How much did you spend on PCs so far?

[RockyRZ]

Well I got a MBP 13", so...

[IAnthonyFX]

7 hours ago, Dissitesuxba11s said:

Looking at the prices above, I don't feel bad anymore on how much I've spent. I have an Excel sheet logging my expenditure so I know exactly how much, but I'll still estimate: a little over $3,000 for computer related parts, and $1,300 on keyboards and keyboard related accessories.

what kind of keyboard accessories, I never even knew they were good stuff worth paying that much 

[Ja Krispie]

18 hours ago, Helly said:

$20k at least

 

also, this topic already exists, use the search and you'll find the old topic.

 

did it for you:

Click for the Old topic

 

Also, whats the point of a topic like this? Do YOU want to brag about the amount? Do you want to see others brag about the amount? As you can see from the old topic, people don't really care what someone else spends....

 

" This thread is quite old. Please consider starting a new thread rather than reviving this one. "

 

TO get back on topic now, for my main PC I've spent around 1200-1400 on it. Including monitor, peripherals and desk

[ShironifyHUN]

I had a Xeon X5450 build with a LGA 775 DDR3 motherboard + 8 gigs of ram and a GTX 750 Ti, it was a waste of money

Now I have an i5-3470 and I kept the ram and the GPU, but I'm looking to buy an RX 570

[mr moose]

20 hours ago, Helly said:

$20k at least

 

also, this topic already exists, use the search and you'll find the old topic.

 

did it for you:

Click for the Old topic

 

Also, whats the point of a topic like this? Do YOU want to brag about the amount? Do you want to see others brag about the amount? As you can see from the old topic, people don't really care what someone else spends....

 

That's quite the accusation YOU have there.   Especially considering how much YOU claim to have spent. Have YOU considered maybe the OP just wants to know what's average for the hobby, it maybe he simply has a desire to understand the financial component of the hobby.  

[Dabombinable]

21 hours ago, themctipers said:

laptop: 2.2k, 15$ T7600

desktop: 80$ ram, 250$ for a 760, -125 for selling my 1070 for more than I paid for it, 180$ SSD, 120$ SSD, 300$ HDD

The jump for me when replacing my CD T2600 with the C2D T7600 was insane...as was having a laptop from 2006 with 4GB of usable RAM.

[Helly]

1 hour ago, Psybadek said:

" This thread is quite old. Please consider starting a new thread rather than reviving this one. "

 

TO get back on topic now, for my main PC I've spent around 1200-1400 on it. Including monitor, peripherals and desk

 

6 minutes ago, mr moose said:

That's quite the accusation YOU have there.   Especially considering how much YOU claim to have spent. Have YOU considered maybe the OP just wants to know what's average for the hobby, it maybe he simply has a desire to understand the financial component of the hobby.  

My point with the old topic was to show that not many people reacted and the topic didn't go anywhere. Meaning people don't really care. If he just wanted to know the average, the old topic still could have given him some idea. The same idea he has now with this topic.

I'll admit i was a bit hasty in my reaction :P. I couldn't even find the topic with the normal search function. Had to search through my own reactions to find it, so the old one is a bit hard to find.

 

I do want to say i was pleased to see this topic be a bit more specific then the old one which was very unclear about what he/she wanted to know.

 

And about the amount i "claimed" to have spend. I've been buying pc's/hardware for over 20 years. It starts to add up. I actually think less then $1k per year is not that much.

[mr moose]

1 minute ago, Helly said:

 

My point with the old topic was to show that not many people reacted and the topic didn't go anywhere. Meaning people don't really care. If he just wanted to know the average, the old topic still could have given him some idea. The same idea he has now with this topic.

I'll admit i was a bit hasty in my reaction :P. I couldn't even find the topic with the normal search function. Had to search through my own reactions to find it, so the old one is a bit hard to find.

 

I do want to say i was pleased to see this topic be a bit more specific then the old one which was very unclear about what he/she wanted to know.

 

And about the amount i "claimed" to have spend. I've been buying pc's/hardware for over 20 years. It starts to add up. I actually think less then $1k per year is not that much.

 

I just think because the OP is interested and people are responding then we don't really need to comment on it.

 

I don't even know what I have spent (been buying parts since 1992).   In fact I couldn't even say what I spent in the last year as I don't always buy just for me, I tend to spend up big around Xmas  and over the year I maintain about 7-8 PC's out of my own pocket for others.

[themctipers]

42 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

The jump for me when replacing my CD T2600 with the C2D T7600 was insane...as was having a laptop from 2006 with 4GB of usable RAM.

I had a T5600 inside of a Lenovo 3000 N100

I regret not buying the T7600 two years earlier, because that was my main laptop for a while before I got my T480 and T5600 barely chugged along running firefox quantum 

i945 is painful, 3GB of maximum addressable ram with a 64bit CPU... 

