How much have you ever spent on a PC

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Either custom built or pre-built. Like with new parts or a mix.

Well with a mix of new and old I spent £770 on my custom built PC. You can check out the specs in my 256MB XFX GF6800 GT review by clicking on one of the URL's of the benchmarks folks.
 
I've spent a fair amount (for a student anyway) over time on PCs.

The first PC my family bought was £600 + £100 for the monitor (though thankfully my parents paid for this as it was to be a 'family' PC).

Spec of that was P4 1.6GHz
256MB PC133 SDRAM
80GB 5400rpm Seagate HDD
Unknown mobo
GeForce 3 Ti200 64MB
40x32x16 Sony CD-RW
16x DVD-ROM

I upgraded it with another 256MB of cheap RAM I got for something like £40 quid.

The next PC I bought with my own money.

I kept the graphics card, hard drive, CD-RW and DVD drive of the first PC for the second PC.

I don't have the invoice from the second PC, so the following prices are from memory.

Athlon 2700+ (£217)
Asus A7N8X-D (£100)
512MB Corsair XMS (£100)
80GB 5400rpm Seagate HDD (£ free)
GeForce 3 Ti200 64MB (£ free)
40x32x16 Sony CD-RW (£ free)
16x DVD-ROM (£ free)
420W Thermaltake W008R PSU (£40)
Case (£55)

I've bought some more parts for this since I bought these components.

Radeon 9600 Pro (£100)
Pioneer 108 16x DVD-RW (£50)
Lite-On 52x24x52 CD-RW (£35)
120GB WD HDD (£70)
200GB WD HDD (£115)
250GB WD HDD (£150)
250GB WD SATA HDD (£180)
External USB HDD Enclosure (£20)
Altec Lansing 2.1 Speakers (£30)
Logitech Z560 Speakers (£130)
ADSL Router (£55)
Keyboard & Mouse (£40)
Epson C62 Printer (£65)
Sennheiser Wireless Headphones (£30)

I've probably left a few things out, but that's about £2320 in total, 700 of which was paid by my parents.

There's also probably about £100-150 CD/DVD Media and ink to go on top of that too.
 
I've spent too much.... :indiff: And my computer is showing its age nowadys... very dated.
 
The most is about £6000 ($12000) but that was in 1999, the most I've spent recently is £3000 all together I've spent about £15,000 but I'm planning to get two 7800 GTXs and an athlon FX57 costng about £1600 so by christmas I/others will have spent £16,600 ($33,200O) on my rigs not including laptops.

Edit:I've also spent £900 on monitors bringing the total price to £17,500 ($35,000)
 
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The most is about £6000 ($12000) but that was in 1999, the most I've spent recently is £3000 all together I've spent about £15,000 but I'm planning to get two 7800 GTXs and an athlon FX57 costng about £1600 so by christmas I/others will have spent £16,600 ($33,200O) on my rigs not including laptops.
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I hate you. :)
 
My parents paid for my first 3 computers...each was between $2500 and $3000 (in '96, '99, and '03). I paid for this one, which has cost about $1500 so far but there will probably be anouther $500 I'll put into it.

EDIT: Are we including monitors? I forgot to include the $350 for the display on this computer, which I actually bought several months ago, before I built it.
 
My parents paid for the past 4 family computers. The oldest one was about 2000+ dollars like 10 years ago and the second one was about 1000 dollars. The one I'm on now costed us 800 dollars and the other one we have right now was 600 dollars.

I'm looking to build my own computer soon though. I'm looking at 700 dollars worth of parts:
ASUS A8N-SLi Motherboard
Athlon 64 3500+ (Socket 939)
At least 1GB of Corsair or Kingston RAM
At least 80GB SATA2 harddrive
A new case.
BFG Tech 256MB Nvidia Geforce 7800 GTX

I have some old cd rom drives, a monitor and old keyboard and mouse already. Although I'm looking at investing in a wireless keyboard and mouse so I can be lazy and type and do homework while laying in bed.
 
Well, our first proper desktop was £900 but we added a "high quality" flat panel screen to it. That made it £1200:

P4, supposedly 2.8ghz
60gb hard drive
256mb memory
cdrw drive
dvd rom drive
floppy disk drive
4 usb ports.
That must have been in either 2000 or 2001 that we bought it

The next was the dreaded toshiba. We bought it for £1000, but we bought insurance with it for £500. And i thought the insurance was a bad idea at the time ...
Well, to cut a long story short, ir broke. 8 times in the few months that we had owned it. So, it got repaired by the insurance, then broke again, then repaired, then broke again, then ... you get the idea. So, we walked into pcworld with it and asked for a replacement because it had gone wrong so many times. They eventually agreed, and allowed us to replace it with a laptop of the same spec free of charge. That laptop happened to be a clone of our one, and after my experiences of them dying, we decided to pay the difference in price to get a better one. So that was another £130 on top. My current laptop would have been £949 to buy normally, and yet in theory, we payed £1130 due to the depreciation of the dreadful toshiba. Plus £500 insurance, and an external hard drive for £90 that we had to get for the toshiba to stop my work going up in smoke.

