How Expensive Was Your PC?

Was yours a pre-built system per chance?
You will always pay a premium for those. Plus the price I posted doesn't include my Samsung 957DF 19" monitor, Logitech MX700 and cordless keyboard. That adds about another £300 (~$480) = $2169, but then again we do tend to have higher prices in ripoff Britain...

My system was custom built for me by MicronPC . I had it shipped from the US to UK. That price is without monitor (had one already)

the dell work bougth we mwas about $2300 US

my old VAIO was $1500 US @ the time (was $2100 on sony's site)

my very first system a PIII 533 - was about $2k Canadian when i got it - i remember i paid about $500 canadian for a 40g HD - GOD how prices have dropped..lol

If were go into work machines
-1.7Ghz P4 Dell Inspiron 8200
-512mb PC2100
-GF4Go 32mb
-30Gb HD

Was about £1800 at the time when it was bought for me ($2844 dollars)

I'm not gonna waste the time to list my specs, they are in my profile, the first one listed, just built it. Actually bought the parts over the last few months, finding good deals where I could, had some parts already, and best estimate I could come up with on the cost was ~$1400, because I couldn't find some of my receipts and had to guess. The second system listed was $1300 over a year ago.

I'm not going through all my other stuff

Got my for about $1400

2000XP Athlon
Vol 7 Cu+
512MB Kingston 333MHZ
MSI KT4V
80.0GB Western Digital 80JBB
Yamaha CRW-F1E
Sony DVD 16X
Floppy FDD
Hercules ATI Radeon 8500LE 64MB
Hercules Fortissismo III 7.1
Philips 107T4
Altec Lansing 641
Micorsoft Multimedia Keyboard
Microsoft Intelli Optical Mouse
ICUTE Mod Case with 350W PSU & 4Fans

well i jsut bought mine like 2 weeks ago and i payed a helfty price for it

2.8 p4
1 gig of ddr333
soundbalster Audigy play EX
160GB Sata
ThermalTake Xaser II Black
ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 9700PRO
LG 16X DVD
LG 52x24x48
Logitech Z680
thermaltake 7+

for about 3200 plus

apple 20 inch stuido display LCDcame out to be 6500 for my new comp ....

I think the last big mutation that my system went through was the upgrade to a 1.2Ghz Athlon, 256MB RAM, and an MSI K7T Turbo mobo for around $300. I've added another 256MB since then for around $45 and an ATI Radeon 9100 128MB for $80. Further mutations are planned from now until HL2 release or D3 release! They include:

Audio Upgrade:
5 2-way speakers (DIY) - $70 each - $350 total
1 surround sound receiver - $150ish
subwoofer with amp (DIY) - $140ish
Audigy2 sound card - $78
Audio Total: $718

Video Upgrade:
Undecided - $300ish likely

Main System Upgrade:
P4 2.4Ghz 800Mhz FSB - $187
Intel 865PE-based mobo - $150ish
512MBx2 Corsair XMS 3200C2 DDR RAM - $190
Windows XP Pro (OEM) - $143
Antec True 480W w/blue LED PSU - $100
System Total: $770

That's comes too.... $1800ish

I'm hoping to overclock in the 3.0Ghz range.

FYI: I don't think any of the commercially-available 5.1 computer speakers sound good enough for the money. I'm also having fun building the speakers as a hobby! Most importantly, my wife hasn't added up the total cost for the audio upgrade!

What my computer has cost me: Way too much!
(But then again, I allways think it costs way too much)


This list isn't too detailed, as I don't have the receits here (they're in my apartment)...

Asus A7V8X - Gold / Deluxe - 240$
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ - 140$
1gb (2x 512) TwinMos PC 2700 - 195$
Radeon 9700 pro - 462$ (this was cheap in norway, iwth prices around 300$ in the US)
450W PSU - 60$
IBM Deskstar 75GXP 60GB - 165$
IBM Deskstar 60GXP 75 GB - 180$
Maxtor (sorry, can't remember type) 80 GB (8mb cache) - 165$
Logitech Cordless Optical mouse MX700 - 100$

Total: 1707$

Not too bad actually...
But not exactly cheap either...

