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Work, Repair some stuff for family and friends and ask some money for the jobs and I buy some used hardware and build computers and sell them with a llittle profit.

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Job. Will always be a work in progress because this is my RTW (Reason to Work)  :D

Already spent around $2500 for CPU alone.

 

and demn.. Computex is making me itch again. 

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work and save, work and save, work and save...

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Saved cash and worked last summer 8-9 hours a day so i managed to get around 400 Euros. Father gave me the rest so the total cost with monitor was around 900-950 Euros.

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My dad. It wasn't much at first, but I was the only one in the house without a PC, and I am the only one who is so knowledgeable about them too haha. It was ironic till I got to pick out parts for Christmas. I made sure to build on a strict budget though, and upgrades YEARS later.

 

Back then I was playing not-so-hardware-draining games like COD:MW2, and Rollercoaster Tycoon 3, Napoleon TW, etc. 

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My parents owe me $200, so I may get that sometime before I'm 40...

I know how you feel! Thank God my parents paid me back my $150, but they still owe me $30.

 

My parents helped with my first computer, but now I have a job.

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I took money from my Uni and Driving accounts.

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By working my butt off at work =)

And I was buying something like once a week mainly because of availability of the parts and finding a place to buy them from, also didn't hurt the pocket as much.

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Got most of it from fixing iPhones and a little from my scholarship :/

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~1000€. Worked in a carpenters shop last summer, then build it last winter. I will probably work again, however this time I will buy a nice monitor and some more keyboard swag.

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I grew a money tree for a couple years.

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I owned a super beat up old bmw when I was 18, so eventually when I moved away from home I decided i'd be better off selling it than letting it rot in my driveway (it was on the verge of death anyway) - and so i used the 700 dollars or so to build my current rig!

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Lawsuit settlement, I was t-boned by a ford f350 in a small car my stepdad was driving, I got hit on passenger side. Permanent damage to my sacro-illiac joint, and some hip issues from it. Can't really do much nowadays so I built a computer to enjoy the fact I can barely walk lol 

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Still doing it... working for family, and getting a job, which im going hunting for today :D

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Still doing it... working for family, and getting a job, which im going hunting for today :D

good luck :)

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Job

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a good paying job with no bills

Cpu: Intel i7 4770k @4.4 Ghz | Case: Corsair 350D | Motherbord: Z87 Gryphon | Ram: dominator platinum 4X4 1866 | Video Card: SLI GTX 980 Ti | Power Supply: Seasonic 1000 platinum | Monitor: ACER XB270HU | Keyboard: RK-9100 | Mouse: R.A.T. 7 | Headset : HD 8 DJ | Watercooled

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never really got into build a computer till recently and I've been saving up money for a while.

CPU: Intel core i5 3570 Motherboard: Gigabyte-H77-DS3H Case: Fractal Design Define R4 Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB  GPU: MSI Radeon HD 7950 Twin Frozr III Cooler: CM Hyper 212 Evo RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB  PSU: Seasonic G Series 550W

 

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I started sending myself 20/30$ Amazon gift cards after every check last november, last night my balance reached 14k and i ordered all my stuff iG2orPY.png

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Earned mine from working as an underground hard rock miner

 

cost about 9k for everything on my desk

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I have a job. Sooo.... Regular income.

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