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

[rasczak]

Originally posted by: 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.

i'm the sme way now. screw bleeding edge. just not worth it. i spent $450 on an ATi aiw x800xt. that broke and i was able to find my current 7900gtx for around $100.

 

[dakels]

Well not including company purchases which were rather amusing, like a 300mb Seagate drive for $5000 or a $9000 Mac IIfx. For personal part purchase not including monitors which I have spent a lot on (calibrated CRT's when i used to do a lot of design), I think $1000 for a Protools PCI card was the most expensive part I bought for personal use. Funny prices I've paid for stuff was like $400 for a 5.25 disk drive for a commodore. well, parents paid.

I think the most expensive single parts (not complete systems as I've ordered $400k printers and stuff) I purchased for a company was Leaf digital backs for Hassleblad cameras. 5 megapixel, $50,000 per. I think this was about 11-12 years ago.

 

[AAjax]

I seem to remember paying over a grand for my hard drive on the trusty ole' Amiga.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I think my 24inch monitor was around $700. (2006 I think)
Otherwise in like 1998 or 1999 I bought a 19inch CRT for $400.
4.3GB Quantum Bigfoot hard drive for around $300 in like 1996ish
32mb PC66 SDRAM was around $300 in like 1996ish.

 

[aceO07]

The most expensive is usually the monitor. The last 3 have been around ~$650.

17" Planar LCD
20" DELL UltraSharp
24" HP LP2475w

 

[dquan97]

Toshiba 50MHz laptop for $2k

 

[dbk]

Originally posted by: dquan97
Toshiba 50MHz laptop for $2k

http://www.tholt.com/toshtop.html this one?

 

[MotF Bane]

$1500 on my M1330 laptop, most expensive purchase ever for me.
$400 on a Foxconn BlackOps motherboard for a part.

 

[adairusmc]

Not counting laptops or anything, hmm.

$1100 for a P4 EE 3.2Ghz when they came out (dumb idea).

$999 for a Samsung 305T 30" monitor (Epic idea).

$550ish - 4870X2, 8800GTX, 9800GX2 - all not long after their release dates.

 

[richardycc]

around $1500 for a 21" CRT monitor in 1996.

 

[Jabbernyx]

Originally posted by: dquan97
Toshiba 50MHz laptop for $2k

I thought we were talking about parts only? If not, then I did regret buying a Thinkpad 760ED back in the day for $4000.

 

[BW86]

~$400 for an ati x850xtpe

 

[Koing]

Looks like I got the most spanked on this one...

£2100 for a Sony 23" lcd in 2002! Thats at least $3k! Then in 2005 I bought the Dell 2405 for about £700 or so? About 3x as cheap as the one in 2002...savage. At least I used the 23" lcd well at Uni for work, movies and the odd game.

Koing

 

[SlitheryDee]

Single most expensive part was ~$280 for an 8800gts 320mb. It was/is a great card, but I think I overpaid for it a tad.

 

[CalvinHobbes]

Got a 17" iiyama monitor back in maybe 92 or 93, it was around $799.

 

[lifeobry]

$190 for a 7600GT

I distinctly recall our family's first computer, a 486SX2, 4mb RAM, 420MB HDD monster, cost $1500

 

[Jabbernyx]

Originally posted by: CalvinHobbes
Got a 17" iiyama monitor back in maybe 92 or 93, it was around $799.

:shocked: Haven't heard that name in awhile

 

[Evadman]

Slightly over $1k for a CD Burner back in '97.

 

[thegimp03]

$322 for a x2 3800+ back in early '06. I had a $500 giftcard for it though.
I've paid in the $250-300 range for multiple videocards within a short time of each other - 9600XT -> 6800NU -> x850XT. Sigh...

 

[AlienCraft]

I once spent over $1000.00 for external SCSI CD-R drive and PCMCIA SCSI interface card for a Toshiba laptop I had running Win98.
This rig was so the band could run custom CDs for whatever Radio Station / press person needed a promo as we went out across the nation.

I also spent a bunch of money showing them how I could access the web through a cell phone on dial up. :shocked:

HEY ! It was 1998 ! It was'nt really stupid, just iincredibly geeky.

 

[Kirby64]

$400 for my NEC 20WMGX2 Well worth it, too I really want more space, but I <3 the clarity and color accuracy of my monitor

 

[Cheesetogo]

$775 for a Dell 3007WFP-HC (30" LCD)

 

[zerocool84]

$300 on a 6800nu and unlocked the pipes. Yea baby.

 

[cyclohexane]

~$700 on a Dell 3007wfp LCD

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Not counting my first computer (~$400 including monitor), the most expensive part I've bought is a GF6800 (vanilla) for $300.