Erm, in my eyes, I still have the same PC as I had when I first built it when I was at university back in 1992. I have updated a few parts admittedly, like triggers broom, you want me to add all that up ?
My main computer now is my gaming laptop, need something mobile because im at sea for half the year, so I spent about £1800. My last desktop I bought about 8 years ago, P4e system which cost about 700 in parts at the time, then another 500 or so in upgrades over the years, swapped the original 9800xt for a 6800gt and then a 3850, extra 2 gigs of ram, new hdd, stuff like that.
Original Spec when I built it back in October '08: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ - £41.94 Asus Crosshair II Formula - £182.11 2GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer - £42.72 XFX GTX 260 XXX - £187.13 Enermax Infiniti 650W PSU - £105.15 500GB Samsung F1 - £43.35 Antec 900 Case - Free Scythe Mugen (Infinity) CPU Cooler - £31.60 Pioneer DVD-RW - £17.08 Sony Floppy Drive - £4.71 4x 120mm Cooler Master Fans - £23.36 2x Akasa SATA Cables (with EL wire) - £23.47 - A total waste, they didn't even fit the motherboard... Akasa Floppy Drive Cable - £3.51 Total: £706.13 Upgrades: AMD Athlon X2 > AMD Phenom II X4 955 - £97.86 2GB Crucial Ballistix > 4GB Corsair XMS2 1066MHz > 8GB Crucial XMS2 800MHz - Free XFX GTX 260 > XFX GTX 285 > Asus GTX 470 - Free Corsair Force 3 120GB - Free Added 500GB F3 - £36.44 Cooler Master Fans > Cooler Master Sickleflows > Bit-Fenix Spectres - Free Antec 900 > CM Storm Trooper - £99.38 Scythe Mugen (Infinity) > Cooler Master V10 - £20 - Absolutely horrid cooler the V10 Cooler Master V10 > Be Quiet! Dark Rock Advanced - £25 Asus GTX 470 > EVGA GTX 570 - £60 Total + upgrades: £1044.81 Adding in the various peripherals, screens and desks over the years, I'd estimate around £1500. Considering my PC at the moment is probably worth more in sentimental value than anything else, it's quite a lot.... This post was brought to you by illness and boredom.
Look, gentlemen, we all know I've spent a few pennies on PC parts, but trying to put a price tag on stuff? That's impossible! (Mostly because just my case was $600 USD. Let's ignore the goodies inside it.)
Not that hard to do : http://www.caselabs-store.com/magnum-sth10/ http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811163178
It's easily done. My last system; TJ07 + custom powder coating / spray painting throughout and roof mod approx £600 ($900) As for my new system, I would say over £2k (far, far more if I count up all the bits I broke / changed during the build)
I brought all mine in and around 2010-11 ,everything cost so much ! about £150 for memory you can grab now for 30 quid. iv learnt a valuable lesson... WAIT!
lets see Mobo rampage 4 - 350 CPU 3930k- 600 Ram 32gb gskill- 140 4 WD 1tb blacks- 400 1 Intel 180gb- 220 1 ocz 60gb- 200 2 xfx 6970s- 790 xonar stx- 220 xfx 1250 psu aka seasonic 1000- 250 hafx case and extra fans controler bluray drive- 380 keyboard and mouse- 200 3 dell 24" TN- 600 ergotron mount- 350 Headphones- 600 for the 2 pairs Reciever speakers dont remember/free Thats $5300 USD So around that, all cost more with shipping etc... so yeah not bad really. Wouldnt trade the sanity and fun it brings me for twice that. Cars still worth more however... thank god I was scarred there for a while.
€120 on my monitor. Got the rest from my parents. Though nothing to be jealous about. 2003 low-end hardware :/
£400 on a case is a piece of cake to rack up if you're modding. I've had 3 cases now that cost north of that. By the time my newest one (FT02) is finished, it'll be about £500.
My case was an Alienware Area-51 with all of the lighting, motors, system and 1100W power supply. Wasn't a bad deal.
HMMM. This feels a bit like an AA meeting but let's have a go I7 3770K - £250 ASUS Maximus V Extreme - £320 Corsair 800D - £220 2XASUS GTX Titan £1600 2X EK Waterblocks £170 Kingston Hyper X Beast 2400mhz 2x8 - £130 OCZ 1000W modular PSU - £170 Samsung 840 PRO 256GB - £210 WD Caviar Black 2TB - £150 ASUS XONAR D2X - £70 CUSTOM EK Water loop with Supremacy Elite and XTX360MM rad - £350 inc fans NZXT fan controller - £20 ASUS PB278Q Monitor - £550 Q-PAD MK85 - £105 So about 4.3k - I feel like it was closer to 4.5 though
I was just trying to find all the receipts for the bits I bought for my HFX case. Turns out my HTPC case, including the passive cooling bits and the VFD display, was nearer £600. Oh. Whoops!
I decided to give it a go, even if it will hurt me a lot. This is for Cerberus from the sig. Intel i7 2600K - 322.54€ ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe - 188.19€ EVGA GTX670 - 414.43€ G.Skill RAM 2x8192MB DDR3 1600 9-9-9-24, RipjawsX Series - 124.80€ Bitfenix Prodigy White - 71.94€ Samsung 830 256GB - £122.74 = 150€ at the time Seasonic X-460FL - 121.82€ Aqua Computer Aquaero 5 LT USB Fan Controller - 62.42€ Alphacool HighFlow D5 TOP - Black Acetal - 24.43€ Alphacool VPP655 Single - 68.57€ BitFenix Spectre PRO 200mm Fan - all white - 14.78€ Bitspower 1/4" Matt Black IG1/4" Extender - 4.86€ Bitspower G1/4" Matt Black 11mm ID Fitting (13x) - 65.36€ EK Water Blocks EK-Multioption RES X2 - 150 Advanced - 41.74€ EK Water Blocks EK-PSC Adapter 45 G1/4 - Black (2x) - 7.51€ EK Water Blocks EK-PSC Adapter 90-Degree 1/4" - Black (5x) - 22.32€ Koolance extension 20mm G1/4 on G1/4 - Black (4x) - 15.65€ Phobya Xtreme 200 - 200mm Radiator - 61.28€ Primochill tubing PrimoFlex Pro 16/11 (7/16'ID) white (2m) - 14.90€ Thermochill EC-6 Cooling Fluid - 1L Blue - 10.12€ Watercool HEATKILLER GPU-X3 GTX 670 - 90.96€ Watercool HK CPU LGA 1155/1156 Rev. 3.0 LT - White - 51.24€ Watercool S1156 Backplate - 6.83€ XSPC EX240 Dual Fan Radiator - 49.78€ Corsair High Performance AF140 - 14.12 € Corsair Quiet edition SP120 2pcs - 23.58 € Total 2044.17€... Well, actually i expected few hundred more .
