Did you build your dream machine?

[ochadd]

What percentage of your income did you drop to build that ultimate gaming setup?

When I was in college, making about $10k a year, I some how managed to drop $2800 on a gaming rig. 28% of my gross income to play games not including the actual games... Really not sure how I made that happen but my family, collectively, received about $20 worth of xmas presents that year as a result.

My pocket book and additional common sense would prevent me from ever doing something like that again. Was fun as hell at the time.

 

[funkymatt]

i usually build the higest end desktop systems for work, doesn't cost me anything and I get the fun part of building it. 😀

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

yes I did. And it was painful. It wasn't a gaming setup though. Dual Xeon 2.4GHz processors, Supermicro X5DAE mobo, 2gb RAM, 10 hard drives. Ended up selling everything off for pennies of what I bought it for. Was damn fun when she was running though, so I can't say I regret it too much.

Do what makes you happy. Fuck the reality / logic of it.

 

[ericgomes]

Solid attitude Fullmetal. I shell out roughly $1,200 when I build a new computer every three-four years. All you have to do is upgrade every eight months.

 

[Eureka]

I'm in the process of building my dream system right now... of course my dream involves keeping the budget under 1k.

 

[Sea Moose]

Originally posted by: cevilgenius
I'm in the process of building my dream system right now... of course my dream involves keeping the budget under 1k.

Haha i dream of keeping the price of the graphics card under 1k!

I just built my first machine and i bought parts mailorder, so i generally saved up and bought the best bits a couple at time.

Only one way to learn is to do it!

I am very happy with the outcome, there are some things i would do different.