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

Lol. Whats the annual budget of new zealand?

sod it, some people spend it on cars or guitars or drink or travelling, i just spend it on my PC!

 

gtx560 - £180 (good old today only )
1TB F3 - £40
Cyborg v7 x2 - £100 (godamn cat + cup of tea)
CM Storm - £30
Fans/TIM/stuff - £30
5770 - £30 (from a mate)
Titan Fenrir - £24
Be Quiet PSU - £60

Not as bad as i thought. Although if i'd had more money to spend then it would be more lol

 

I'll include peripherals but exclude anything for rellies' machines. It's all separate to the actual build in April 08 which was approx £500 in one go.

Flat Monitor
Extra 2Gig RAM
Soundcard
Radeon 4670
2x optical drives (1 replacement, 1 for new build)
2x HDDs
120mm Fan

Extra Router
Extra Switch
3x Keyboards and Mice Each
360 Gamepad
2x Headsets
5x USB Drives

That lot came to just over £540, £340 of that being the main parts and the screen, the other £200 the peripherals. So glad I dumped Ebuyer as their courier charges were a complete ripoff when I went back through them and padded out the total, had I found Bit Tech earlier I'd have easily saved £50-£75 without thinking about it via Scan or CCL. £55 on that extra router was the only real waste that wasn't used to the fullest.

£180 per year since building the machine, it was the GPU that shoved me over my annual average by £40 but it was worth it to get a good enough stopgap 2 years after the build, where I could make a 5770 the last card - but won't even bother with that if an AM2+ CPU might bottleneck it.

 

Hmm..(all approximate)
$180 for Zotac ION-ITX-A-U
$80 Corsair H50
$30 3x case fans
$110 Seasoning X650
$50 wires/ misc

So about $450?
That's just a bit less than I spent on my first computer.

 

my old rig 2 summers ago.
phenom II x 4 955 £140
some gigabyte mb £90
8gb ddr3 ram (was £50 a set at the time) £100
2xwd 500gb caviar black hard drives £ 100
antec 300 case £45
ocz psu £70

and recently my signature which was an ebay bargin £140 for the case mb and ram, upgraded the cpu for another £50 and the ram for another £50 new heatsync £35

sold my old rig for £300

bought my nikon d3000 £400

then within the last few days a 4u server case and some soundproof foam.

grand total of £1200 ish but more like £900 once you have factored in what I've re-sold.

not as bad as I though : )

 

£0.

Built my current rig at the end of 2008, and I only use it for gaming. It still does what I want it to, so until it can't run something I want it to it'll do me just fine.

Also I'm skint, and probably always will be