How did you guys save up for your PC?

[B16CXHatch]

Ummmm, I'm an adult with a job. Granted, my money gets split up among necessities and other hobbies (mostly video games but also my car). Usually I never purchase my parts all at once and I reuse what I can then replace the old stuff later. My current rig, only the motherboard, CPU, CPU cooler, case and fans are new. Everything else was reused. All the new stuff was bought over the course of about 2 months. Since I'm not in "must crank settings on newest AAA games" mode, I'm good with sticking to my older stuff for now. Most of what I'm playing now my laptop can easily handle.

 

And this has been the case with everything I've built. Even my first rig about 11-12 years ago when I was in High School, I plundered a few parts from my parents' PC. It was all aftermarket parts I had bought anyway but still.

[mcmad358]

I am in the process of saving up for a new build right now. Currently I am doing things around the house like: 

I painted 2 rooms= 200$ total

Cut the grass= 10$ each time

Installing lighting in my house: 10$ each 

Home carpentry

Christmas will help

Help from parents help

Actively looking for a job, but at 15, it is hard. Basically, just doing things around the house. 

[aajjeee]

by not spending much and working 5 days a week for a summer. actually it only took half of it but i waited until i had a lot saved up

[kajar9]

By having a job for which I had to use my personal car and got car compensation + fuel comp... I spent the compensation.... I hope my car doesn't brake any time soon =)

Total is more, because thunder phucked my motherboard once. But about 800€

[wxstunt]

Selling drugs 

[Thony]

Job, i still live with my parents (feeling bad about it considering my age...) so my expenses are low. Only needed two months to get all my gear.

[Atmos]

Oh boy, to buy the last big round of upgrades, new gpu, new case, new ram, new monitor, new hard drives, which totaled just short of 1300usd; I managed to get lucky, got a raise at work and ran into some money that fell out of my rather hefty college savings account, you know how it is, sometimes little bits just slip out, and you can't just put em back in, no once they hit the floor they're all dirty, you gotta use em right then and there.

[abberto]

I've never managed to buy my own. My parents bought me a laptop when I went to Uni and since then I've had that same laptop (around 5 years now). I am currently saving with the fiancee for our wedding and for a big holiday to Florida so still no saving happening. Once those things are done, I'll put the monthly savings for those into a PC fund and hopefully, seeing as my PC usage at the moment is everyday Excel and internet (YouTube) use, with Football Manager being the only game I play, it shouldn't take me too long to save for a half decent PC that I can upgrade as time goes by and as I start to get into PC Gaming (hopefully).

[NetifxSixteen]

am still saving up, just having small upgrades now and then.

[pbenologa]

Our company gave me the money I needed for my build

[Croum]

As I was building my computer, I had a thought, how did you pay for your computer? I payed for mine, it took 6 months, a paper round, good grades and chores to pull it off but I managed a pretty sick rig. So, how did you pay for yours? Did you get your parents/carer to pay for it? Did you pay for it yourself with some help? Or did you get a job to pay for your dream rig?

I thought this was a pretty interesting topic, let me know how you did it! - Croum   

[Goodman2265]

saved up for a long time

[Pyromaniac225]

I got a job once I turned 14 and worked for a year.

[Aytex]

Family

 

*Goes to korea*

 

 

Grandma: oh son u grow up so big boy, u want duh moneeee, I buy u anyting, I gib u da 1000 dolla

 

uncle/aunt: ohh u so big boy u want da moneyyyy, I gib moneyyy here habe duh $50000 stdy hard bekom doktor

[Tac127]

dont know

[rtpb5642]

PRESENTS

 

job

 

MORE PRESENTS

 

more jobs

[Notree]

taxes

[thekeemo]

It's not mine.

[iamdarkyoshi]

I got a free dual xeon mac pro with 16GB of ram, and so I traded it for watercooling stuff. I got two PCs from the same place, each one had a 3930k, asrock extreme9, 64GB ram, dual SSDs, 1KW PSU, gtx 570, and a 650D. both pcs cost me a total of 600 bucks, so I sold one for more than I paid for both, and kept the other. The GPU I got by selling two flatscreen tvs I scored for free and fixed. So thats that.

[finn3732]

steal..

 

 

 

im just kidding

 

saved up maney for my rig from birthday money and grandma money

[Guest Ranterbach]

Got a job, didn't buy random shit for a few weeks. My first full personal build was a barebones bundle that went on sale on Newegg. AMD A8-5600K, some MSI micro ATX mobo, 4GB of the shittiest RAM known to man, and a $20 Logisys PSU that had issues out of the box and died within a month. I added a 650 Ti to that build, then eventually upgraded to the build in my sig. Before that I poked around and "upgraded" a couple family PCs, and built a PC for a friend that didn't trust himself to do it alone. 

[Luraguse]

Oh and I spent almost £1k on my laptop, imagine what I could have built in a desktop

I did the same, I love my laptop, but my back needs a rest, hopefully I'll be building my desktop between November and December, I just hope that the exchange rate doesn't goes through the roof on the holidays

 

EDIT:

Lol, didn't see that this post was from 2013... I should drink my coffee before posting

[ConnorDahne]

Decided what I wanted, and saved my money.
Volunteered for every available hour at work, came in when someone would call out. 
Did without unnecessary stuff, switched to generic groceries, ordered basics and got second gpu/monitor later, stopped smoking cigarettes (that's a lie, I cut back lol)

Bright side, can many people say building a gaming pc got them a promotion at work? lol

[Ivelin__]

I saved my lunch money. £3 a day, 5 days a week.

It took a while...

Me too, but 2 bgn(bulgarian currency, 2bgn=1€) and not everyday (for the 5 days a week), but with some help from relatives I had the 1200bgn to buy my PC.

[Ariito]

I worked at a computer shop when i was 15, and bought the components from them, saved enough for a $1100 build. Still using that computer to this day