Weekend Open Forum: How much have you spent on your PC?

[Railman]

My current set up cost me £832.15 for a i5 set up. Won't go into details but purchased good quality components and the cost does not include recycled items such as case, keyboards etc. Cost will go up as I intend to purchase graphics card.

 

[shafi]

Well I have
i7 2600k on cm hyper 212 evo
8 gb ddr3 1333 mhz ram
1 tb wd ezex
2x gigabyte gtx 770 4gb in sli
tx 850w v2
razer deathadder collector+logitech g500s
corsair vengeance k95
x fi titanium with audio technica ath m50 and panasonic rp htf 600s
a samsung s23a700d

And a macbook pro retina late 2013 15 inch with nvidia gt 750m

 

[Guest]

CPU: Core i5 4570 - $206
Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-H81M-S2PV - $70
RAM: Apacer 4GB DDR3 1600MHz - $35
HDD: Toshiba 1TB - $65
ODD: Asus - $22
Monitor: ViewSonic 20" - $99
GPU: Sapphire R7 260X OC (2GB) - $168
PSU: Corsair VS450 (450W) - $43
Case: $25
Total: $733
It's a really cheap build. And I don't live in the US, so prices are a little different here. GPUs are really expensive here.

 

[davislane1]

I run a laptop. Over the past three years, I've spent about $50 on it. Upgraded my HDD to a 750gb Western Digital Black, when the previous Samsung drive began failing. Because storage.

 

[Rippleman]

$100 on a q6600 box 2.4ghz/4gigs/300 gig hd
$150 on 24" monitor
$120 on aspire 8920 laptop

cheap and all works perfect for me

 

[misor]

If I'm not mistaken, the only pc parts I bought:
1. this year is a 1tb Toshiba hdd to replace my dead two 3tb Seagate hdd.

.............

Is that the right way round? I would hardly consider a 1tb drive a replacement for two 3tb drives.

hahaha. it's the only thing I can afford because I'm saving up to buy:
a. Samsung series 3 gaming monitor 23" full hd, 2ms response time, around 13000php
b. NVidia gtx 860 or gtx 870, depending on what is offered first by my favorite computer store. (15000-20000php allocated)
total money reserved: 30000php (Philippine peso, 1$ u.s. ~43.45php)

the extra money I will raise after my priority items is for Samsung 840/850 ssd. I have not yet experienced ssd highway.

 

[misor]

If I'm not mistaken, the only pc parts I bought:
1. this year is a 1tb Toshiba hdd to replace my dead two 3tb Seagate hdd.
2. last year is an asus gtx650.

...have yet to buy Samsung series 3 gaming monitor 23" full hd, 2ms, now available at local store.

Samsung series 5 gaming monitor 24" full hd, 2ms is out now...

thanks for the info, local Samsung shops in southern Philippines (Cagayan de Oro and Cebu) only display Samsung series 3 gaming monitor. I'll ask the salesperson the next time I visit either of those cities.

 

[Deltree]

I've been a PC gamer since I had the game Vortex on cassette tape hooked into a panasonic keyboard which ran coax to my tv. Never have I been able to build a rig that was what you would consider modern. Until now. Behold.

MSI z97 Gaming 7 Mobo - 180$usd
Core i7 4790K 4.0 ghz - 340$usd
16gb G.Skill X Ripjaws - 80$usd
EVGA 750w 80+Gold PSU - 100$usd
PNY XLR8 240GB SSD - 115$usd
Coolermaster V8 gts - 100$usd
Coolermaster Storm Trooper case - 140$usd

Still choosing video card

 

[Deltree]

I've been a PC gamer since I had the game Vortex on cassette tape hooked into a panasonic keyboard which ran coax to my tv. Never have I been able to build a rig that was what you would consider modern. Until now. Behold.

MSI z97 Gaming 7 Mobo - 180$usd
Core i7 4790K 4.0 ghz - 340$usd
16gb G.Skill X Ripjaws - 80$usd
EVGA 750w 80+Gold PSU - 100$usd
PNY XLR8 240GB SSD - 115$usd
Coolermaster V8 gts - 100$usd
Coolermaster Storm Trooper case - 140$usd

Still choosing video card

Actually 140$ for the ram I got 4- 4gb dimms

 

[tipstir]

I don't buy just one PC now it's multi-PCs here tablets (40), netbooks, (2), laptops (2), desktops (5), NAS (1), WiFi All-in-one Color/Scanner Printer (1), LED Color Printer (1), enterprise managed router (1), enterprise manage layer switch (1), ubee D3 cable modem, HDHomeRun (2), No-Loss Power Rack Switch (1), (1), rack mount mini deck (1), LAN cables (too much to count). Let's say not cheap. Oh yeah HD LED 23-inch 1920x1080p Monitor's (2), 32GB of DDR3 XP 1600MHz RAM and couple of TB HDDs, WAVE Keyboard (2), Logitech G Mouse (1), Toshiba 2TB USB 3.0 HDD, (1) haven't even taken it out of the box yet lol. I have so much stuff I would need a long list. So it's over 5K so far. Could be more.. I didn't include all the new HDTVs which are connected to these PCs..

