So how much money have you spent on your computer?

[Giblet Plus!]

(maybe there's already a thread for this)

How much money have you spent buying all the parts for your computers?

Mine:

XP2100 AIUHB 0302
-$95
MSI KT3 Ultra
-$95
Stick of mT pc2100 256mb
-$50
Stick of PNY pc2100 256mb
-$30
MSI Ti4200 64mb
-$130
20x burner
-$60
16x dvd
-$30
40gb 5400 rpm Maxtor
-$80
18.4gb 15,000 rpm IBM
LSI U160 SCSI Controller
-$130
SCSI cable and terminator
-$20
Fortron 350W
-$38
Red Aluminum Dragon case
-$100 with crappy PSU
White Water Rapids waterblock
-$100
Danner Mag 5
-$50
1973 Chevy Caprice heatercore
-$30
10' of Clearflex 60
-$7
2 Delta 120mm fans
-$24
1 YS Tech 120mm fan
$11

$1080 total...

[surlyjoe]

not enough :rolleyes:

[Maxvla]

more than i ever want to know :o

[Bobby]

I don't want to add it all up or I'll be depressed.

-Bobby

[method().man]

I don't like thinking about things that'll likely end in suicide :p

[Cjwinnit]

Originally posted by Bobby
I don't want to add it all up or I'll be depressed.

-Bobby

Ditto. The phrase "Ignorance is bliss" comes to mind :)

[Aslan]

Too much, yet still, not enough....;)

[Carnil]

Around $1500 originally, and an additional $200 or so since.

[2XS]

$1200 I just finished a full system upgrade.

[L337 M33P]

£0
hehe

But soon - AMD XP Tbred B 1800 £45 ish
FX 5600 U (:rolleyes: if my father ever agrees) £160
Already have surround sound, 19" monitor, but my PC is in need of some fiddling.

[james.miller]

quite a lot. although to buy all my parts now it would cost around £550-600. Not bad for a 2.4ghz machine.
edit:
<<< white stars? must be my 4000th post. lol. didnt see that comming.....

[Chris]

I buy most if not all of my parts from various Uk forums, so i probably havnt spent that much my motherboard was a bargain a few months ago at £30. I'll quickly add up what i apid for my stuff.

Antec SX830 and Antec 300w PSU £22
Abit AT7-MAX £30
XP1600 - £30 ish cant quite remember
Crucial 2700 £22
Sunbeam Rheobus £14
Alpha Pal8045 £20
Floppy - Salvaged from a 386
Maxtor Diamond Max9 - £15 plus my old drive
CD-RW and DVD - £100 (bought years ago)

[stompah]

its not what I spent on the hardware in my case but what I spent on the hardware just laying around that upsets me most :(

[CrashOveride]

EPOX 8k5a3+
~100 I think.
1600+
40
512 RAM PC2700
~130
HDDs (2 40Gb and 1 80)
130
PSU
30
Water Cooling (soon to be here)
100
video: GeForec 4 MX, TnT-2 and crappy PCI
115
DVD and CD-RW
100
_____________
745

and that is spread out over some time too, it wasn't all at once.

[Chris]

Originally posted by stompah
its not what I spent on the hardware in my case but what I spent on the hardware just laying around that upsets me most :(

Folding Rigs!:)

[CrashOveride]

Originally posted by stompah
its not what I spent on the hardware in my case but what I spent on the hardware just laying around that upsets me most :(

Were you aware of the classifieds?;)

[IceMan3928]

its not what I spent on the hardware in my case but what I spent on the hardware just laying around that upsets me most

I feel your pain man.

Were you aware of the classifieds?

My problem is that i have lots of hardware laying around, but I have plans for all of it, Im just a bit low on time and resources to complete those plans ;)

[stompah]

Originally posted by CrashOveride


Were you aware of the classifieds?;) My ****ing girlfriend has my digital camera. And my sisters cam stinks badly.

