What are the most expensive computer parts you've bought?

[T9D]

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[takeru]

$660 for a Dell 1110 21" CRT monitor back in 97. still works great though.

 

[wota]

$500 for a 15" sony trinitron monitor back in 1995
$300 for a 6.4gb ibm deathstar back in 1997 or 98
$300 for 2x128mb of infineon sdram back in 99
$100 after a $200 rebate for a 120mb tapedrive.

FFFFFFFFFFFFffffffffffffff

 

[TecHNooB]

$270 for one of those must-have AMD Opterons

 

[ultimatebob]

$800 for a 17" Sony VAIO Triniton monitor with built-in speakers and subwoofer back in 1998. It was obscenely overpriced... but SO totally cool for it's time

 

[FeuerFrei]

$333 for my 19" Hyundai L90D+ LCD in 2005. 5:4 aspect ratio.

Nothing else comes close.
I try to stay around the $100 price point for my components.

 

[Lonyo]

£220 for a Geforce 4 TI4400, not sure what it equated to in dollars at the time, probably around $350.

 

[manowar821]

Video cards are usually the worst. Last one cost me 500.

 

[rivan]

I spent ~$800 on my first hard drive, a 10 MB, if I recall. Within 6 months there were 20s and 40s on the market and the value of mine plummeted. I learned then never to buy the bleeding edge.

 

[ggnl]

$300ish for the ATI 4870 im using now.

 

[darkxshade]

Originally posted by: effowe
~$1200 on a Dell 2405 Monitor when they first came out.

Same for me, except I paid $812 shipped for it in March of 2006 when I heard the 2007's were faulty.

 

[erub]

$700 upgrade on a Dell from 15" to 17" monitor (CRT of course), 1996
$600 19" Samsung LCD

 

[Aikouka]

$650 for a GeForce 8800GTX on launch day. Stupid piece of shit was busted right out of the box and malfunctioned for over a year until I finally replaced it with a quality ATi part. Never thought I'd ever utter that last phrase.

 

[NaOH]

prob my amd 3800x2 i think it went for 384 back in the day.

 

[silverpig]

$800 for a 2005FPW
$450 for a GF256 DDR

 

[dbk]

$270 for a 2x512mb corsair ddr pc2700 some years ago

 

[Electric Amish]

Around $400 for an ATI Radeon X1850

 

[thescreensavers]

CPU- Intel Prescott 3.4ghz was when it just came out expensive it was.

I will also note that it was a great space heater.

 

[Hail The Brain Slug]

$600 on a Dell 2408WFP... $480 on a 7800GTX..... $350 for 2GB of DDR400.... $350 for an X2 3800+

 

[OCGuy]

The two video cards in my sig were ~$850 total
CPU was $300+

 

[ViviTheMage]

600 or so for a 32" westinghouse LCD

 

[BlueAcolyte]

$300 for an 8800GT.

 

[AVAFREAK182]

Honestly, I but almost all my parts used on the forum. That being said I bought an E8400 when they came out for $200.

 

[SparkyJJO]

~ $425 on my Viewsonic VX2025wm in 2006
~ $230 on my Asus A8R32-MVP deluxe in 2006
~ $400 on my X1900XT in 2006
~ $160 for 2x1GB g.skill DDR-400 in 2006

And to think I got a HD4870 that kicks that X1900XT around for less than half in 2008 and got 2x2GB DDR2-800 G.Skill PI for $50 this year.
That LCD was a great purchase though, I still use it.

 

[mugs]

~$400-500 on a 1.2 GB external SCSI hard drive around '95
~$400 on a refurb 17" Dell LCD in 2003

Generally I stick with midrange parts. I buy bargain monitors, because I couldn't tell the difference anyway. I shoot for < $100 motherboards and < $150 processors. ~$50 video cards.