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Most spent ever on a computer rig?

J

Juno

Lifer
Inspired by Spikesoldier's thread.

I'm hoping there are no reposts.

I spent $1,907.38 on my computer rig. Of course, I spent to replace some parts and to upgrade it. Most of that money came from my pocket. My first computer was IBM Aptiva 133mhz and mom paid $2,200 for that... Ouch.

$1,907.38 seems a lot to me. :Q
 
i think $2000 for a pentium pro 200. overclocked that bastard to 233, and with the notable addition of a voodoo 3 card it played q3 pretty well.
 
2 grand, back in the day. only cause my company had a PC purchase program and wouldn't let me build one on their dime (they covered 20%).
 
$4K for my first ever computer in 1995.

I'd have to do the math for my current rig... I haven't bought/built a 100% new computer for myself in almost 3 years. I just upgrade as needed and reformat every couple months.
 
Late 1999. P3 - 500mhz, 20gig, 256k RAM, printer, 17" monitor, keyboard, and 98SE. Whooooo! $1500 Still using monitor, keyboard, and speakers.

Upgraded the "box" to A64, new board, vid card, 2 hard drives, case, DDR, OS, for $900.
 
dad's old pc that went to office

pentium 166?

$2000

monitor

$3000

and it was a MONOCHROME DISPLAY!! can you say RADIATION CANCER?!?!

my current computer costs about $1500 . . . im going to upgrade to a desktop soon
 
about $1400 for a k6/2 300 with a Velocity 4400 & 2 Voodoo2's in SLI and a gb of ram. That thing screamed when i made it.

It is now my firewall. ouch. Still runs though, goin on 7 years (built in '98)
 
Somewhere around $12,000, I think. That would have been either for the Alpha Micro AM100 full-height S100 based system (chassis and boards are twice the hight of most S100 boxes you've seen), with CDC Hawk drives (about the size of a narrow washing machine, with a 5-meg fixed disk platter and a 5-meg removeable cartridge...the read/write head assembly on those things weighed seven pounds, so you knew when they were working hard). I used to run that in my bedroom closet (noise reasons) and have RS-232 cables strung to everywhere I wanted a terminal. I always had either two or three terminals on my desk and one next to the bed--which, oddly enough, I mounted in an old radio cabinet.

When the AM-1000 series came out, I replaced the AM-100 with one of those (upgraded to a 30 megabyte full-height hard drive and one meg of memory, the maximum that model could handle), and I'm not sure which of the two actually ended up costing more.
 
Originally posted by: Trygve
Somewhere around $12,000, I think. That would have been either for the Alpha Micro AM100 full-height S100 based system (chassis and boards are twice the hight of most S100 boxes you've seen), with CDC Hawk drives (about the size of a narrow washing machine, with a 5-meg fixed disk platter and a 5-meg removeable cartridge...the read/write head assembly on those things weighed seven pounds, so you knew when they were working hard). I used to run that in my bedroom closet (noise reasons) and have RS-232 cables strung to everywhere I wanted a terminal. I always had either two or three terminals on my desk and one next to the bed--which, oddly enough, I mounted in an old radio cabinet.

When the AM-1000 series came out, I replaced the AM-100 with one of those (upgraded to a 30 megabyte full-height hard drive and one meg of memory, the maximum that model could handle), and I'm not sure which of the two actually ended up costing more.
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I call shens

Please post a pic saying "Yes, Nik . . . this really is my computer"

😛
 
i think about 1200 building my pc for college.... now its just a continous growth of upgrades and such....

next upgrade is dual proc, dual video cards and about 4 gigs of ram... but im waiting for the technology to shift
 
$5000 for a Pentium 120 with 16 megs of RAM, 1.2 GB hard drive, 4x CD-ROM, DAT, and a 17" monitor. Was certainly awe-inspiring back in 1995.
 
Originally posted by: Trygve
Somewhere around $12,000, I think. That would have been either for the Alpha Micro AM100 full-height S100 based system (chassis and boards are twice the hight of most S100 boxes you've seen), with CDC Hawk drives (about the size of a narrow washing machine, with a 5-meg fixed disk platter and a 5-meg removeable cartridge...the read/write head assembly on those things weighed seven pounds, so you knew when they were working hard). I used to run that in my bedroom closet (noise reasons) and have RS-232 cables strung to everywhere I wanted a terminal. I always had either two or three terminals on my desk and one next to the bed--which, oddly enough, I mounted in an old radio cabinet.

When the AM-1000 series came out, I replaced the AM-100 with one of those (upgraded to a 30 megabyte full-height hard drive and one meg of memory, the maximum that model could handle), and I'm not sure which of the two actually ended up costing more.
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I'll believe it when I see a pic of you holding a piece of cardboard saying "Yes, Nik, no bullsh!t"
 
Originally posted by: Amol
Originally posted by: Trygve
Somewhere around $12,000, I think. That would have been either for the Alpha Micro AM100 full-height S100 based system (chassis and boards are twice the hight of most S100 boxes you've seen), with CDC Hawk drives (about the size of a narrow washing machine, with a 5-meg fixed disk platter and a 5-meg removeable cartridge...the read/write head assembly on those things weighed seven pounds, so you knew when they were working hard). I used to run that in my bedroom closet (noise reasons) and have RS-232 cables strung to everywhere I wanted a terminal. I always had either two or three terminals on my desk and one next to the bed--which, oddly enough, I mounted in an old radio cabinet.

When the AM-1000 series came out, I replaced the AM-100 with one of those (upgraded to a 30 megabyte full-height hard drive and one meg of memory, the maximum that model could handle), and I'm not sure which of the two actually ended up costing more.
Click to expand...

I call shens

Please post a pic saying "Yes, Nik . . . this really is my computer"

😛
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😛 Don't have any of them left. Back then, computers didn't depreciate like they do now, and I could still get thousands of dollars for a used one even after several years. I've got boxes of documentation and probably a small assortment of dumb terminal parts left over, but I moved those into an old barn on a rental property I own years ago. I didn't have computer mice for those systems back then, but after being stored in a barn for several years, they might have mice now.
 
Originally posted by: Trygve
😛 Don't have any of them left. Back then, computers didn't depreciate like they do now, and I could still get thousands of dollars for a used one even after several years. I've got boxes of documentation and probably a small assortment of dumb terminal parts left over, but I moved those into an old barn on a rental property I own years ago. I didn't have computer mice for those systems back then, but after being stored in a barn for several years, they might have mice now.
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Nice 🙂
 
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