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Hi

I'm new to this forum. I'm still student, so this year I only want to spend my money for a pet. Maybe a dog :] What's your?

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My medicine, it costs $6,300 but and my insurance only covers half of it. Thankfully I was almost at my out of pocket maximum for the year so it only ended up costing ~$600 and will be free each month for the rest of the year.

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My new PC.

I'm down over $1k so far this year, but a bit over $2k if I include EVERYTHING else that I'm reusing with it (monitor, SSD, peripherals, etc...) and I don't even have a new GPU for it yet... I'm still trying to decide whether or not I should buy the 590 or just wait until another new GPU falls to below the $300 range (In canadian rupees) in like a year...

https://pcpartpicker.com/user/TetraSky/saved/yJMmgs

 

This year I got the CPU, RAM, Motherboard, CPU Cooler, 1TB SSD, 240GB NVME, Case and PSU. (for a grand total of 1109.10$)

 

OH and I also bought a used laptop earlier this year for like, 400$, but I'm planning on reselling it soon.

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2019 Honda Civic hatchback sport touring. Distant runner up would be my Xbox One X + games. 

5800X3D / ASUS X570 Dark Hero / 32GB 3600mhz / EVGA RTX 3090ti FTW3 Ultra / Dell S3422DWG / Logitech G815 / Logitech G502 / Sennheiser HD 599

2021 Razer Blade 14 3070 / S23 Ultra

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The laptop in my sig.

 

 

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Hmmm, Ive spent a bunch of money this year on things but its been a bunch of stuff thats been like $500 or less, I spent $850 on a Chihuahua, that might be the biggest single purchase so far. If I lump it all together I spent like 3-4K on computer parts, but since I bought my GPU last year I think the biggest single expenditure for parts was maybe my distoplate that was like $450 after exchange and shipping

 

 

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1 hour ago, imreloadin said:

My medicine, it costs $6,300 but and my insurance only covers half of it. Thankfully I was almost at my out of pocket maximum for the year so it only ended up costing ~$600 and will be free each month for the rest of the year.

Check if your insurance plan has a drug deductible. If it doesn't, find one that does. If it has one that's too high, get a lower drug deductible or look at some drug savings plans. 

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Mine was my house. A little over 4K spent on repairs that I could not do myself. 

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Haven't had any real large expenses this year .. I guess college tuition was pretty expensive :P

other than that, I got a couple Switch games and some Joycons which do add up on price ..

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Picked up a cannon m50 mirrorless camera and this sweet leather chair on offer up for 25 I'm computing in pure comfort now.

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Probably my mortgage, if you consider the multiple payments a single thing.

Else, it was a new amplifier. I really don't buy a lot of expensive items.  

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Around £1200 on my PC so far, not including monitors or graphics card... a new memory foam mattress... some upgrades and mods to my car. Powder coated the wheels, added a reversing camera, painted and fitted a spoiler as well as a few other little bits and pieces.

System 1: Gigabyte Aorus B450 Pro, Ryzen 5 2600X, 32GB Corsair Vengeance 3200mhz, Sapphire 5700XT, 250GB NVME WD Black, 2x Crucial MX5001TB, 2x Seagate 3TB, H115i AIO, Sharkoon BW9000 case with corsair ML fans, EVGA G2 Gold 650W Modular PSU, liteon bluray/dvd/rw.. NO RGB aside from MB and AIO pump. Triple 27" Monitor setup (1x 144hz, 2x 75hz, all freesync/freesync 2)

System 2: Asus M5 MB, AMD FX8350, 16GB DDR3, Sapphire RX580, 30TB of storage, 250GB SSD, Silverstone HTPC chassis, Corsair 550W Modular PSU, Noctua cooler, liteon bluray/dvd/rw, 4K HDR display (Samsung TV)

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My Asus ZenBook that I bought this month for £529, it came with an i3-8130U and 4GB memory. I bought it as a replacement for my old notebbook, my new ZenBook has a beautiful 1080p IPS display and awesome features like a backlit keyboard and thin and light body. Not to mention the expandability which I took advantage of.