I had most parts folding but since the breaker in my room is easily tripped with the a/c on I am down to my main rig and one extra rig. Plus I am moving soon so I will have to get rid of most stuff so I will be hitting the classies soon enough. Once I get that damn camera!

[JoT]

Several thousand dollars I know, but I really don't care to know the exact number :eek:

[Greasy Burger]

Too much:cool:

[john240sx]

Abit NF7-S = $120
XP1600 = $65 (bought last July)
Corsair TWINX 512MBPC3200LL = Free
Maxtor 40GB 7200rpm = $60
Sapphire 9700NP = $230
Zalman ZM80 heatsink = $25
Koolance PC601B case =$150
CPU 200G waterblock $35
Lite-On 24x10x40x = $150 (bought when 24x drives first came out)
Floppy drive = $10
19 inch Monitor = Free

total = $845
if i had to buy my ram and monitor i would be over $1200. not as much as i was expecting.


edit: if i were to add up all the computer componets i've bought (that i still have) i would probably hit well over $5K. i really don't want to find out how close that guess actually is though.

[Bobby]

Ok... Now I'm curious (I might regret this..)

Asus P4P800 Deluxe - $145
Intel P4 2.4c - $184
Zalman CNPS 7000ALCu - $41
MSI Ti4200 - $127
Enermax CS 10181B - $81
2 x Corsair XMS3200C2 - $230
2 x Maxtor 80gb SATA - $244
Toshiba DVD Drive 16x/48x- $42
Fortron 350w ps - $37
Antec 480w ps - $97
Panasonic floppy - $12
SB Live! 5.1 - $33
Logitech z640 - $65
Tt Hardcano 9 - $28
5 x Tt SmartFan2 - $45
3.5" Multi-card USB reader - $26
MS MM Natural keyboard (oem) - $27
subtotal - $1464

Misc wire mgmt, TIM, etc - $50
Netgear WGR614 WirelessG router - $110 (-$20 rebate)
Linksys WirelessG PC Card - $65
Canon S50 - $530
256mb CF card - $49

Grand total = $2268

I also have Twinmos PC3700 2x512mb on it's way ($250) and few other pairs of ram that I've returned and received credit for but ate about $50 on shipping.

*All the above prices were what I paid including shipping.

-Bobby
weeping quietly

[sangapski]

i stopped counting since my expenses started going over $500

now, i dont even want to know

[DoomArse]

well it originally was under $800 but since i feel the need to upgrade every month its way more that that

[jlin453]

Originally posted by Maxvla
more than i ever want to know :o

excellent answer :)

[Maxvla]

Originally posted by jlin453


excellent answer :)
longhorn praising a sooner.

hell hath frozen over ;)

btw we're going to kick your butt in football AGAIN this year :D

[Sterculus]

Waayyyy too much.
What would be disturbing is totalling all the money I have ever spent on computer hardware :eek:

[Mr. $T$]

My current system

1700+ 1.47GHz = $47
MSI KT3 Ultra 2 = $84
DVD 16x = $100 Old :o
*Dead* Sony :mad: 52x24x52x CDRW $100 POS :mad:
Case Big-o Antec Not sold any more $72
512MB Consair 2700 Cas 2 = $140
256MB PNY 2100 Cas 2.5 = FREE (not bad running at 166 FSB Cas 2 :cool: )
PNY Ti4400 128MB = $263
SB Audgy MP3+ = $100
60GB Maxtor HDD = $140
NIC = $10
Power Supply = $50
Light, Toys Rehobus, Temp readers, Cables, Fans, Heatsinks etc. = $220

Total = $1,326

[jlin453]

Originally posted by Maxvla

longhorn praising a sooner.

hell hath frozen over ;)

btw we're going to kick your butt in football AGAIN this year :D

Hm...is this before or after you lose to Oklahoma State AGAIN? ;)

[Exodus00]

