Other How much have you spent on hardware in the last 2 years or so? (Roughly)

I decided to try some of the less frequently used features on my PC like the calculator and ended up doing a invoice of what I have bought since I got the bug, (Dec 2008). This is only my Scan, Amazon orders and a few other larger items from other places like OCUK and ebuyer that I can remember buying from them but I did not do a full order history check like I did with Scan and Amazon
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I have also bought a lot of smaller stuff from ebay, 7 Day Shop and numerous other e-tailers throughout this 2 year period.

So far I am at £4551 and that is not counting a 32" Sony Bravia that I some time use as my screen.

This includes

Acer 6930 laptop from Amazon (For my son)

Packard Bell PC from PCWorld (Personal Use)

Self built PC (personal Use)

Self built Gaming Rig (For my son)

Self Built PC (My latest build for personal use)


I am far from being well off by any stretch of the imagination and it has come as a bit of a shock that I have spent so much especially as everything apart from the new build would only fetch me a fraction now of what I paid for it.

Do think you spend too much on hardware and shiny new goodies?


P.S. Roll on Ivy Bridge

 

Can't be bothered finding receipts but probably around a £4000, and that's not even with building a new PC! My rig is a 2 and a half year old i7. There's simply nothing worth upgrading to at the moment.

I replaced my GTX295 with a GTX580.
I built a home server with a hardware RAID5 card and 3TB of WD drives.
A RAID5 NAS with 3TB of WD drives.
A Eizo 30" monitor.
Replaced my motherboard.

 

I must be hitting £10k or so.
Including:
new Macbook Pro
iMac
3x i7 920 rigs
New HTPC
Server 1 (10TB space)
Server 2 (4TB space for backups)
The SAN (16TB & counting)

 

About 8k in the last 2 yrs...(Ouch!).

To long a list, but a few basics,

Dell 3008wfp
3x U2410
3x 580gtx
HD5970
i7 990x
i7 930
QX9650..Etc.

 

erm...
acer 20" monitor
acer 23" monitor
2gb ocz vlaue ram
2 or 3 hard drives
xfx gtx260 black edition
xfx geforce 9300 motherboard
silverstone tj08-b
intel core i5-2500
asus p8h67-m pro
2x2gb corsair xms3 classic pc3-10600
powercolor radeon hd 4890 pcs+
thermaltake toughpower power express 450w vga psu

around the £1000 mark which the wife would freak at if she realised lol although no-where near as bad as you lot

 

Lets see,

$600+ on tri display setup
$650 new laptop
$300 GPU

$1550 aint bad, lol. You guys and your 8k-10k are nuts!

I refuse to build a new rig now because my current rig can do what I need still.

 

about £300.

Windows 7 Professional OEM
LG 22" 1080P TV/Monitor.

I will be spending a few £££'s soon as I need to upgrade my socket 939 system.

 

Ouchy! Intresting thread. Not sure i can remember back 2 years tbh but i can jot down what i have paid out since the release of i5 ( Feb 2010) . Unfortunatly for me i have a girlfreind who 'loves' her PC.


Core i5 750
Gigabyte P55-UD3R
4 gigs Corsair Dominator (when it was expensive)
ATI 5850 XXX Edition
Corsair TX850 PSU
Corsair H50 Cooler
Shuttle SN78SH7 Barebone!
4 gigs of DDR2 ( purchased from a mate )
Single slot ATI 5770
Spinpoint F3 HD
AMD Phenom2 560
Antec P183
Vertex 2E 120 gig
Spin point F3 1 TB
8 gigs Corsair Vengance C8
Intel 2500k
Be Queit 530 PSU
Asus P8P67 Motherboard
ANOTHER 5850 XXX Edition
x2 Dell ST2410 monitors ( for me eyefinity that i got bored with well quick )
a few DVDRW's

and the one that hurt the most ....... a Dell U2711 Monitor


I would hate to add it all up, really i would i think i would cry my arse off as it seems i cant afford a summer holiday this year. If only i had not of bought the monitor ..... was it any better than the WFP2407 it replaced ..? In a word NO.


Please god help me stop this affliction of buying lots and lots of lovely hardware

So if anyones intrested ......

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320680545419&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT


Edit* OK so i was stupid enough to tot it up quickly and it sits roughtly £3200. Whats more ammusing is that last year i was unemployed for 7 months out of the year! :0

 

Oh god, I hope you guys are rich.... mines about £1500.

 

lol £500 HERE

 

Dell U2711 = £800
gtx 260 replaced by 5870 replaced by gtx 580 = 120 + 200
Ax850 PSU = £120
16GB RAM = £160
Synology Ds410j with 4 2TB drives = 250 + 300
parts for a media centre = £200
Logitech G51 speakers = £50
that's it.... i think....

total: around £2100.

but if you think about it, a good DSLR camera kit costs around this much in one go, so it's not the most expensive hobby.

 

too dam much thats for sure.

 

I built my i7 rig just over two years ago so.. a £12 Logitech keyboard and an 80p iphone dock

 

I agree, i may have to upgrade my gpu soonish. But everything else is still going well. Plus i dont have the money to spend atm

A new rig for my gf 400£, a new psu which I got for xmas, a new monitor (150£) as my IIyama one died and a new mouse and keyboard 40£

 

The difference is that in 3 years the PC-hardware is obsolete and worth nothing, whereas proper lenses don't get out dated and DSRL frames don't age too badly, either.

I think I've bought:
S775 mobo + 2*2 GB ram
2*1 TB hard drives and a gigabit switch
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300 EUR

After which I sold the mobo+ram+one HDD for 160 €, so grand 140 € from my pocket.

I can live with that.

 

Macbook Pro £750
My gaming desktop atleast £1000

 

most of my current rig, about 500 quid
Sony Bravia, another 500
3 or 4 other rigs for general use around the house, another 500
a q660, 65 quid
16GB ram (ish) 100
PSU's 100
Various parts that i can't resist, 200ish

over 2k for sure, but it's justifiable if i squint

 

About 600£. I use my pc for work purposes now so no need for Uber graphics cards etc.

 

£1650 approx.

Next purchase, barring failed part replacement, will be a £200-£300 28nm gpu upgrade... I'm hoping there'll be a game out to challenge such a part come september/october this year.

 

Around £1300 max I reckon. That includes the desktop, the server, and various bits 'n bobs like upgraded fans. And I didn't pay for the desktop in full either, with my brother sharing the cost. So probably closer to £500.