 

[cmbjive]

About $2,500:

Intel I7-3770K CPU
32GB RAM from Corsair (upgraded from original 16GB RAM also from Corsair)
ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe Motherboard
NZXT Phantom Tower
x2 Nvidia 780 GTX (currently only running one because my power supply is low)
750 Watt PSU from CoolerMaster
Antec Liquid Cooling System
Samsung 24" 1080p Monitor
Logitech Wireless keyboard and mouse

 

[Snowden]

Actually in a kind of twist on this question, I spent my reputation and freedom making over 1 billion dollars worth of hardware redundant. Beat that!

 

[Guest]

Hmm, let's see..

several intel xeon processors
several custom-designed motherboards from NEC
several pcie SSDs and dozens of server grade HDD
several nVidia Quadro
..aaand lot more

it's all worth about tens of euro..
oh wait, it's my previous project, server procurement for my client

 

[mosu]

Apparently, not enough!

 

[Burty117]

Well Guess I might as well add my list! These are today's prices though, I cba to go find what I paid for all this originally!

Case - £145.92
Corsair 600T Graphite Limited Edition White
Case Fan - £8.64
Corsair AF-120 LED White
MotherBoard - £143.84
Asus ROG Maximus VI HERO
CPU - £251
Intel Core i7 4770K
GPU - £340
Nvidia GTX 780 PNY
RAM - £143.52
Corsair Vengeance Pro 4x4GB 2400MHz (16GB Total)
CPU Cooler - £85.32
Corsair H100i
SSD - £155.09
Corsair Neutron GTX 240GB
HDD 1 - £157.16
Western Digital VelociRaptor 1TB
HDD 2 - £102.24
Western Digital Black 2TB
PSU - £143.52
Corsair AX750

Then lets add the other stuff!

Screen - £342.32
BenQ XL2720Z
Headset - £189.90
Sennheiser G4ME ZERO
Keyboard - £122.57
Razer Blackwidow Ultimate Stealth 2014
Mouse - £104.68
Razer Ouroboros

So overall in today's money... £ 2435.72
Convert it into dollars... $4048.09

Bare in mind I got this all over a year ago now... well most of it... Man the prices have gone down quite a bit on a lot of this

 

[Tekkaraiden]

I can't remember the exact number but I usually spend $500 whenever I upgrade.

 

[Guest]

I would say you are all crazy but I spent over $4000 on a mountain bike
Recently upgraded my pc
i7-4790k
CM Hyper 212 cooler
Z97 Gigabyte Gaming-7 MoBo
8gb Kingston Hyper X 1866 RAM
Corsair 750w PSU
all for around 700 bucks.

 

[Guest]

Amd 6300, going to get 8370 wen it comes out ths month =)
2 R9 270X crossfire =) , might upgrade to 1 R9 290x or 290 havnt decieded
msi 970 mobo, goin to upgrade to asus rampage Z
8GB Ripjaw Ram, upgrading to 16 gb soon
antec 650 liquid cpu cooler upgrading Corsair H50
ENERMAX OSTROG case, upgrading to NZXT 810 switch or phantom
5 corsair High Performance Edition High Static Pressure fans love these things

 

[lripplinger]

I am running the following and have found no reason to upgrade (exceptions noted below):

Computer Case: Lian Li (Lancool) PC-K7B
CPU: Intel i7-860 Quad core (8 threads) @ 2.8GHz
Motherboard: Asus P7P55D-E Pro
RAM: 8GB Kingston DDR3 1333Mhz
CPU Cooler: Scythe Katana 3 (did replace the fan on it as it was worn out, only a few bucks)
OS: Windows 7 Pro 64bit
Power supply: Corsair TX650
SSD: Samsung 128GB 840 (replaced original Intel X25-M 80 GB SSD)
HDD: 500GB Western Digital Caviar Blue
Graphics: MSI GTX660Ti Power Edition 2GB (replaced original XFX AMD Radeon HD 5770 1GB)

The system before I upgraded the SSD and GPU was about $2200 in 2010.

 

[Guest]

Got my self a Lenovo z710 laptop for 921$ that's my gaming rig.. lolol


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