 

I then later this year bought an 8GB SODIMM for it for £46, which totalled the memory to 12GB, plenty efficient.

I also later decided to give it my old 250GB Samsung 850 EVO from my PC now that my PC uses a 500GB Crucial P1 NVME.

 

It's been a great machine so far, it's got nice specs after the memory upgrade, the storage upgrade, and now it's running Manjaro Linux.

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My new home...

 

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On 7/24/2019 at 4:17 AM, Andre36 said:

Hi

I'm new to this forum. I'm still student, so this year I only want to spend my money for a pet. Maybe a dog :] What's your?

Definitley my Mcintosh MA9000, £12,995 i payed for it. I need to work out how much ive spent on my new setup so far.

Edit: Working out how much ive spent on it, wish me luck: SME Model 15 turntable - 8,749, SME 309 tonearm - 2,450, Mcintosh MA9000 - 12,995, Power conditioner - 395, 5 NRG-Y3 power cables - 500 pounds, XLR's - 115, RCA's - 600, Speaker cables - 860, Bowers and Wilkins 803 d3's - 9000, Schitt YGGDRASIL DAC - 2200, Slightly nicer than most usb cable - 6, Clearaudio essence MC cartridge - 1,050, Primaluna EVO 400 pre-amp - 4,145, Sennheiser HDV820 headphone amplifier - 2,089, Sennheiser HD800s headphones - 1,400, so 8749 + 2450 + 12995 + 395 + 500 + 115 + 600 + 860 + 9000 + 2200 + 6 + 1,050 + 4,145 + 2,089 + 1400 = £46,574 (still not done, still got about 6 months pay from work to blow on audio)

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Main speaker setup is now;

 

Mini DSP SHD Studio -> 2x Mola Mola Tambaqui DAC's (fed by AES/EBU, one feeds the left sub and main, the other feeds the right side) -> 2x Neumann KH420 + 2x Neumann KH870

 

(Having a totally seperate DAC for each channel is game changing for sound quality)

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I went for a 2019 Dell G3, which had a solid sale going on.  $1,058 for a 9750H, 16GB, 512GB, 1660Ti and a 144hz panel.  It outmoded my previous mobile driver, a 2013-era Alienware 17" clunker.  4770H, 16GB, 1TB SSD, and a GTX 770M.  Dead battery, dying GPU, motherboard brought back to life by re-soldering some components and replacing others. 

 

Moved the 1TB SSD into the G3's open, and pleasantly surprised to find, equipped 2.5" drive bay. 

Sure, it's not a balls to the wall machine, but as a mobile daily driver, it will do it's job just fine.  It's my secondary machine behind an X99 platform desktop with a pair of 1080s in it.

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2.6k euros for a PC+monitor. 

Even had to loan some money from friend for couple of moths, so I could pay for rent, food etc. 

Worth? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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depends on how you define expensive. 

as in pure price over all ? then probably car insurance :D or does that not count? then probably the suit i bought for my cousins wedding next month.

but if were talking about expensive for what something is or in other words - overpriced then definitly the 9 € sata cabel i just recently bought 4 of.

"You know it'll clock down as soon as it hits 40°C, right?" - "Yeah ... but it doesnt hit 40°C ... ever  😄"

 

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1 hour ago, Cora_Lie said:

My new home...

 

to me this suggests that you paid it in one go. if you did then DAMN but if youre financing it one way or another i dont hink that is what was meant by OP

"You know it'll clock down as soon as it hits 40°C, right?" - "Yeah ... but it doesnt hit 40°C ... ever  😄"

 

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This year, so far, my yard.  Fence, trees, bushes, landscaping.  10k so far... 

 

Although ask me again in a few months when the baby arrives and I have a feeling it'll cost me more than my landscaping.  ?

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Probably just my 2080ti, $999 USD 

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  • Display(s)
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