Very difficult to quantify - I never upgrade my entire rig, so you could argue my PC has evolved for the last 20 years. I don't think I want to know how much I've spent in that time, and I certainly don't want my wife to know!
Your wife now knows youve spent more than she would agree too spreadie matey, youve dropped yourself in it now matey assuming she does check this forum of course Im cant remember how much Ive spent on mine to be honest I know its a lot that much I can remember
As is right now, about 15K NAD (call it 1100 GBP) That said, I haven't spent a cent on it in 3 years or so. My laptops on the other hand, those that I don't game with are quite substantially more valuable (and more powerful in every single regard)
Current rig costing (sig out of date). Core i5 3330, 1TB WD hard drive and Asus H61 motherboard £140 on eBay in te form of a 'faulty' zoostorm PC. The fault being a botched Windows 8 image. Sapphire 6850 1gb. Cost me £130 new about 2 Christmases ago. Corsair 400w system builder PSU £40 ish Sandisk Extreme 240gb SSD £160 last May. 22" HP monitor was free Coolermaster case came with the first bundle. Windows 7 ultimate was free from work. Mouse was my brothers Gigabyte gaming mouse he was no longer using and they keyboard is a standard Dell keyboard (I love them know idea why). £470 in total... Oh and chuck another £30 on for system fans £500 all in.
About $850? It's hard to gauge because I usually recoup my costs by selling my old parts in complete systems. I've recooperated almost all my old part costs so I'd say approximately $1000 in the last 3 generations.
Not sure. i3 3220 - about £90. Motherboard - About £70 GTX 560ti DirectCUII - £157 Corsair CX600 - £60 Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz - £35 Samsung 830 128GB - £89.99 Monitor - £150 Mouse - £57 Keyboard - £49.99 Gelid Tranquillo - £25 Case - Thermaltake M9 (It's ****ing horrible and I regret ever getting it) £70 About £1000. give or take a few quid. I made some really bad choices
Add another £300 or so to my A05 rig after tomorrow - just gutted it to send for water jetting and powder coat tomorrow. Also have a new H100 for it and am waiting for 6x Scythe Gentle Typhoons to go in when it's rebuilt next week.
About 2K on this one. That doesn't count the monitors or periphs. That's just hardware in this build alone...
I spent £1900 on my first ever self built PC 5 years ago. This included a few other things like speakers, screen, routers, G5 mouse etc I had money to burn back then so bought the best case, 3x hd's, psu, rams, XF-i card, 12x sharkoons etc etc, bought lots of extra little things for modding the case also, a fair few of them never got used. It's always nice to have a box of PC goodies stashed away though. I put all the purchases through my business which saved a good chunk on the VAT, so this alleviated some of the horror when I used to think about how much I'd spent. Having said all that the screen, router, speakers, XF-i, mouse have lasted well and are all still in service now with my latest build. The case will last for ever upgrade wise. The psu died a few weeks before the warranty expired and it was replaced with a newer modular model. I sold my old gpu's for some cash. So realistically it was all money well spent. And, being able to play an awesome PC game on a large screen with 5.1 sound till the wee small hours makes the thought of the money (and anguish) spent just melt away into total happiness
It's honestly really easy to flip computer parts given the market is elastic but rather lenient on prices. I've had quite a bit of fun building a bunch of computers from my old parts and selling them off and making a small profit from it. Budget builds are usually massive amounts of fun.
