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thescreensavers

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For your first build how much was it and what were the biggest costs contributing to that overall cost.

My first Rig built in 2005

6800gt:$346.00
2x 1gig sticks of DDR400: $225.59
X2 4200:$483.99

1600 total




 
Mine built in 2004

mobile 2500+ barton core ~60
ati 9800 pro ~150
512MB memory (DDR400) ~70

I think it was like 500-600 bucks total
 
The first computer that I built was in 1999.
Cost about $1000 total.
$150 for a 10 GB hard drive
K6-2 or K6-3... I forget which. 400 or 450 MHz? Probably around $100 + another $100 or so for the motherboard
Another $100 or so for the 128 MB of RAM
$200+ for the 17" CRT
+ case, CD-RW, floppy drive, sound card, network card, video card, etc.
 
My birst build was a celeron 500 w/ Ti4600. Bought all the parts the day the Ti4600 hit the market. The Ti cost me $408 shipped 🙁
 
Too old to remember (seriously)! 😱

My first PC was 8086 Tandy running at 7.16MHz with 384KB of ram and two sexy floppy (5.25") drives. Cost $1600+. Added a 20 MB HD later for $379.

This was in 1987.

First build....not sure. I know that my 1st 1GHz chip (AMD) cost over $500! :shocked:
 
I don't remember...IIRC I paid $111.49 for 128mb PC133, somewhere around $100 for a 30Gb HD..I think I had an Enlight 7237 case, but don't remember how much I paid.

SLI Voodoo2's..those were the days.. 😛
 
Atari 800 that my parents got me. It was an obscene amount of money, but I don't remember how much. Probably well over $2,000 for the computer and accessories.
 
The first computer I actually built myself was in 2000, a P3-700mhz w/ a 40GB HD. I think it cost around $1.2k total with a CRT monitor?
 
If I recall my first build was about 2k. Was an AMD 2000+ machine with 1GB of ram. Back then 1GB was HUGE. Our very first computer was 3k and was a pentium 3. It was top of the line back then, now I would not even run a DNS server on that lol.
 
My 1st build looked something like this. Before that I had a retail system I bought from B&M for 2.5K, it was a Pentium 75. Shit was expensive back then.

Ps. Wow, I feel so old.
 
P4 3.06 w/ HT
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
512 MB RAM
big Antec case

That's about all I remember, it was about $2,200 if I recall correctly.
 
1994

16MB memory@ $60/MB - $960
Viewsonice 19" tube monitor - $400
SCSI 1GB drive - $500
HP Printer $200
Video card 8MB - $300
Dual 486/66 processor setup $1500
NT 3.1 OS - FREE
 
Let's see if I can remember -- it was 1995:

CPU (the brand new Pentium 120 Mhz) -- I think it was around $1000
RAM: 8 MB of EDO RAM: $375
HD: 1 GB drive: $350 or so
Video card: Matrox Millennium 2 MB -- I want to say $400 but that might be high.
"Multimedia' kit w/ sound card and CD-ROM: $350 or so

I don't recall the motherboard cost but would guess about $300 -- it was an Intel Zappa board.
 
I spent 400$ on some custom built 1.4ghz athlon system in 2000 or so. First one I really built myselt was close to 2000$ if you include the UPS I got. I don't remember what the breakdown was, but it was a athlon 64, gig of ram, beastly large antec case, 9800 pro, raptor drive + 250gb 7200 drive, 900W/1500V UPS, audigy2zs, and a plextor dvd writer.
 
Originally posted by: spidey07
I don't know, less that a grand easily.

Celeron 300 clocked to 450
3dfx video card
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Hell yeah! That celeron rocked!

1999:
Celeron 300, OC to 450 (512 was never stable for me, my roommate was able to though)
Abit BH6 mobo
#9 2D graphics (I think)
3dfx/Diamond Monster 3D add-in
probably 384MB ram
Soundblaster Live!
some dvd add-in decoder
network, etc...

I'm guessing it cost around $800 to $1000 when it was built

My monitor at the time (sony e500) was almost as expensive as the system. Thing lasted me for years though...heavy sonuvabitch.
 
My first computer was a C64 (with DUAL 1541s and a 300 baud modem, fear me!), first PC was a prebuilt 386sx. I upgraded that with a Cyrix chip, then built a full Cyrix 486 system. I have zero recollection of costs for any of it.
 
No clue how much it cost, but a pretty penny I'm sure.

Dual pIII 733 @ 1GHZ
4x256MB PC133
2x Maxtor Atlas 10K 18GB drives in raid 1
SB Live?
ATI Radeon 8500DV gfx card
 
i recall spending around 1500 for the following in 2003

Athlon 1.2ghz thunderbird
1gb ram
Geforce 2 Ultra
Asus ava266 mobo i think? had the ali magik chipset
40gb hdd and 60gbhdd
 
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