Abit NF7-S - 124
Corsair 512MBXMS PC3200C2 - 128
Case - 130
DVD-ROM - 40
CD-RW - 60
GF FX5900 - 370
PSU - 120
XP2800+ - 180
floppy - 10
Nexus fanbus - 25
round cables - 30
80GB - 100$
40GB - 60$
200GB - 140
Keyboard / Mouse - 83
Mousepad - 25
Speakers - 50
Heatsink / Fan - 35
UV Fans - 10
Wire management - 10

1730$.......:eek:

280$ Viewsonic monitor on the way :rolleyes:

[Shade00]

Rig as it was a few days ago (before selling the 9500np):

1700+ - $65
8RDA - $75
512mb Mushkin PC3200 - $149 (Ouch! This used to be cheap for PC3200)
Sound Blaster Live! - Found it - literally
NIC - $25 - Phone line NIC for when I'm at home and need Internet
HP 8200i 4x CD-burner (burning at 8x though!) - $100 a few years ago
40gb HD - came in my old Sony PC, but estimate $75
floppy - it was laying around
Antec SLK2600 - $75
Radeon 9500 - $125
SK-6+ and all fans - $35
Philips 107T monitor - $150
various other peripherals - $30

That all comes out to about $904. The true value of most of this is a lot less than that, but oh well. The 9500 is getting replaced by a 9600 Pro, so that would make a few dollars difference. I expect this to go up in the near future, too, as I'm putting heatsinks all over my 8RDA and vdd modding it. I'm also switching to an AX-7 and if I can find a cheap 80mm-92mm fan adapter I'll be buying a 92mm fan to go on top of it. After that I'm getting a TV Wonder or something like that and a small LCD screen to work as a secondary monitor for watching TV and playing PS2 games. My PS2 is going inside my PC. :) *Sigh* Will it ever stop? Of course not.

Edit: Criminy, how could I forget the secondary rig?
Celeron 1.1a - $40
mobo - $15
RDRAM - traded 2 128mb sticks of SDRAM for it
Radeon 8500LE - $48
CD drive - $15
Antec SLK1600 - $48
Philips PSC604 4.1 Sound card - $25
8.4gb HD - given to me

Wow, if I sold off my primary rig and switched to my secondary, I could probably have a bunch of cash to umm... buy... stuff... like computer parts... with.

[lansens]

On a single computer or how much has been spent in the last year or two?

[XJ]

Originally posted by Chris
I buy most if not all of my parts from various Uk forums, so i probably havnt spent that much my motherboard was a bargain a few months ago at £30. I'll quickly add up what i apid for my stuff.

Antec SX830 and Antec 300w PSU £22
Abit AT7-MAX £30
XP1600 - £30 ish cant quite remember
Crucial 2700 £22
Sunbeam Rheobus £14
Alpha Pal8045 £20
Floppy - Salvaged from a 386
Maxtor Diamond Max9 - £15 plus my old drive
CD-RW and DVD - £100 (bought years ago)

UK forums? link me please duder :)

[don256us]

I have yet to stop spending money on my computer. It's more like an evolving entity than a computer. It eats all of the electricity I can give it and gobbles cash to round out its diet.

I would guess $3k + in the years. About $350 for water cooling alone.

[JimmyG]

For those of you lamenting about money spent on hardware lying around, my answer to you is EBAY!

[tweakerxp]

I spent $2,500 CDN w/ tax on my last computer.

[rogerdugans]

I can't count that high ;)

Seriously, my stuff has been a steady progression for quite a few years.....

All told I would guesstimate something around 10K in 10 years.
Multiple rigs for much of that time and it includes ALL computer related stuff.
About 15 desktop pcs, two laptops, 1 HPC, 2 digital cameras and various smaller ticket items.

[Disputant]

Stopped counting long ago.

My original machine has somehow turned into three. Eventually after enough upgrading there is enough parts in the closet to build more computers.