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Phenom II 940
Radeon 4870x2+4870 in trifire
8GB DDR2
6TB HDDs
Bose Companion 5 Series II speakers
Thermaltake Spedo advance case
850W PSU
ASUS M3A79-T DELUXE mobo
20" 4:3 Dell monitor, 24"wide Acer, 23"wide acer, 26" Wide Viewsonic quad monitor when not using CrossfireX mode.

Around $3K altogether
 
Probably spent about $1500 on what's currently in the tower.

Antec 900
ASUS P6T Deluxe
Intel Core i7 920
G.SKILL 6GB 1600 DDR3
ZALMAN 9900 HSF
ATi Radeon 4870 1GB
Intel X25-M G2 160GB
WD Caviar Black 1TB
Corsair 620W HX
 
[citation][nom]Tech-Boy[/nom]Mine Costed right around $850 for just the tower.[/citation]

Costed? Are you 3? Cause my 4 year old speaks better.

I don't know the exact amount. In the last 4.5 years I'd say just over 10k on my new computer, the wifes new computer, the wifes new laptop, my new laptop, and all my servers' upgrades.

Other than capacity or video card upgrades, when I build a new machine it's always around 1500 for some reason....
 
This question always makes me go "huh?" Its a work in progress, i'm always upgrading basically until I can't anymore and then start fresh. My current build has prolly totaled about $2000.00, but the nice thing about upgrading my machine is everyone else in the family gets my hand me downs, so they get upgraded too!

I haven't bought a prebuilt pc in 11 years. Except for my laptop, which I have since upgraded. Apple can get bent.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate that there are options to the pc out there and I support a persons right to choose. But in my opinion you are paying for a logo; it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Plus they STILL can't do MS office right!

Oh, yeah..I forgot, I hate Apple! Screw them!
 
$1500 USD from newegg at the end of May. Includes the following components:

AMD Phenom II X4 940 @ 3.8GHz
Asus M4N72-E SLI motherboard
2x EVGA GTX 275 in SLI
4GB OCZ DDR2-1200 FLEX memory
2x Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200.12 in RAID0
Creative X-Fi Titanium
Corsair 750w PSU
Samsung 22X DVDRW
Asus 24" widescreen 2ms LCD @ 1920x1200
Rosewill midtower .8mm heavy-duty case
 
spent $750CDN to get a taste of crysis. Now a year later the net total is ~900CDN after final upgrading.
MSI K9N2 SLI 750asli. Athlon X2 6400+. 2Gb Corsair800mhz. UltraLSP 650W. 9800GT, 8500GT for physx.. {yeah.. pointless)
 
I have no idea how much I've spent overtime on it bit I'm sure it excedes $1500, probably more. Much of my parts were bought a while back though. I'm upgrading and making it last as long as possible.

Antec NineHundred
Corsair TX650W PSU
ASUS M2N32-SLI
AMD Athlon X2 6000+
4GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800 RAM
EVGA GeForce GTX 275 896MB (has been SLI'd 7600GT's and single 8800GT)
SoundBlaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Profess1onal PCI-e
320GB Seagate
250GB WD
2x500GB LaCie Externals
Sony Optiarc 22X DVD Burner
Lite-On 16x DVD Burner
Acer P243w 24" LCD (bought it a while back so I paid more)
Acer AL1917 19" LCD (ditto)
Logitech G11 Keyboard
Logitech MX518 Mouse
Logitech Z4 Speakers
 
I spent about R15000 south african bokkies on my pc so far.. Waiting for dx11 before i go all out again. Got a 940 p2, asus m3a79t deluxe 23" hd monitor and all the bells and whistles..
 
Nice to see a lot of PII builds here.

Antec 900
Antec 650 Blue PSU
BIOSTAR TA790GX mobo
AMD PII X4 940 @ 3.7 Ghz
ALC Domino cooler
4 GB OCZ Reaper 1066Mhz
HD 4850
22" Acer monitor
Sony DVD rom
LG DVD burner
320Gb SATA II Barracuda 7200.10

The bottleneck is the hard drive I am hoping to replace with a 1Tb WD black soon. I was hoping the prices would come down on the SSD's but so far not enough for this poor boy.
 
The following is my build, it cost around CAD$5200:

CPU: Intel Core i7 965 @ 3.2GHz
Mobo: ASUS Rampage II Extreme
RAM: G.SKILL Pi Black DDR3-1600 PC3-12800 6GB CL 8-8-8-21
Vcard: Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 X2
HDD: Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB (2)
DVD: LG GH22NS30 DVD Writer
PSU: Corsair HX1000W
OS1: Windows XP Professional
OS2: Windows Vista Home Premium x64
Case: Cooler Master HAF 932
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 245T
Keyboard: Razer Lycosa Mirror
Mouse: Razer Lachesis Wraith Red
Mousepad: Razer Destructor
 
Can't say exactly how much $$ I spent but I went from adm64 3500+ to e4300 to q6600 to e8400... adding memory with almost every upgrade and adding a MB at the same time with a new PSU...
Video range from 7600gt to 9800GX2.
Adding HDD when needed.
But always keeping my 17" lcd with a kvm.
Maybe $8000 over the past few years for my desktops and a $800 laptop.
 
There's no way around it Toms. You suck now that you've started promoting Mac OS X instead of hardware. I remember when you used to find us the best hardware for the best price. Now you just flame your own website with stupid OS X crap and try to convince your users to switch to the Mac inferior overpriced hardware. Seems like an oxymoron on this site...
 
