QOTD: How Much Did You Spend on Your PC?

[Guest]

back in 04 i spent $1,200 on my computer. Its a dinky AthlonXP 3200+ @ 2.2ghz, it came with 512mb of DDR mem, but 2 years ago i put in 2gigs. Other than that its pretty much stock, when i get the money soon i'm building a core i7/gtx 295 computer.

 

[cracklint]

720 x3 pII, 4 gig 1066 ddr, 640 gb 3.0 sata, cooler master cavalier case (from last system build), saphire 4870 512, 790gx gigabyte motherboard, artic cooler fan, LG DVD/CD burner $650. $650

 

[jonpaul37]

CPU: Intel E8400 - $174.00
MoBo: ASUS P5Q Pro - $129.00
Video: Sapphire 4870 1GB - $210.00
Hard Drive: WD Caviar Black 640 GB - $80.00
Case: Sunbeam - $55.00
PSU: PC Power & Cooling 610 watt - $100.00
Heatsink/Fan: Xiggy 1283 with retension bracket - $50.00
RAM: G-Skill 4GB (2 X 2GB) DDR2-800 - $55.00
DVD: LG DVD burner/combo drive - $25.00
OS: Win XP Pro 64-bit SP2 - $135.00
Monitor: AOC 22" LCD - $210.00
Keyboard: Saitek - $50.00
Mouse: Logitech MX revolution - $44.00
Speakers: Insignia - $34.00

I added a few dollars to each item for shipping and junk and stuff.

GRAND TOTAL = $1361.00

 

[jitpublisher]

First PC, Paid $1200 for a 486DX 33mhz rig with a 3 1/2 AND 5 1/4 floppy drive. I think it had a 240 meg hard drive, 8 meg of memory, no sound card, no modem, and a Trident VGA VESA compliant video card with 512K of memory, 14" crt. They had a deal where I worked you could buy through them, and they would hold payments out of your check for a year. The PC was a brand called "Royal", which at the time owned by our parent Company, Olivetti USA. It was a decent PC at the time, with a really nice, solid and heavy mid tower case I used for years and several upgrades.
Since then it has been all upgrades. My limit is $500 for each upgrade.
Last upgrade was a Phenom II 920, Gigabyte board, and 4 gig of DDR2 1066 that cost me $305.

 

[average joe]

I spent about $700USD for my current system about 3 years ago but I have done a few upgrades since. I would normally spend about half of that but It was one of those rare situation when I needed a new motherboard for Intel, all new RAM(DDR2), New videocard (PCI Express), and a New PSU for videocard and motherboard compatibility. That got me an e6400 with 2 gigs of ram, 160 gig SATA HD, and a ATI X1950PRO.

Since then I have added 2 more gigs of RAM and moved to Vista 64. I have replaced the video card with an Saphire 8800gt ~$110 (20 months ago)and recently grabbed a Q6600 ~$190 and an Arctic Cooler 7 PRO ~$30. Not the best cooler for over clocking quads but its quiet and not huge.

 

[alberto_lc]

850$us. C2Quad, ATI4670 1g, 4gig Ram, 500HD, Gigabyte MB, DVD-RW, 19 Inch LCD Creative 2.1 speakers, i also have it connected to my 32 lcd and a Sony receiver for 5.1 sound. great machine play most games at high quality and resolution and great for multitasking.

 

[Guest]

I spent about $1700 on it when I built it 5 years ago. The most expensive part was definitely the video card at the time at almost $400 (BFG Geforce 6800GT OC). The CPU came in somewhat close second, around $300 (Athlon 64 3500+).

Over the years I've put about $500 of upgrades into it (if you include the new monitor, 2 more hard disks, and new keyboard/mouse).
I haven't upgraded it in a while except to add another GB of RAM because it's s cheap now but, surprisingly, I've been able to play almost every game I've tried on it up until this year. 4-5 years of use out of a computer is great and I would upgrade it more except, at this point, the price/performance ratio just wouldn't be worth it compared to a new system.

 

[captaincharisma]

that's the way i am when its time for a major upgrade i usully go big. years ago i spent $2500 on a PC but my last one i built in 2007 cost 1200 and make small upgrades when i get the money

 

[Onus]

I've got about $1950K in my current rig. That doesn't include my cable modem and router, but does include the OS, a UPS, and an AIO HP5610v. It does not include shipping and extortion, or any upgraded parts. The most expensive piece was the Q9450 for $299. The most irrationally extravagant was the $150 Velociraptor, the most rationally extravagant was the $154 Antec Signature 650.

