POLL: What's the Most You Paid for PC Hardware

[erub]

my family has spent over 3K on two systems:

Dell 386, 80 meg HDD, 2 meg of RAM, 5.25 AND 3.5 floppy (top notch, i tell you ) - 1991

my next desktop - didn't get until 1997 was:
Dell Pentium 200 MMX, 64 megs of RAM (huge amount of RAM for Win9x at the time), 4.3 gb hdd, 12x cdrom, 33.6 modem, 17" monitor, AWE32 wavetable sound

pretty stupid to spend all that $ on hardware and then wait a few years to upgrade

CD-Burner: HP 8100i 4/2/24 - $399
Athlon 650 Slot A - $300

oh yeah, my sister got a $4000 laptop 4 years ago, and is still using the same one...of course now its a piece of trash

 

[Joe2Cool]

$180 for K6III 400mhz (sept. 99')
Learned and look what i got now! the duron 750(a month ago) only coz me 45 bucks delivered! Sh!t, buy the lowest mhz/$.

or my VC, which i got for 95 bucks and saw at the computer show 3 days later another brand with same features for only 65 bucks!!!!! it broke my heart!:frown:

 

[serialb]

About US$1200 for a complete 8088-AT genuine IBM system. Not too long ago though, about 13 years ago when I was 10. I was too young to remember the specs on that piece of crap. All I can remember is the dual 5.25" floppies with no hard drives and the Turbo button. Oh yeah, and that awesome CGA monitor from Thomson with a video-in.

Had a really good time with it and that was how I learnt all the DOS commands.

 

[cherrytwist]

Before I learned to build my own, I bought my first system from a friend for $1200.

17" Digiview ($300 bargain)
K6 233mhz
6.4gb HDD
64mb SDRAM
33.6kbps modem

Prior to that I was a "part owner" of my family's first PC which was a Magnavox and cost right around $1000.

14" crap monitor
386-sx
4mb Ram
40mb HDD
5 1/2" Floppy
no modem (later added a 14.4 woohoo! my first internet experience!)

 

[Nestico]

Dumbest: Probably $300 or so for a 3.8GB Maxtor HDD (biggest drive at the time)

Smartest: $225 for a NEC 19" (retailed for $399)

I dumped a lot of cash into my case mods too, but they don't get obsolete as quick as other hardware.

 

[goshdarnindie]

$200
Philips CD Creator 2X
But that fool paid for itself since I was the first one on the block (or in the university) with it. When DVD-R gets reasonable enough for me, but two years out from everyone else, I'll do it again.

 

[rudder]

$600 for a brand spanking new 14.4 US Robotics modem.

 

[Nestico]

Ouch!

The place I worked for spent $800 for a 2x Phillips External Scsi CDR

 

[troglodytis]

~$400 for my 900ift.

great purchase! haven't spent over 150 for any other piece.

 

[Linh]

~$800 for 19" Hitachi Superscan Elite back in ~95.

 

[mithrandir2001]

$850 for a 210MB hard drive. (Don't ask, it was 1991.)

 

[bigd480]

Heh- i feel ya, I bought that same drive for about $320... felt cool as hell though at the time...



<< When the ATA66 format first came out I jumped the bangwagon and bought the biggest and fastest drive at the time which was an 18GB western digital 7200RPM ATA66 drive... it sure did break the bank at a whooping $520 price tag! I don't know what I was thinking! Man that sucker dropped right down to about $200 in a matter of several weeks! Boy does it hurt to see depreciation in action >>

 

[zimu]

$2500 on a 386 33 MHz 200 MB HDD... back in the days

 

[Vincent]

I spent $600+ for a tape backup and some tapes.

 

[ManSnake]

$150 for a stupid ATX case.

 

[tkim]

pI 166
32 mb ram
cd rom
ati 2mb vid card
soundblaster
atx case
hp 7XX
17 sony tube moitor (vetically flat)

about 3500


what a joke!1 i got ripped!!!

 

[arod]

$500 for my refurb HP P1100 21&quot; monitor about 2 yrs ago... still going strong

 

[Jumpem]

$800 for a P-2 450 when they first came out. ~$3300 for my new computer.

 

[tagraff]

January 1997:

My first computer

Packard Bell Pentium 200 MMX, 32 MB RAM, 3.2 GB Quantum Fireball Hard drive, 16x CD-ROM (one of the first to sound like it was taking off), horrible sound card/33.6 modem combo card, integrated S3 ViRGE graphics -- $2000

17&quot; Packard Bell Monitor -- $800

4 year Circuit City Warranty -- $260

Wisconsin Sales Tax -- approx. $160

Total Cost -- $3220

Knowlege gained from upgrading most of the pathetic components -- priceless.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Built first system in 1994
Dual 486/66 (Daughter Board from Evergreen)
17&quot; Viewtronics Monitor
32 MB Ram ($40/MB)
540 IDE Drive
1GB Quantum SCSI
2X SCSI CD
28KB Modem
Elsa VESA Video Card

$7200 when everything arrived and S/W tallied up

BUT it still ran rings around a P90 1 year later using NT 3.1

 

[NiceGuyEddie]

Pinnacle DC1000DV capture card, I paid $1400 for it

 

[Cooltech2k]

Like $3000 for my 486 packard bell back in the day... With a whopping 4mb ram &amp; a 540mb hdd &amp; Alot of other crappy stuff I Cant remember...

 

[Electrode]

$5000 for a complete PC, back in 1995. All I remember:

(*=still works)

Monitor: 17&quot;
*CD-ROM: ACER 6x
*Keyboard: Huge Mitsumi AT
Hard drive: Western Digital 1.2GB
RAM: 16MB EDO
*Sound card: ESS Audiodrive ISA
*Printer: HP DeskJet 660C
Mouse: 2 button MS serial mouse
Tape drive: Colorado 1400 (pre-HP)
CPU: Intel Pentium 120MHz
Video card: Cirrus Logic something-or-other PCI
Modem: Some 14.4 ISA modem (maybe USR, don't remember)
*OS: MS-DOS 6.22/Windows 3.11

 

[loosbrew]

168 for my 900mhz tbird back last october. good deal then, but now theyre like ~85!

loosbrew

 

[mchammer187]

$318 on a 15&quot; viewsonic LCD
it should be here today

before that a Elsa Gladiac GF2 GTS $260

paid 1900 for my Athlon 800 Slot A last August