Counting everything; the EVGA X58 Classified MB, Intel I7-965, twin EVGA GTX295's, 6-gig of Patriot DDR3-1600 memory, Cooler Master HAF932 case, Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme cooler, Silverstone 1000 watt PSU, Saitek Cyborg gaming keyboard, TV tuner, Hauppage HD PVR, twin, 24 inch monitors, numerous case fans and wires, 400 watt sound system, it all comes to somewhere north of $6500.
 
I have so much stuff its hard to keep track of it all but i do try and upgrade my main rig and gaming rig at least every 2 years with small upgrades in the middle. For gaming rig i try to upgrade video card like every 10-14 months, for the main rig i try and just upgrade mem if needed or proc not much as this machine is usually used for everyday computing.

HTPC:

E4500 Core 2 Duo, Foxconn mATX mobo i had lying around 2GB Ram,Pioneer Bluray Drive,ATI HD2400,250gb HD on a TT Mozart with Vista Ultimate. About 400 bucks since i had the HD mobo and proc i took out of a vostro i upgraded with a E6550 i did OC the e4500 a bit to make bluray smoother so far been runnning for more than ayear and a half and all is stable and running great.

Server: Used to have a older DFI lanparty with a opteron 148 and 5x250gb raid 5 and a 6800 gfx card and windows 2003 all leftover parts from previous builds now replaced with an Aspire h430 home server:$400 extra 2x1TB hd for server $160

Gaming PC:built over 2 yrs ago from scratch. CM690 case with q6600 EVGA780i Mobo, previous 680, 4gb Reaper OCZ ram ddr2, dual 9800gtxSLI now have 260core216 SLI and have next upgrade on stby as have bought i920, and 6gb XMS dominator ddr3 ram in a month or so ill buy an x58 mobo and will keep this for another 18 months minimum. Still have raid0 250gbx2.bout 1000 have pci xfi FAtality

Main rig: Core2 duo e6400ocd, 975x mobo, hd3650, dvdrw , 250gb raid 1 with 500gb and 400gb hd. Lian Li Case

Main rig replacement: Already built still not in service.Core 2 duo 8400 4gb ddr2 TT lanboxlite case with700w modular PS, HD4850 bought for cheap from a friend overkill for nongaming computer proably will replace with 3650 for power savings. 2x750gb raid1 and 1tb drive dvdrw, xfx mATX geforce9300 mobo. bout 600 bucks.

Laptops: Wife has Vaio N series bought in BEst Buy for 500 bucks but now can get better offeres for same or less if we only knew then bought last december. Asus V2s Business laptop for work company bought 1300. Asus A8Js gave to sister bought 2 yrs ago for 1350, Asus eeepc 1000h use for moving around the house and traveling light..450....Macbook core duo bought for 400 bucks used as this was my 1st mac use it for ableton live. Am currently writing this form a MAcbookpro unibody 1800 used for djing and somewhat light usage.

I think that covers mainly everything.Im trying to cut back on spending for the next year as i believe my rigs will be good enough to lat the next 2 yrs except for maybe and video card upgrade along the line for the gaming rig.
 
around $1900 CAD plus taxes and shipping over the last 4 months...

i920 + TR Ultra-120 1366
EVGA X58 SLI
12GB DDR3 + active ram cooler
2x GTX260 core216
WD 1TB black HD
SG 1.5TB 7200.11 HD
TX850w
HAF 932
G15 gaming KB

already had 3x500GB SG 7200.12 HDs, DVD-RW, Acer 32" LCD TV/monitor, logitec 5.1 surround, Mx518 mouse, Vista64 Ultimate and XP64.
 
I bought the first Sony FW model to hit shelves. Cost me $999.99 at the time. (lol, the survey is right!)

That said. Especially given that the MBP refresh didn't arrive for several more months, it kicked the teeth out of the $2,000 MBP and was even better than the $2,500 MBP in some ways.

Over a year letter, there have been no major advancements in laptop technology. P8400 is still top notch. Unbeatable purchase for the price.
 
About 1200-1300 in my core i7/radeon 4870 build a few months ago, but the upgrade is coming next month, so another 500-800 dlls in another Radeon 4870, another 6GB RAM, a nice CPU cooler, and a BD ROM and maybe a middle end SSD, so in the end somewhere between 1600 and 2000 dlls, I want to see any mac performing better than my buid at this (or any) price tag.
 
The computer that I built cost me around $1200

Core i7 920 @ 3.5GHz on stock cooling
2x EVGA GTX 275's in SLI
ASUS P6T mobo
Antec 900
Corsair TX 750w psu
Corsair XMS3 DDR3-1333 ram (3GB)
WD 320GB SATA HD 16mb cache

Pretty nice Core i7 SLI rig for just a little over $1k, only things I want to upgrade are the ram, hdd, and possibly the cpu cooler
 
In DEC 08, I bought the i7 with 6 gb of ram and duel GTX260's. The harddrives are an MLC 60gb SSD and a Seagate 500gb. Gigabyte MB with Corsair powersupply and a Coolermaster case. The crown jewel to this pc is either the Blu-RAY writer or the Thermaltake extreme cooler. Well it could be the 24 inch 1080p monitor.

Grand TOTAL 2164.13

SO STICK THAT UP YOUR A--, APPLE

Regards
i7 JOINT, PRO GAMER
 
$1500 self built 5 years ago next computer i am buying it to much of a pain to self build when i can pay $50 and get it built by them and have a 3 year warrenty now days
 
$1500 self built 5 years ago next computer i am buying it to much of a pain to self build when i can pay $50 and get it built by them and have a 3 year warrenty now days
 
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