I'm going to build 2 computers next week for less than this, and that's including lcd screens for both of them.....

I couldn't even guess, it's just a continuous evolution. A part here, a part there...when I get enough spare parts then another computer gets built out of the leftovers. All in all I've spent a lot because the first one cost about $2000 at the time.

MB Epox RDA3+ 145$
CPU AMD 2200+ 92$
512 DDR400 Samsung 107$
Maxtor 40gb 7200 82$
Logic chasis with L&C UPS 400W 44$
Leadtek Ti4200 128mb 163$
Spire WhisperRock III 11$
2 Spire chipset fans 9$
Logitech iTouch keyboard 20$
Logitceh optical wheel mouse (B69 think) 17$

total: 690$
(i have old 17" sony trinitron 1024x768@72hz monitor and LG CD-RW 16/10/40)

i need to buy:
17" ADI MicroScan F750 (Dimondtron) 221$
512 DDR400 Samsung 107$
DVD ROM Teac 49$

Total sum: 1067$


Place: east Europe, Croatia (small contury for great holiday -CNN, small contury for great comp shopping -me :grinthumb )

I'm building a new PC by next week since my mobo died one month past warranty. Can you believe that.

I intend to spend roughly $300 for AMD cpu, mobo, may be 2 gigs of ram, and a video card. I've been doing a lot of research. It wouldn't be so bad if I had a lot of money but that's my budget and I want to make sure I get the most from it.

I got a hand-me-down IBM laptop from my mom so that was $0.

Planning on spending $1500 on a new computer soon though. Check out my specs.

$1,200 discounted ( Huge Discount )
x2 7800 ultra nvidia cards
3700+ 3.5 amd 64-bit
160 gb HD
20 inch Flat LCD
Water Cooling
4 gigs of ram

i only spend £200 on my PC but then again it's probably crap compeared to yours

AV8 - 3rd eye
amd athlon 64 (Venice) 3000+
geforce mx4000
160gig hd

the monitor i stole of my mums old comp so that proabably saved me quite a lot

Oh yeah, well, my emachines cost about 450 a year or two ago, beat that!

much deeper

This began life as a Compaq bundle from Fry's and became:
M$ Wireless Natural Multimedia keyboard
M$ Wireless Intellimouse 2.0 59.00
Aspire X-Finity ATX case 68.00
ASUS P5P800 99.00
Intel P4 640 HT 200.00
2x1024 A Data DDR400 (matched) 179.00
NEC DVD ND3540-A 50.00
ASUS CRW-4832AS 30.00
500W modular PSU 65.00
Arctic Cooler Freezer7 HSF 30.00
CoolerMaster Aerogate III Fan controller 30.00
Western Digital WD2500JB CaviarSE 130.00
Maxtor Diamondmax 10 120 GB 75.00
Soundblaster Audigy 2ZS 80.00
Logitech x530 5.1 60.00
Radeon 9250SE(?) 40.00
WinFast 2000XP Pro TV tuner/capture 40.00

$1535 USD------------ did manage to build one for my mom with pieces out of these upgrades; however,LET'S TALK ABOUT SOFTWARE!!

Not really, that's enough. Oops- add $300.00 for 2 Epson all-in-ones. :dead:

Approximately 3500 US. Give or take a few.

My core components are...

A8n32-SLI Deluxe
FX-60
7800 GTX KO 512
Zalman Resenator
Soundblaster Xtreme Music

factor in the creme de la of the market's HD's, Optical Drives, Memory, PSU, mouse(G5 FTW), and case <----These things are surprisingly expensive.

OS and MS-Office were free since I am part of Microsoft's Partner program.

Still saving for that 24inch Dell flatscreen. Using a CRT at the moment.