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AstroManLuca

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Jun 24, 2004
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GeForce 6800 for $270
32" LCD TV for $450 (though it's not really a computer part)
Original 5 GB iPod for $400 in 2002

Come to think of it, I haven't spent more than $270 on any one component. That was the most expensive graphics card I ever bought (since then all I've gotten was a Radeon HD3850 for ~$170 a year ago). My CPUs have all been cheapo AMDs.
 

geno

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Dec 26, 1999
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~425 for my monitor, followed by a plethora of $350 or so video cards.

EDIT - scratch that... I almost forgot I paid about $475 for my 19" CRT Viewsonic about 11 years ago. Goddamn that thing was sweet. I couldn't sell it for $15 at a yardsale this past fall, so I ended up donating it.
 

grohl

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I paid $1100 for a Dell 2707 when they first came out. It really is the best monitor I have used and I think its the perfect size for gaming.

I paid $420 for a 6800 GT.

Having said that, my last Q6600/4850 build was only $850 total. I am much more budget conscious now.
 

Oyeve

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Oct 18, 1999
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I once spent 1200 on a SCSI cd burner. It was external and burned at 1x. Still have it too. Blanks cost like 50 bucks. This was circa 97 or so. Ordered blamk through the company I worked for. Told them it was work related. :)
 

Muse

Lifer
Jul 11, 2001
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The 17" Nanao CRT monitor I bought in 1994 or so cost me ~$1000, and I had to drive ~40 and pick it up at a warehouse. I still have it (but don't use it). Actually, I bought an HP4M printer about the same time for $1300 slightly used. Would have been ~$1700 new. Oh, also around $1200 for Lenovo T60 laptop around 2 years ago.
 

rh71

No Lifer
Aug 28, 2001
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$700-ish for a 27" LCDTV (what I'm staring at right now) but this was back when they first started making them... COMPUSA sale... couldn't resist.
 

hanoverphist

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Dec 7, 2006
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spent 10k on a proprietary EEPROM one time. literally took a govt sanction to force that one. the dumb thing is the only thing added from the original was one friggin input.
 

Oyeve

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Oct 18, 1999
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Ooh! Almost forgot! In 1987 I spent 3000 on an Intel AboveBoard with a whopping 1meg of ram. The memory was in SIPP form and came in a long anti-static tube. I beleive it was either 16 sipps or 32. ANyway, this was back inthe day that if you touch the chip with a bare hand you basically killed it. Had to use anti-static gloves and wrist clips. Popped the memory in and ran the diag which literally too 8 hours and at least 2-3 chips were bad and had to be replaced. Ahh, good old LIMEMS days
 

wwswimming

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Jan 21, 2006
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Originally posted by: Chryso
In 1991 I paid $100 for 1 MB of RAM.

in 1988 my boss paid $5000 for 10 MB of RAM for a CAD workstation for me.

i bought a 21" CRT monitor in 1992. that cost about $1500.
 

Muadib

Lifer
May 30, 2000
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My current monitor, Dell 2408WFP was $550. That was my most expensive part for personal use.


 

CZroe

Lifer
Jun 24, 2001
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I probably spent a good bit on my PIII 500 at launch (whole system was $3,400 though I skimped on HDD) but the highest I can remember in recent years is the $530 PCP&C TurboCool 1KW or the dual GTX280 @2x$400 (does that count?). Other major purchases: 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 at launch (comparitively CHEAP), GeForce 3 at launch (as much as the newly released PS2), retail Pentium 4 with bundled RDRAM shortly after launch, Promise SuperTrak SX6000, 14x120GB WD drives, etc.
 

Hyperlite

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May 25, 2004
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personally, 270 for a 6800nu, 315 for a 22" LCD. My dad paid 1200 for a 15" Viewsonic LCD waaaaaaaaaaaaaay back when.