMD Athlon 700, again with a lot of HDD space and the DVD burner. As it is a server, it's running Win2K3.
The Duron will be replaced once we've a new TV, which will be between now and 3 years in the future (somewhere), the Athlon will be replaced when more memory dies (we're running out of SDRAM!) and our own PC's will be replaced when there's money (they are about 2 1/2 years old) or when there's a real need (like a game that I really, really, really want comes out and it won't run on my current set).
So, we generally only upgrade when there's a need. Parts may be replaced or upgraded (one HDD died on the server, we replaced all three with a bigger one, more memory in our own PC's, etc.)
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