QOTD: How Much Did Your Computer(s) Cost?

[mricci]

I just finished my new build. It cost about $1500 normally. I got a good price on the motherboard and processor so i got it for just under $1200 for just the tower.

 

[matchboxmatt]

My little brother's computer cost around $350 for the tower; $570 for the widescreen and peripherals. I hooked up my old 8600 GTS to it to cut the cost.

 

[Guest]

The first one I got was around $1600 - a C2D around 2 yrs ago when they came out. The second was was a year after that and around $900. They are both self-built.

 

[Guest]

oh yeah!!!!!!!!! in 1996 i spent 3200$ US for a DELL XPS R350
It had a pentium 2 at 350mhz a 15 gig hard drive, 4X DVD player a 100mb Zip drive, ATI RAGE pro Turbo and a 17inch CRT. It was pretty bad ass when first bought back then....now i cant do shit with it 🙁
Oh yeah it had Windows 98se but hey even to this day it still works...kind of. haven't bought a computer since

 

[matchboxmatt]

As for mine, it's a mix of new and old, and is constantly changing. It cost me about $350 for the tower and rough components, $100 for the speakers, $180 for the E8400 CPU, $170 for the ATI 4850 card later on, $260 for the screen, and $60 for the Seagate drive. I bought each part at a different time, based on whatever I wanted more of, but I probably dumped over $1000 into it over the years.

 

[Upendra09]

Laptop: 850 on sale from 1000, then went back for 50 dollar sale, so really a 750 dollar HP, i know i am a penny pincher, saved 50 though

Desktop: 1100, 8 years ago, really got ripped off though,
256 megs of RAM
1.2 ghz processor
40 gig HDD

 

[nachowarrior]

800 in the box last march:
gigabyte m57slis4
8 gigs ddr2 800
gigabyte hd 3870
dual gigabit pci ethernet cards by trendnet
arctic cooler freezer pro 64
althlon x2 5000+ black edition
samsung dvd burner
raidmax smilodon case w/500w psu
500 gig hd
320 gig boot hd
card reader

outside of box:
belkin n52te
logitech x-540's
logitech s510 keyboard
micro$haft sidewinder mouse (shut up, it was on sale)
infocus x1a DLP projector
samsung 2253lw monitor
acer something or other 1680x1050 19" monitor
logitech headset
ultimate ears earbuds (freebie! woohoo!)
got nwn 2 with vid card.
logitech gamepad
missing anything?

well I have dumped a total of about 1600 or so maybe 1800 into the whole thing.

bet you guys wish you could get that deal! 😛 if you really wanna crap your pants, go check the price on the earbuds i got free. ultimate ears is what they're called. mine are blue. 😛

 

[nachowarrior]

sorry for double post. no edit. i'll just tell you seeing as how they have huge range of products. new on ebay is 290 us dollars for the ones i got sitting in my drawer.

 

[Guest]

Wow, do i really have to be that guy?

I spent about 8 grand on my computer.

12 gig ram
975 core i7 (clocked at 3.8)
dual intel 160gb ssds, in raid 0
dual evga hydrocopper geforce 295s
hydrocopper evga mobo
seagate 1.5 tb for storage
dual cooling towers for the liquid cooling, 1 loop for the 2 vid cards, 1 loop for the cpu and mobo
dual 22 inch screens
plus case/psu/blueray drive/ normal other parts

yah, i know the cpu will clock higher, im lazy, really only wanted the liquid cooling for the silence

 

[maximus559]

[citation][nom]spanky deluxe[/nom]I spent enough on my computer to make my penis appear larger. I also bought some go faster stripes to stick on the side of my car and bought a three wolf and moon t-shirt to maximise my pulling power.Not really the best QOTD since not a single comment poster will care in the slightest what other people put...[/citation]

It's possible that Tom's Hardware will use this poll to do some statistical research (e.g., average price, uppper / lower limits, other stats stuff). So not really that bad a question - just not one that'll provoke any in-depth discussion. And I can't remember exactly, but I think my current build was somewhere around $1000 for:

Antec 900 Case
Asus P5Q-PRO Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
ATI Radeon HD 4850
4 GB Corsair DDR2 800
500 GB Seagate HD
Logitech G11 Keys
Logitech G9 Laser Mouse
Samsung SyncMaster 710n

 

[rigaudio]

$1500 for the computer, $1000 for two 24" monitors with respective desk-mounted arms. Cheapest monitors and arms I could find :\

 

[Guest]

Payed 300 for my Athlon XP2600, + 512Mb Ram + case & 350W powersupply; later upgraded with a Radeon 9500 card for an additional 275.
Only later I upgraded to 1GB RAM DDR2 (80).
During the course of a year I spend about $600 on harddrives, especially those of Maxtor seemed to crash in my case, mostly because of the heat inside the box.
That's where I opened my case and altered the cooling.
Air was sucked in from the drive bay, passed the HD's, to the CPU.
from the bottom air passed the graphics card to the CPU, where it was sucked out by the powersupply,and ejected upward.

My computers before that where given by my dad.

Later I bought my first $800 Sony Vaio. It supposed to be a VGN-C140G, on 60% off, but they shipped me a VGN-C190G. I did not complain,and the newer type was slightly better!
It did have a slight discoloration in the screen though.

My girl bought her laptop $1000,Sony Vaio, next gen. of mine. Both where C2duo's with 2Gig ram.
hers 2Ghz, mine 1,6Ghz.
She also has a 200Gig HD, while I only have a 120Gig HD.

