Electric Amish
Elite Member
After a quick review, almost $20,000 since 2001... 😱
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ComputerWizKid
Golden Member
I remember getting a 10GB HDD for $99 back in 99-2000
SilentZero
Diamond Member
Don't sound very humble to me...another ATOT millionaire I guess. 😉
3700 since 02. Seems like less lol. Total computer hardware...if I had to guess...would be around 6k.
However, since I've started to work, I've changed. Money doesn't come by easy 😛 Its easy to think it does, but once you start to think about how much you'll earn over your whole career, it starts to hit you and you say "...oooh maybe I should think twice before I [insert wasteful spending]".
Case in point, I wanted, once I started to work, to buy brand new monitors. I've been using some MAG 19" I got on sale for 200 from Frys for 4 years now. I ended up, a year after that, a 19" (all 5:4 btw...) Hanns-G for 100 AR. The color reproduction on these guys suck. I can't get the two to appear ANYWHERE similar to the other. I'm not sure what is the real color either. On one monitor its too dark, the other it is too bright lol. It makes editing my photos a bitch...a TOTAL bitch because I don't know what is closer to real. So I promised myself to get dual 24" or 26" IPS screens ASAP and never look back. But here I am: still using them. And over this time I've thought about it more and more --> I'm just going to keep using these monitors until they literally break. I'm being faced with the same dilemma for my PC: I'm not playing anything that needs a great system. I have an x4400 with a 7900gs I made 2 years ago (yay for frys deals). It runs WOW (well...save for Dalaran, but that is because there are too many people there) and Dota well. If I play 'anything' beyond that, its stupid flash games that I find on ATOT.
Of course, I'm waiting for SC2. Once I comes out I'll resize my pc. I hope the computer (x4400 2 gigs of ram and 7900gs) is up to the task. I can't upgrade my ram beyond 2 gigs (the bad part about cheap frys motherboards 🙁 OR atleast this one). I'm hoping I can max out SC2 with my system. If I can't, I will probably see if I can buy a new video card and still make it out on 2 gigs of ram. If it is a ram issue as well, I think I will upgrade my PC and sit on that for a long time. If it can do SC2, it will do D3. Coupled with WOW and DOTA....the pc will do what I need it to do, and Blizzard will continue to have me by the balls.
Anyways the point of all this was as follows:
I'm getting more and more reluctant to simply keep up with tech. If it works, why spend more money and ugprade? True, it isn't the "American Consumer Way" which is to keep buying more new shit to replace our old shit...but I feel better about really using something to the point that I've earned my money back on the purchase.
However, since I've started to work, I've changed. Money doesn't come by easy 😛 Its easy to think it does, but once you start to think about how much you'll earn over your whole career, it starts to hit you and you say "...oooh maybe I should think twice before I [insert wasteful spending]".
Case in point, I wanted, once I started to work, to buy brand new monitors. I've been using some MAG 19" I got on sale for 200 from Frys for 4 years now. I ended up, a year after that, a 19" (all 5:4 btw...) Hanns-G for 100 AR. The color reproduction on these guys suck. I can't get the two to appear ANYWHERE similar to the other. I'm not sure what is the real color either. On one monitor its too dark, the other it is too bright lol. It makes editing my photos a bitch...a TOTAL bitch because I don't know what is closer to real. So I promised myself to get dual 24" or 26" IPS screens ASAP and never look back. But here I am: still using them. And over this time I've thought about it more and more --> I'm just going to keep using these monitors until they literally break. I'm being faced with the same dilemma for my PC: I'm not playing anything that needs a great system. I have an x4400 with a 7900gs I made 2 years ago (yay for frys deals). It runs WOW (well...save for Dalaran, but that is because there are too many people there) and Dota well. If I play 'anything' beyond that, its stupid flash games that I find on ATOT.
Of course, I'm waiting for SC2. Once I comes out I'll resize my pc. I hope the computer (x4400 2 gigs of ram and 7900gs) is up to the task. I can't upgrade my ram beyond 2 gigs (the bad part about cheap frys motherboards 🙁 OR atleast this one). I'm hoping I can max out SC2 with my system. If I can't, I will probably see if I can buy a new video card and still make it out on 2 gigs of ram. If it is a ram issue as well, I think I will upgrade my PC and sit on that for a long time. If it can do SC2, it will do D3. Coupled with WOW and DOTA....the pc will do what I need it to do, and Blizzard will continue to have me by the balls.
Anyways the point of all this was as follows:
I'm getting more and more reluctant to simply keep up with tech. If it works, why spend more money and ugprade? True, it isn't the "American Consumer Way" which is to keep buying more new shit to replace our old shit...but I feel better about really using something to the point that I've earned my money back on the purchase.
newnameman
Platinum Member
$29.99
Suspicious-Teach8788
Lifer
Probably 1 - 2k. I know my computer build didn't all come from Newegg. But whenever I want blank DVDs or flash drives, memory cards, ram, small components, it's almost always Newegg. I know all 6 HDs I've gone through for this computer came from Newegg, so that's easily $600.
oogabooga
Diamond Member
More than I thought.. I don't upgrade often and usually use fry's mobo/cpu combos when i do.
2645.89 since 1/13/2003
edit : heh this is kind of interesting to read. first order ever purchase from newegg? A cooling fan : fan
Hrmm, I'm pretty sure I bought that fan in response to a posting I made here right when I first joined... but my purchase date of 1/13 would conflict with my regdate of 1/14 in that case.
Regardless I started using newegg and AT at roughly the same time. That's right. I blame all you bastards and want my 2645.89 back.
2645.89 since 1/13/2003
edit : heh this is kind of interesting to read. first order ever purchase from newegg? A cooling fan : fan
Hrmm, I'm pretty sure I bought that fan in response to a posting I made here right when I first joined... but my purchase date of 1/13 would conflict with my regdate of 1/14 in that case.
Regardless I started using newegg and AT at roughly the same time. That's right. I blame all you bastards and want my 2645.89 back.
MovingTarget
Diamond Member
I think I ordered a shuttle motherboard from them a while back, but thats it. I'll be needing a new processor soon, so maybe I'll get something from there.
Around 2,000. First item was this for around 70.00 in 2001.
Visiontek GTS-V 32 MB
Fry's gets most of my money. :laugh:
Visiontek GTS-V 32 MB
Fry's gets most of my money. :laugh:
njdevilsfan87
Platinum Member
About $2100 since July 2006.
thescreensavers
Diamond Member
I got 10 pages fuck adding them up lol.
JohnAn2112
Diamond Member
A whopping $116.71.
ChAoTiCpInOy
Diamond Member
$8.46
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