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Poll: how much have you spent on computer hardware in your lifetime?

YOyoYOhowsDAjello

YOyoYOhowsDAjello

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Please include family purchases as well in your total.

My family started by dropping 4 grand on a computer in 1993 and now is about $10,500, just wondering how our budget compares to others out there.
 
my dad has spent TONS of money in computer hardware

we have tons of AT computers in the basement here


he bought 4 sticks of 1mb ram for like 500 bucks a stick he was telling me, lol




Ken
 
Personally? About $5000 (within the past 4 years). If you count my dad, add another $4000 (this goes all the way back to the Apple II days, and our first Mac). If you count my brother, put him in the "over $25,000" category.
 
I'll just start with my first homebuilt, with EVERYTHING, including speakers, etc etc came out to ~2500...so i picked that one.
 
You want me to go back to the TRS-80, Apple II, and 8086 I owned way back when? I have no friggin idea nor do I want to think about it. More so what scares me is how much money I spent on drinking while I was in the Mairne Coprs.........I hate when people bring that one up.
 
I don't even really want to guess. :Q

Being a FS/T junkie for 3 years didn't help much.
 
More than I want to add up and figure out. At least $10K in the last 5yrs... actually the last 2 yrs <$500 but the 3yrs before that I was crazy. Was upgrading something almost every 2 weeks it seemed. Then I started visiting HotDeals and all hell broke loose. Then I got married and bought a new home and now my PC Budget is next to nothing. 🙁

 
Being a FS/T junkie for 3 years didn't help much.
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Tell me about it. It's kind of hard to come up with a figure as I always sold used parts to pay for new parts. These days with the Hardware being able to handle any software and not being a gamer I haven't had the urge to upgrade. I have a P4 1.6A OC'd to 2.1 Ghz and I really don't see any reason to upgrade. I mean what's an extra 300 to 400 MHZ going to give me that I already have? Who gives a rat's ass about Benchmarks, that's for no life geeks without a clue.
 
$1k-1.5k for me. I have only built 3 computers for myslelf and they have all been pretty cheap (but still fast) My 21" monitor may push me over the 1.5k mark, but I bet I am still slightly below it.
 
In my lifetime?? 😕
I guessed at $9-10k, give or take, though it's probably more.
I remember spending $2500 building a Pentium 200MMX system back when that was the bomb (and later putting dual V2's in SLI in it), and I've built and owned many systems before and since. Nowadays I try to keep my "hobby" in check by not buying quite so close to the bleeding edge... 😛
 
probably 5 to 6K. near there sounds about right. of course a month before i wen to college my mom bought the first PC that we paid for and i didn't include that. it was like 2400 i guess. the previous ones were all stolen, essentially.
 
Man I'm only 17 but personally i'be spent about 2500 altogether.... so here I am, sitting in front of this computer.

I shoulda just saved my money to buy a freakin car.... ugh.... DAMN YOU HOT DEALS! 😀
 
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