 

[Onus]

Oops, can't edit. I originally had "$2K" in there, and probably should have left it alone. I doubt even Bill Gates spent $1950K on a personal computer.

 

[allan_hm]

$2500
But isn't that powerfull rig, because here in Brazil every part of it costs at least twice the price than in USA.
Core 2 Duo 4 E8400 @ 3.7GHz
Coolermaster Hyper TX 2
EVGA 750i FTW
2x 2GB Kingston Value RAM
2x Samsung 500GB in RAID 0
XFX GeForce 9600GT Alpha Dog
DVD-RW LG SATA
Case Coolermaster CMOS 690
PS Coolermaster 650W Extreme Power
Microsoft Desktop 2000 Wireless
Samsung 931BW 19"
Pixelview Play TV Extreme
Maxell 2.1 Thin Speakers
1KVA No-break SMS

I've spend more on the motherboard: about $400 a year ago.

 

[FlayerSlayer]

I spent $1600 (including shipping) for my new system.
Antec 900 case, Core i7 920, 6 gigs DDR3-1600, 2x 750 GB HDDs, GeForce GTX 285 1GB. Built from parts off of NewEgg and Amazon.

 

[hardwarekid9756]

Ummm...good question. My computer in it's current incarnation is valued (using monetary value at time-of-purchase) at probably...i dunno...1000? Let me ruminate out-loud (so to speak).
Mobo: 55$ open box, but the first one cost like 189$
Proc: 199$
GFX: 199 initially, but then switched to a 169$ GFX
Mem: 89$ for the first set, like 200 for the second set, and am only using 100$ of it.
HDD: 99 and 79$
CDRom: 24.99
Case: Free/89$ 8 years ago (I swapped cases recently from my 2001 Aspire (now Apevia) X-Dreamer II)
KBD/Mouse: like 100? Maybe? I've burned through like 8 mouses, I think my current one was only like 38.

MOnitor: Got my 24" gateway PoS for 150 because I knew people. Got my Dell as a present, but it was valued at like 400$ back in '06 when i bought it.

Speakers were like 50$ but were valued way higher (again, knowing people who know people pays off)

Total? lemme see: Total I spent? like like 1100? Yeah, that looks about right. Total value at time of purchase, though was more like 1400ish. What's it worth now-a-days? If I can still find the parts, I just valued it at like 650ish. My how age depreciates worth.

 

[masterasia]

I've built 3 new computers in 2008 for myself. I spent about $700 on a Q9550/ASUS P5Q Pro, 8 gig Ram rig. I spent another $500 to build a Q8200/Gigabyte UDR3, 4 gig Ram rig. Then I spent $300 to build a media PC for my HDTV...AMD 64X2 5400+, 2 gigs of Ram, ASUS Board. All running a pirated version of Windows Vista. My first computer was a Power Mac. I must have paid over $2000 for that piece of junk.

 

[Guest]

$3800 Intel Qx9650 overclocked to 3.8ghz,4gigs of RAM, 2 Intel 32gig E series SSD Raid0, 2 WD velop 10Krpm 300gig, 2x Evga SSC 280gtx, all water cooled with Swiftech. Case is a Silver Stone.

My first computer was a Apple2 E with 128K of RAM and NO Hard Drive only 5 1/2 disks, my parents bought it for $3500 in 1982.

 

[kezix_69]

In 2006 I built a
1.8ghz AMD (upgraded to 2.2ghz dual core for $100 couple years ago)
2gig RAM (upgraded to 4gb a couple months ago for $60)
SAPPHIRE Radeon X1900XT 512MB (it died and I got an EVGA 8800GTS 640MB)
The video card was $390 at the time and when it died the $390 I got back got me the 8800GTS.

Total for this build was $1200 or so at the time including a new 20" LCD widescreen- I got the Asus A8N-SLI board for free from a friend that bought too many...

