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I've spent so much money on my computer....

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demenion

Golden Member
I used to be all about value & price / performance... spending 600-700 max on a rig that lasts me a year or two.. celeron 300a@450, barton 2500@3200.. etc.. 9500np -> 9700.. unlocked 6800nu's, etc..

For some reason, I just went crazy on my last upgrade.

Here is a quick calculation on how much I've spent so far over the last two months.. prices are what I paid with shipping included. (I did alot of research.. spent alot of time in the hot deals and F/S forum)

Opteron 170 $371
DFI Ultra-D $125
2GB G.Skill ZX $190
eVGA 7800Gt $339
72 GB Raptor $120
300 GB Maxtor $130
Fortron 450PSU $52
P180 $122
Scythe Ninja $50

that's about $1,500!

I am moving to watercooling and spent even more money!
Apogee Block $40
MCP 655 Pump $85
Blackice Xtreme 2 $45

Nearly $200 for watercooling equipment..

Oh wait:

For some reason I need a new power supply.. why not get a new case?

Lian-Li V1100 Plus $200
PC Power and Cooling 520W SLI $150

About 2K for everything... i've been selling my old parts.. but i'm still crazy for spending so much money on my computer 🙁

Worth it? NO WAY... especially the extra $600 im spending on watercooling + lian li/pcp&c.. it will maybe improve my overclock 100 mhz 😛

Fun? YES! what a expensive hobby...🙁

My plan is to keep the Lian Li + PSU for atleast 2-3 years... (however i don't think that is going to happen with my impulsive buying habits).
 
ouch... i spent 170 on a vid card and i dont plan to upgrade for many many years.. almost killed myself for spending that much money (i have a budget system) 😛
 
My current box I got umm....almost 3 years ago? P4 2.8, gig of ram, only really new part is the X800XT which is going on 9 months old now.

Next project is a new case/PSU, swapping out my Corsair LLPT memory for 2GB, and I think that's about it. Sometime over the next year or two I'll finally get around to upgrading to an AMD based system (last one I had was Athlon XP 1800+) and play with CrossFire.
 
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the upgrade im getting this Xmas is

2.4b P4 to AMD64 2800+

keeping my 6800 NU

1.5gbs ram [going from pc2100+ 1gb and 512 2700 ram to pc3200+ 1gb and my old 512 stick]

new Psu, new s754 mobo



im hoping this will give me good results since my p4 mobo is 4x agp.
 
Originally posted by: tfcmasta97
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You forgot to add thickness
 
Well, you asked for it 😉
I just built a new rig for much lower than that and it's still pretty spiffy (see Valar).
About the only upgrade I'll do is a new vid card next summer.
 
Thats not bad. I bought/built this for a early x-mas present to myself a few months ago:

AMD64 X2 4400+ toledo
Asus A8N-SLI Premium
4gb OCZ RAM
XFX Geforce 7800GTX "overclocked version"
6 x 300gb seagate SATA HD's
PC Power and Cooling 510 SLI
2 x BENQ DVDRW drives
Hauppauge PVR250 w/ sage
Audigy 2 sound card

2 x Dell 2405FPW's

And thats not to mention the antec case, better fans, heatsink, cabling, XP PRO, etc

I dropped over 3,400 on hardware and extras, then another 2k for the 2405's.
So prob. around $5,400 on a computer a few months ago, when I spent almost that last year this time on my last system. It's an addiction!
 
Originally posted by: SilentZero
Thats not bad. I bought/built this for a early x-mas present to myself a few months ago:

AMD64 X2 4400+ toledo
Asus A8N-SLI Premium
4gb OCZ RAM
XFX Geforce 7800GTX "overclocked version"
6 x 300gb seagate SATA HD's
PC Power and Cooling 510 SLI
2 x BENQ DVDRW drives
Hauppauge PVR250 w/ sage
Audigy 2 sound card

2 x Dell 2405FPW's

And thats not to mention the antec case, better fans, heatsink, cabling, XP PRO, etc

I dropped over 3,400 on hardware and extras, then another 2k for the 2405's.
So prob. around $5,400 on a computer a few months ago, when I spent almost that last year this time on my last system. It's an addiction!
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What kinda case did you end up getting? I was looking at one of those Stackers, I got 3 harddrives and a DVD burner, I wanna get a front card reader too.
 