[Dabombinable]

22 minutes ago, themctipers said:

I had a T5600 inside of a Lenovo 3000 N100

I regret not buying the T7600 two years earlier, because that was my main laptop for a while before I got my T480 and T5600 barely chugged along running firefox quantum 

i945 is painful, 3GB of maximum addressable ram with a 64bit CPU... 

Better than Intel's other shitty mobile chipsets that could still only address 2GB RAM in 2008, when right back in 2006 you could get laptops with Nvidia chipsets+iGPU, which could actually handle 4GB RAM, and at higher clock speeds as well.

Can't even get my 2008 Asus laptop to work with 2.5GB RAM. And that's Socket P.

[Settlerteo]

Oh i really don't wanna know. It might make me depressed.

[Galion]

23 hours ago, DiamondCubeMiner said:

I record the prices of items I buy in PCPartPicker and for the last 3 years, and I have spent US$995.48 (probably more) on PC parts, spread across 3 different PCs.

How much did you spend on PCs?

USD$1325.99 for my workstation that was murdered at the airport, now spending another USD$1445.99  for another system

[Brennan Price]

I want to say I've spent somewhere between the £400 to £500 mark on my current build, honestly though, I can't really remember how much I've spent. Just thought I'd make a useless comment really. 

 

My build is from used though and it provides the power that I need so I can't really complain. I'll soon build my PC into a beige AT tower much like LTT's recent sleeper. I should then spend a lot more on it with a full water cooling loop and lots of mods. Watch out for a post about it  

[TheLaserCucumber]

last 18 Months, from most recent to oldest:

- 730€ for new Laptop
- 189€ for an RX 580 8GB

- 50€ for new PSU for HTPC

- 90€ for a Seagate Firecuda 2TB

- 20€ for Arctic Freezer

- 30€ new mouse and keyboard

- 50€ for +8GB RAM for my server

- 250€ for i7-7700 for my server

- 850€ for new Laptop

 

2,259€ Total

(2,592USD)

 

I think I missed some purchases, but that's enough already

Additionally I'm looking forward to upgrade my PC to a Ryzen 7, so there's that

[Pasi123]

I've spent way too much for my PC's.

 

Main PC (only current parts included)

Spoiler

 

Xeon X5670 - about 70€

P6X58D-E - about 95€

GTX 960 - 120€

4x2gb Dominator - 35€

2x4gb Kingston - 150€

250gb 750 Evo - 96€

2x 2tb BarraCuda - about 150€

4tb HDD - 100€

Define R5 - about 115€

PSU - 90€

Cooling - about 100€

 

And total would be about 1120€.

 

 

Secondary PC

Spoiler

 

HP Z400 (gen2) - 180€

Intel Xeon X5677 - maybe 60€

GTX 660 - 150€

6x2gb - i don't know

240gb SSD - about 90€

1tb HDD - maybe 60€

 

 

[duncannah]

prolly less than 100€ in 3 years (charger, mouse, ssd upgrade)

[Dissitesuxba11s]

9 hours ago, IAnthonyFX said:

what kind of keyboard accessories, I never even knew they were good stuff worth paying that much 

Limited edition, high quality keycaps, keyboard switch opener, wrist rest, switch lube, keycap stabilizers. It's mostly the keycaps that cost the most. Currently the most expensive set that I've bought is about $180.

[BLLDoesTech]

probably a little over $1000, do peripherals count?

[IntMD]

Since 2015 probably about £3k, maybe more... Since my first PC, probably close to £10k

[RejZoR]

I really don't know as it's an evolving thing. Last 2 purchases were Samsung 850 Pro 2TB at around 800€ I think and latest AORUS GTX 1080Ti for 800€ as well. I changed my case too now that I remember, but that was just 100€. When I want something I just buy it.

[dyamondz]

I don't know exactly, I think like 700€ in 6 years but I have to update everything except the graphics card.

[Zando_]

uh.... a scarily large amount. 

[RejZoR]

16 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

uh.... a scarily large amount. 

I mean, in last 2 years I spent 1600€ just on a SSD and graphic card. Most people have 3 generations of whole computers for this money. And I'm not even overdoing it with SLi configs or NVMe's in RAID0. Just a regular single device high end system. Then you see people with 4x 1TB NVMe in RAID0 pushing like 5TB/s and 4x Titan cards that cost twice as much as my car is currently worth lol.

[James the Broke Gamer]

well, originally, $400 but then it broke so i replaced so many things until I fixed it, that I had enough parts to build a whole other PC! lol so in total, around $680 but then I sold my first pc, so about $100 lol

[blitzilla]

-3500$ for my first ibm p1 300mhz

-1450$ for my p3 733mhz + 2 video card upgrade which was around 75$each

- 1200$ for my amd 64 3000+

-700$ for  amd b55 + 2 gpu upgrades 

- 500$  to upgrade de b55 to r3 1200

-300$for new gpu rx 580 8gb

 

+ all peripheral thoughout the years