Most expensive piece of tech you ever seen

[radical guild]

I have seen a $50000/graphics card that only had component cables

[Starelementpoke]

1 minute ago, radical guild said:

I have seen a $50000/graphics card that only had component cables

 

Pictures of it didn´t happen.

[Dredgy]

Individual components? I've got Teslas in work supercomputers, they're around $10k apiece and there's dozens of them. I'm guessing the CPUs in those machines are around that pricepoint to. Got to play with $10k PC monitors, $50k camera lenses (and cameras). My TV was $15k when new.

 

Overall machinery? Easily in the several millions of dollars. Specialist medical and mining equipment mostly.

[ChrisCross]

probably the particle accelerator cern in geneve

destroyed my bank card and you cant fotograph in it because every camera gets confused by the interference.

 

and they use windows 95

[porina]

My friend at work. Actually, we have two of these. I put the order in many years ago and can't remember the exact price, but it is 5 figures. I think I saw one in one of the LTT videos when they visited another company but can't remember where that was. 

 

It is not unusual for speciality equipment to be expensive... some of the supporting gear is similarly priced as a system, but individual parts are less.

 

 

[Lurick]

Depending on how you define "piece of equipment" that can vary quite a bit. I've seen and held everything from million dollar 100Gb/s linecards to chassis loaded with linecards which total in the tens of millions. Right now I'm playing around with a traffic generation box with several 5x40Gb/s linecards that probably cost a few million alone as part of a large scale network mock-up that goes far beyond that in terms of cost.

[not_Linus]

Does the F-35 count?  Saw one of those at an air show and got to see it up close.

[Inimigor]

When I worked as IT Manager for a Cotton Research company the most expensive thing I ever saw was an Uniport 3030 Pulverizer Onboard Control Unit.

It costs 35.000 reais (around U$ 10.000) and it's just a Pentium 3 800mhz, but it has a custom firmware and OS, A TON of protection for water, pesticides, cotton and Dirt, and obviously a ton o sensors for ground level variaton, humidity adjustments, water flow and a ton of stuff I didn't understand.

Just this panel with the stick and buttons around costs U$ 1.300!!!!!