Originally posted by: Sphexi
Originally posted by: SilentZero
Thats not bad. I bought/built this for a early x-mas present to myself a few months ago:

AMD64 X2 4400+ toledo
Asus A8N-SLI Premium
4gb OCZ RAM
XFX Geforce 7800GTX "overclocked version"
6 x 300gb seagate SATA HD's
PC Power and Cooling 510 SLI
2 x BENQ DVDRW drives
Hauppauge PVR250 w/ sage
Audigy 2 sound card

2 x Dell 2405FPW's

And thats not to mention the antec case, better fans, heatsink, cabling, XP PRO, etc

I dropped over 3,400 on hardware and extras, then another 2k for the 2405's.
So prob. around $5,400 on a computer a few months ago, when I spent almost that last year this time on my last system. It's an addiction!
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What kinda case did you end up getting? I was looking at one of those Stackers, I got 3 harddrives and a DVD burner, I wanna get a front card reader too.
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I went with the P180. Lots of room and it holds everything great.
 
Originally posted by: Sphexi
My current box I got umm....almost 3 years ago? P4 2.8, gig of ram, only really new part is the X800XT which is going on 9 months old now.

Next project is a new case/PSU, swapping out my Corsair LLPT memory for 2GB, and I think that's about it. Sometime over the next year or two I'll finally get around to upgrading to an AMD based system (last one I had was Athlon XP 1800+) and play with CrossFire.
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I'm with ya brotha! 😉 Except the thing is, I still have my 9800pro from 2.5 years ago... I plan to upgrade to 2GB of ram when I can find some low lantecy 2.8v dimms to replace my 3-4-4-8 PC4000 TwinX modules... And of course, replace the video card *hopes for an even higher end video card than the X850XT.....
 
Originally posted by: SilentZero
Thats not bad. I bought/built this for a early x-mas present to myself a few months ago:

AMD64 X2 4400+ toledo
Asus A8N-SLI Premium
4gb OCZ RAM
XFX Geforce 7800GTX "overclocked version"
6 x 300gb seagate SATA HD's
PC Power and Cooling 510 SLI
2 x BENQ DVDRW drives
Hauppauge PVR250 w/ sage
Audigy 2 sound card

2 x Dell 2405FPW's

And thats not to mention the antec case, better fans, heatsink, cabling, XP PRO, etc

I dropped over 3,400 on hardware and extras, then another 2k for the 2405's.
So prob. around $5,400 on a computer a few months ago, when I spent almost that last year this time on my last system. It's an addiction!
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Are we having a penis mightier contest here?
 
Originally posted by: Ready
Originally posted by: SilentZero
Thats not bad. I bought/built this for a early x-mas present to myself a few months ago:

AMD64 X2 4400+ toledo
Asus A8N-SLI Premium
4gb OCZ RAM
XFX Geforce 7800GTX "overclocked version"
6 x 300gb seagate SATA HD's
PC Power and Cooling 510 SLI
2 x BENQ DVDRW drives
Hauppauge PVR250 w/ sage
Audigy 2 sound card

2 x Dell 2405FPW's

And thats not to mention the antec case, better fans, heatsink, cabling, XP PRO, etc

I dropped over 3,400 on hardware and extras, then another 2k for the 2405's.
So prob. around $5,400 on a computer a few months ago, when I spent almost that last year this time on my last system. It's an addiction!
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Are we having a penis mightier contest here?
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LOL Absolutely not. As a matter of fact, I nominate myself for the "biggest idiot" contest for such idiotic spending.
 
Originally posted by: goku
What is up with this surge of people all of a sudden buying opterons????
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A lot of the 939 pin Opterons overclock like crazy.. especially if you got a good week you can see upwards of 50% overclocks..

I basically turned my $371 processor into a $1000+ one.. My dual core is currenty overclocked to 2.9 GHz (didnt upgate my sig yet).. which is essentially dual FX-60+s... 😛
 
Originally posted by: Baked
It'll cost pennies in no time.
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LOL... QFT. I'm waiting for the supposed release of the R580 in spring.
An OC'ed X800 GTO keeps up well enough with the big dogs.
 
Originally posted by: WhoBeDaPlaya
Originally posted by: Baked
It'll cost pennies in no time.
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LOL... QFT. I'm waiting for the supposed release of the R580 in spring.
An OC'ed X800 GTO keeps up well enough with the big dogs.
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You've already upgraded and plan to upgrade AGIAN??? Talk about a waste of money, I'm still holding on to my 9800pro, and I hope to upgrade to the R580 if it's available in AGP form which ATM doesn't look like it will happen but they do have that bridge so...
 
i spent 750 dollars on my computer give or take.

$80 case
$50 motherboard
$180 processor
$275 video card
$80 sound card
$40 tv tuner
$35 hs/f
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$750ish or something.
 
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