The most expensive!

[pauldh]

It was alot harder to build them yourself back in those days. Plus it cost a fortune to buy the parts. Sure later days, building them yourself is usually the best route to go, occasionally it's not the cheapest though, depending on the configuration. I haven't considered buying except when I see a refurbished system that I can buy for little more than the cpu alone. Even some new Dell deals have been priced so low after rebate sometimes I have been tempted to buy one, pull the fast P4 and dump a slow cpu in it to sell cheap. Haven't done that, but was tempted a couple times many months ago.



ABIT IS7, P4 2.6C, 512MB Corsair TwinX PC3200LL, Radeon 9800 Pro, Santa Cruz, TruePower 430watt

 

[flamethrower205]

Try $1000 for 512MB ram...

SEX is like math. Add the bed, subtract the clothes, divide the legs, and hope you dont multiply

 

[Schmide]

386dx2 20mhz, 66mb hd, tower case 300w PS, circa 1988 $3500. Oh the layers of dust it is collecting back in the old basement. It has a 32 bit ISA slot to boot.

Dichromatic for your viewing plesure...

 

[Clob]

I do realize that I was screwed out of my cash for my system that I baught from a reseller.

He charged me $3600 for this:
Asus P4T533-C mobo
2.8 northwood (533)
1gig of 1066 rambus
Radeon 9700 Pro
WD 80gig 8meg cache
Veiwsonic E90FB 19"
Creative Inspire 5.1 5700 (digital)
Audigy 5.1 (regular only) First one to come out!
16x Samsung DVD rom
48x16x48 MSI CDW
250 meg zip.
MSI Tvcard

I think I got swindled out of about $1000 for this system. I feel very stupid now. Only of my first computer excitment didnt overwhelm me and if i only thaught about what i was buying. I baugh this in october of '02

"If youre paddling upstream in a canoe and a
wheel falls off, how many pancakes fit in a doghouse? None! Icecream doesn't have bones!!!"
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Clob on 04/11/04 03:06 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[speeduk]

9700pro $560
3200 athlon 64 $385
2x512mb OCZ 3200 $330
MSI K8T mobo $185
Antec 480w psu $155
Antec amg case $130

Will be spending $500-$700 on new gfx card soon!


<A HREF="http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=7737657" target="_new"> My rig </A>

 

[flamethrower205]

fug yeah, me an u brova!! The more u spend the longer u'll love it lol

SEX is like math. Add the bed, subtract the clothes, divide the legs, and hope you dont multiply

 

[P4Man]

>jesus you payed 3000 for that? dude ...

$3.000 sounds like a good price, I know I paid more for my Zenith 286 "workstation" *cough*. But I think I got it a bit earlier as well, the 286 was brand new. And I got one of those shiny hercules monochrome graphics first, upgraded to EGA (ungodly expensive), and even ended up with one of those miraculous VGA cards. The worst part was that my friends' Commodore Amiga could do tons of things I could not (multitask, GUI, sound, "high res" graphics,..) for a fraction of the cost.

> always build for yourself, youll.. well you see now dont
>you

DIY wasnt an option back then. things werent as standardized as they are now, and many (most ?) components could not even be bought seperatly; newegg.com didnt exist yet. You just bought a complete machine from IBM, Zenith, Transdata, Bull or whatever. I'm not even sure memory was interchangeable, and if it was, it just wasnt done. Needed a RAM upgrade ? Order from IBM and pay month salary for 512 Kb EMS that sat on a board as big as a full sized ISA card

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[phial]

i was talking baout the 3000$ Alienware P4B 2.8ghz that he bought...


😛


but yea i realize that about back then.. my step dad had picked up a 386 back in 1995 or something. a 2500$ word processor

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[Johanthegnarler]

No dude.. when that was out it was definately l33t. Just.. things get so outdated so fast.. and i was still too scared of building a computer. That was with a 17 inch lcd viewsonic monitor flat screen. So all in all i still use the flat screen*yuck.
I was just too stupid.. and to think that was only like a year and a half ago. I've learned a lot from then. And even found a few things i'm extremely interested in. So even though I did waste my 3 grand.. i've gained a lot of knowledge and possibly a career.

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46,510 , movin on up. 48k new goal. Maybe not.. :/

 

[rcj187]

worst value was 128MB stick pc133 ram in 96-97.. cost about £100 and i had to drive to london to get it. it died about 6months later! most expensive was my old geforce3 which was £240 damn good card tho

 

[TheRod]

my most useless investment...an ls-120 drive

My story looks like yours, I bought an Internal SCSI / ZIP 100 Drive with a pack of 5 Zip disk. At that time it cost me about 250$CA for the drive alone. I don't remember the price of the ZIP disk... But I haven't use this zp drive much and I really don't know what to do with it, no one wants this today!

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