The monster has held strong for over 3 years now.

I also bought an Acer EeePc 701 for 275 (+25 customs/import taxes).

So it's pretty hard to say how much I bought my pc's; since most of the time I'd be upgrading my older gear.
At this moment I only own my Vaio laptop. When finances go better, we might buy ourselves a Phenom II desktop, depending on what is cheaper, I might build it from parts; to play some older games on (in the likes of wow).
The specifications might differ with time, but if I'd be buying a new PC, it'd be a Phenom 2, with 4Gig Ram, Win7, and a radeon 4770,4670, or 4850.

I'm also thinking about an atom platform as hardware router and fileserver. It's good on electricity, can download bittorrent with ease, and rout external HD's to my wireless router.
That should costme no more than $300 to $500 for perhaps the ion platform.
The ion platform will (hopefully) perform better than my Sony Vaio laptop to game on.
With a lower cpu, but better graphics card...

 

[Glorian]

Both my systems are well over 2 years old. Payed about 1300-1500 for the desktop and 1500 for the laptop.

Desktop
E6600 Core2
P965 intel MoBo
2gigs of ram (4gigs now)
250g WD Caviar
7900GT(9600gt now)
Antec case and psu
22" Viewsonic
G15 keyboard

17" Laptop
1.73 Core2, 2g ram, 160 HD and 7600 mobile gpu

disparately want to upgrade.

 

[naidnerb]

Mine was a $500 netbox first.I have changed the mobo with one of larger onboard video ($100). Went for a htpc then and spent 130 on a silent 9600gt oc. I fall for gaming and spend another $500 to buy new cpu, mobo, ram, hdd and got a better 2.1 as a bonus.

Finally I couldn't resist trying a new Radeon 4770 for $130. I have spent $1250 on a modest, green gaming rig that gets 6300 3dmarks of vantage.

 

[mangoman232]

I spent $1,130.92 to build my fifth upgrade, including a new HAF 932 case. I'm still waiting on the Mobo to come back repaired by Asus, a P6T Deluxe V2. The Corsair 850TX PSU also failed within the first 10 minutes. That came back last week. The third one, by the way. Sheesh.

 

[AdamB5000]

[citation][nom]soldier37[/nom]I upgrade components every 2 years, the video card every year and a half now. So overall right now as it stands I would say $3000. Just went quad core and Vista 64 bit. About to upgrade my ATI 4870 1gb to a 5800 series this fall and Windows 7. So theres another $500+ right there. LOL[/citation]

Can you sell me your old, outdated 4870? That'll be a nice upgrade from my 7800GT.

 

[Gin Fushicho]

Mine was only 100 dollars , because I got most of my parts FREEEEEEE! =D Only cuz I always helped my friends with they're computers though. xD

ASUS Crosshair 590 SLI

AMD 5600+ Windsor

Corsair Dominators D9s ddr2 800 4 gigs

EVGA GTX260 SSC 55nm

Xclio case with 250mm fans

and various other stuff. x3

 

[silverwings95]

I recently had to replace my broken Toshiba laptop a in hurry at a time when money was/is tight, so no $1500 or more machines this time around.
A Toshiba Satillite A505 S6960 for $679 hit the spot just right. The only thing it lacked was Bluetooth and a larger HD would have been nicer. But I already had a new 500G HD and a Bluetooth from my other laptop so no problem.

 

[rambo117]

so far, ive dumped around $1500 into my gaming rig. love every bit of it... do wish i had a pair of 4890s though... *drools*

gawd, this is such an expensive hobby

 

[XD_dued]

Built it last October for $850 for tower, phenom (I 😀) gaming rig. Lost $100 dollars in value, its sad how fast it happens DX

 

[ravewulf]

$1200 ish for the desktop, monitor, speakers, and printer (3 years ago, big overhaul/upgrade) plus around $150-$200 on upgrades since then (graphics card and more HDD space).

Then a $1000 convertable laptop/tablet (touch screen + pen) for my university classes and some art for fun

 

[theubersmurf]

In the short term, 1200 USD. Over the long term about 2000 USD. i7 920 (bought in the first month of their release...paid too much for ram) MSI Eclipse, Corsair XMS 3 1333, GTX 260, Asus xonar dx, pcpower and cooling silencer 750, thermaltake armor +, M-Audio studiophile 30, an Asus 1680x1050 monitor, g15, g13, gigabyte ghost mouse, Zerotherm Zen cpu cooler...may buy a corsair g50

 

[cadder]

I built a new desktop about 5 months ago, Q9400 at 3.4GHz, 4GB ram, WinXP, but with a mundane graphics system, for about $800.

I bought a new Dell Latitude laptop 2.53GHz in December from the outlet for about $1000.

My 5 year old laptop was a gift so I don't know what it cost.

 

[Mulder19]

~600 for all but monitors which I already had.

E5200 @ 4ghz
2gig 1066
400gig HD(refurbished)
XP pro and 7
Radeon 4850(used @ $70)

 

[lifelesspoet]

2500 all together. While you didn't request specs, I'll post for comparison, its 18 months old and probally has another 18 left before needing replacement.
asus striker II
4 gigs mushkin redline
2 500 gig sata drives, 1 120 gig sata
2 geforce 8800gts 512
core2 quad 6600
1000w modular psu3
zalman cpu cooler
23 inch 1080p monitor
modded generic case
creative 7.1 speakers
2 dvd burners