Just a couple months ago I built:

Asus P6T Deluxe, i7 Core 920, 6gb RAM, 300gb WD raptor
EVGA GTX295 (most expensive at $480 - then I got the backplate for $20)
Antec 900 case, BenQ 24" monitor, 720W enermax PS, new Creative speakers- total about $2,200

 

[ahslan]

built mine last summer...spent a hair over $400
Thermaltake WingRS case
AMD Athlon X2 6000+
Biostar TA770 mobo
4gb of G.Skill ram
Gigabyte ATI 4850 (using the old heatsink design which I am mad at cuz its now overheating even when i set the fan to run at 100%)
(reused old 160gb WD HDD, DVD Burner and Belkin Wifi card)
Initially i was using my 19 inch monitor but later on ot a 24" dell monitor from work for free

 

[eddieroolz]

My computer cost me $460 for the machine + screen, then I spent around $500 replacing the motherboard, GPU, PSU and heatsink over the last seven months. The GTS 250 has been awesome to every game lately, so yes, it was worth every penny.

 

[Guest]

I spent about $1000 on a Folding/BONIC rig a couple of months ago. It has a Gigabyte P45 UD3R board, E8400 at 3.2 (400x8), 8GB DDR2-800 CL5, EVGA 9800GTX+ 6-pin, 500GB WD Black HDD, and Noctua cooling. I wanted a system that is relatively low wattage and quiet yet still worth spending money on.

 

[wcarthurii]

Too much and for my tastes apparently not enough. probably 2k+ after monitor and accessories.

 

[Wgfalcon]

Current rig- Westinghouse 24" $350.00, Gigabyte ex58-ud4p $225.00,Ocz triple channel 1600 cas7 6gb kit $160.00, Core i7 920 $289.99, 2 WD 640 Blacks and 1 WD 1tb black $260.00,Antec 1200 hundred $125.00, 2 dvd writers $50, Silverstone 1000W continuous power supply $200.00, rosewill internal card reader $9.00,Coolit Domino 80.00, and Sapphire 4870 x2 $399.00 = 2117.99
one thing i will never do=spend more than $400 bucks on a video card
most expensive old school part= Western Digital 4 gb hd $389.00 from Sam's club Wharehouse. it was a good deal too

 

[buzznut]

Well, like some others my current build has taken awhile (2 years)and a few modifications and upgrades so not sure on the final tally.
Originally I prolly spent about 1000 but I've prolly also spent about that much in upgrades.

Antec 900
Antec 650 blue PS
Biostar TA790gx mainboard
4gigs ocz reaper 1066Mhz ram
AMD X4 940 CPU @3.7Ghz
Asus TOP HD 4850 500Gb video
Thermaltake chipset cooler
Coolit Domino ALC cooler
Sony DVD Rom
LG DVD super writer
Hitachi 80 Gb HD
Seagate Barracuda 320Gb HD
Acer 22inch 1680X1050 LCD widescreen monitor
Logitech G11 keyboard and G5 mouse
Various lighting and fans, cables, sleeving

By far the slowest component is the hard drive. Been trying to figure out a way to convince my wife I need a velociraptor! 😉
Spent a bunch more on a new printer, 500GB external drive, server box, and wifey's pc.

All told prolly close to $4000US in the last year on office/pc related hardware. Prolly another $500 or so on software.
That windows home server software was one of the best investments, it works great.

The thing I love about upgrades is when I do one, all the other pc's in the house benefit from the hand me downs. Win win.

 

[etrnl_frost]

I'm quite happy with my current build. It's the first one I built ground up - not using previous components

Vista Ultimate x64 + Intel DG33TL (and q6600 that I scalped) - $220
Q9650 - $320
4x2GB Crucial RAM - $70
1x320GB 7.2krpm WD HD - $40
1x500GB 7.2krpm Seagate HD - $50
BFG 9800 GX2 - $230
Antec mini P180 - $110
Antec 120mm SmartFan - $14
Zalman 9700 - $40
(19" LCD 4:3 was free, gaming keyboard and mouse from previous machine)
Net > $1100 est. Removing the cost of the q6600 that I put into my previous gaming machine, it's closer to the $900 mark. All things considered, I think I got a good deal for $900.

Building a mATX-based machine that uses SLI - Priceless hilarity.

 

[p05esto]

$3200 = Core i7, 6BG RAM, 3x1TB VRaptor drives, 26" IPS LCD included...

 

[etrnl_frost]

Aw, crud, forgot the PSU (Earthwatts 650) and the speakers (which were held over from the previous PC). PSU was about $60 if I recall. So we'll say I'm off by a cool $100.