£1000+£500+£90+£130 = £1720. That's a lot for a £950 laptop ...
 
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ASUS A8N-SLi Motherboard
Athlon 64 3500+ (Socket 939)
At least 1GB of Corsair or Kingston RAM
At least 80GB SATA2 harddrive
A new case.
BFG Tech 256MB Nvidia Geforce 7800 GTX

I have some old cd rom drives, a monitor and old keyboard and mouse already. Although I'm looking at investing in a wireless keyboard and mouse so I can be lazy and type and do homework while laying in bed.
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If your getting a 7800GTX you should get an athlon 64 3700. Also consider your PSU remember the rig will consume alot of power so you want a good PSUthats reliable.
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My current rig has cost me around $2000AU.

Pretty good considering thats about the same as you'd pay for some crappy Dell computer that doesn't even have half the power as mine.
 
Well.... Early Spring 1993 - $2800

250meg Harddrive, 8 megabytes of ram, 15 inch monitor. 486 DX2 66. Yes, a 66mhz chip.

When I ordered it, I asked for 8 meg of ram, and the salesperson wondered why I needed so much. I needed it for running CAD.

Wow...That was a long time ago. I've seen watches with more processing power nowadays.

AO
 
~$2000 for mine, $450 for the monitor.
$2000 for my bro's, I didn't get a monitor for his since he's got a good crt for graphics anyways.

The only real differences in the two are that mine has a much more powerful video card in and a less powerful CPU. My bro has the dual core athlon64 and a geforce6600.
 
about £700 i'd say. were not rich and i dont need like ultra high specs. i used to play alot of games, but i dont anymore. if its fast enough to run MSN with a webcam convo whilst playing music and browsing its fine by me

edit: actually, i forgot about monitors and printers etc etc. we bought a printer to go with this PC, that boosted the price to say £900, then £100 for a new monitor when the older one crapped out, then £20 for a new keyboard, and £20 for a optical mouse (at that time). and then the newer PC was £600 odd, plus £10 for the same optical mouse, but 5 years on :sly:, and £30 for a new printer. so PC1=£1040, new one £640
 
The first computer I bought was a Gateway Pentium 200 with 32MB RAM, 4GB Hard Disk, 4MB Graphics Card, 17" monitor in 1996. It cost £2,000.

The second was a Dell PIII-1000 with 256MB Memory, 40GB Hard Disk, 64MB Graphics Car, 21" CRT monitor in 2000. It was £3,300.

The third was a self-build Athlon 3800 with 1GB Memory, 2x250GB Hard Disk, 128MB Graphics Card, 19" TFT in 2004. It was £1,600.
 
GilesGuthrie
The first computer I bought was a Gateway Pentium 200 with 32MB RAM, 4GB Hard Disk, 4MB Graphics Card, 17" monitor in 1996. It cost £2,000.

The second was a Dell PIII-1000 with 256MB Memory, 40GB Hard Disk, 64MB Graphics Car, 21" CRT monitor in 2000. It was £3,300.

The third was a self-build Athlon 3800 with 1GB Memory, 2x250GB Hard Disk, 128MB Graphics Card, 19" TFT in 2004. It was £1,600.
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I trust you're still happy with the AMD ? (Based on me not being banned ;) )
 
the last one was just under a grand, 3 years of blue screen hell :banghead: i think the whole family needed a break from tearing our hair out with that thing, finally happy now with a standard spec imac g5 for under a grand got a £200 discount for being with NUS ahh peace at last...
 
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I trust you're still happy with the AMD ? (Based on me not being banned ;) )
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:lol: Yes, I am, thanks.

I've actually been discussing using AMD boxes with my client. HP (their preferred vendor) are doing AMD and Intel boxes, and I think there may be a cost benefit for them to switch to AMD when HP EOL the current Intel-based DC7100.
 
GilesGuthrie
The first computer I bought was a Gateway Pentium 200 with 32MB RAM, 4GB Hard Disk, 4MB Graphics Card, 17" monitor in 1996. It cost £2,000.

The second was a Dell PIII-1000 with 256MB Memory, 40GB Hard Disk, 64MB Graphics Car, 21" CRT monitor in 2000. It was £3,300.

The third was a self-build Athlon 3800 with 1GB Memory, 2x250GB Hard Disk, 128MB Graphics Card, 19" TFT in 2004. It was £1,600.
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My first computer (my parents bought it but couldn't use it) was over $3,000. It had a 20mb hard drive, and 128k of ram. It was the first Mac they made. Little combo box, black and white screen and floppy drive. It was so awesome, you didn't even need boot disks.

:)
 

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